question archive Assignment: Prejudice and Discrimination Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice
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Assignment: Prejudice and Discrimination
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.—Michael Crichton, State of Fear
Prejudice is an underlying complex mix of mental perceptions and associated emotions and attitudes toward members of another group that often result in social distance and manifest in overt acts of discrimination. An important first step in addressing the roots of prejudice and discrimination is to trace the historical sources and the psychological reinforcements.
Submit a 3- to 4-page paper in which you do the following for both your historical example and your contemporary example of discrimination:
Please use proper APA formatting