Q:What is your defination of prejudice?
A:In my opinion, prejudice is a unfavorable opinion towards a person or a group of people with no evidence to support their generalized opinion. This results in being unfair to that specific group of people or person. It is a thought rather than an action
Q:Then what is your defination of discrimination?
A:Discrimination is the act of being unfair and/or unjust towards a group of people or a person due to prejudice thoughts.
Q:Is there a real life example of discrimination and prejudice around you?
A:In my opinion, discrimination and prejudice is still imminent in our society. Take for example, I am sure many of us still have the opinion that Indians and people from Bangladeshi are lesser than us, that they are dumb, stupid and are only capable of doing manual labour and are unable to jobs which require a certain amount of intelligence. People still tell racist jokes about how Indians are poor and that they are black. Prejudice and discrimination can be seen from the examples that I have stated.
Q:Do you consider yourself prejudice?
A:I find that yes I am prejudice, I share the opinion that many of us share which is the common thought of Indians and Bangladeshi workers, that they are dumb and incapable.
Q:If you see someone near you discriminating another person, what would you do?
A:The politically right answer is to go up and stop the one discriminating. However, it would be very awkward to go confront someone in the middle of a street, it would make the people around find you like a weird person and in Singapore, our “mian zi” is very important and most of us would choose to turn a blind eye and pretend that we didn’t see it. But we should try to summon the courage and help the one being discriminated.
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