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11.0. "Prejudice" by TNPUBS::FORTEN () Mon Feb 17 1992 13:20

From:	TNPUBS::SALOIS "17-Feb-1992 1253" 17-FEB-1992 12:55:21.24
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Subj:	An Article on Prejudice...

From:	DELNI::WARNER "Seize the Day.  17-Feb-1992 1252" 17-FEB-1992 12:52:09.01
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From:	DELNI::STRUTT "CHRIS LKG2-1/X2 POLE Y2 DTN:226-7286  14-Feb-1992 1410" 14-FEB-1992 14:12:04.94
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Subj:	How Prejudice Develops


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From:	PIPPER::JRYAN        "Janna Ryan ACO/CTS Personnel"    5-FEB-1992 
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Subj:	GOOD READING - pls forward

     ***This message is from Ferdie McDowell***
     
     			How Prejudice is Learned
     
                                Stage I
     
        Prejudice is learned first from parents and then from an ever 
     widening circle of people and institutions, ranging from relatives to 
     schools.  It begins with the child grasping the concept that some 
     children are different from himself, more a matter of curiosity than 
     anything else.  Children get their first real hint of what prejudice 
     means from language, from certain powerful words loaded with emotional 
     impact.  It takes children time to learn to whom these words refer and 
     to completely understand their parents' rejections and hatred of these 
     categories of people.
     
     
                                Stage II
     
        The next learning stage may take place between the ages of seven 
     through eleven, and is characterized by the child's rejection of those 
     who are the objects of the parents' prejudices.  At this stage 
     researchers have found that the child tends to go overboard.  If 
     Blacks are the hated category, then the child blindly condemns all 
     Blacks.  A child at this point often says harshly bigoted things but 
     may still play with children of the group she/he is speaking against.
     
     
                                Stage III
     
        At this stage, the child, now a teen-ager, no longer claims all 
     people of the hated category have no good features and is willing to 
     concede them some good attributes.  But the behavior of the prejudiced 
     young person at this point begins to harden onto the familiar pattern 
     of adult bigotry that is shared by his or her family circle.  In 
     short, it takes the entire period of childhood and much of adolescence 
     to master prejudice.
     
     - Adapted from a World of Difference Teacher/Student Resource Guide