Adverse Reactions to Diversity – Portfolio exercise #4
Course: Cultural
Diversity Code: LSS N2053
Name: ID#
With a partner, please answer the
following. You may use internet resources to help you.
1. Define:
a.
Stereotyping
A
widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of
person or thing
b.
Prejudice
Preconceived
opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience
c.
Bias
Inclination
or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered
to be unfair
d.
Discrimination
The
unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially
on the grounds of race, age, or sex
2. Give an example of each.
a.
the city is too easily stereotyped as an industrial
wasteland
b.
prejudice resulting from delay in the institution of the
proceedings
c.
his work showed a discernible bias towards philosophy
d.
young children have difficulties in making fine
discriminations
Watch Class
Divided
ü Understanding
With partners, answer the following:
1. Where,
when and with whom did this experiment take place?
The experiment took
place in the school class room in 1970 with the teacher and the students
2. Describe
the experiment.
The
experiment is talking about racism and how the people skin color are different
than the white color where it’s the best skin color. Also how the people eye colors
are different than the blue eye and the people with blue color eye is the
smartest among the rest. This experiment was explained to the class students.
3. What
were the results?
The
class room students was confused and one kid disagrees with the teacher
4. How
successful do you believe it was?
It was
a successful experiment because it’s opened the children’s imagination and let
them think in a wider way.
Going
Deeper 
In groups of four, discuss the following:
Ø
a time she or he experienced prejudice or discrimination
Ø
a time she or he discriminated against somebody else
Ø
a time she or he
witnessed discrimination and did nothing
about it
Ø
a time she or he
witnessed discrimination and did
something about it
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