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cultural awareness understanding

cultural awareness understanding

Q Discuss the differences between discrimination, stereotypes and prejudice. 2. Do you think poverty is a concern for students in school. Why or why not? 3. Are discrimination, stereotypes, and prejudice part of the K-12 system? Higher education? How big is the problem, if there is one, and what can teachers do about it?

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Stereotype refers to the behavior in which an individual develops a preconceived notion of a person and situation. Stereotyping comes from rigid bent of mind in which an individual cannot think out of the box, gets judgmental, and express immediate opinions. Discrimination refers to the practice of treating people unfairly and unequally based on certain parameters such as race, culture, ethnicity, gender and others. Prejudice refers to biased opinion that an individual have for a person. Individuals with prejudice behavior have a tendency to form biased opinions of a person and situation based on their own misconceptions (Baker, 2015).