The document discusses prejudice and where it comes from. It explains that prejudice is judging someone without knowing anything about them, which can be influenced by family, friends, and media. Prejudice often comes from fears of those different in the past but now that people travel more we should respect differences. Religious prejudice still causes conflicts today. The document encourages recognizing prejudice in broad generalizations and considering how one would feel if treated unfairly for something they cannot control like race or religion.

2. NOT GIVING A 'FAIR GO'
• Sometimes we tend to make
unfair and biased
judgments of certain people,
religions, themes and what
else! We do this, because we
are not informed, afraid or
heard “testimonies” by others.
• We do this because we are
covered by a “warm blanket”
called IGNORANCE.
• But thankfully, if we open our
minds and are willing to learn,
we can easily overcome
prejudice and help fight it!

3. WHAT IS PREJUDICE?
Prejudice (say pre-joo-dis) is a • It seems a bit silly to have an opinion
word that means judging someone on something or someone you know
or having an idea about them nothing about!
before you actually know anything • Unfortunately, we don't always see
that we are being prejudiced.
about them.
• We don't always see that we have
strong ideas about certain people,
It can also mean having an opinion their culture or their religion.
about something without knowing • Unfortunately, we don't always see
anything about it. that we have been influenced by
family, friends and the media to have
ideas about something or someone
that we have no personal
experience of.

4. WHERE DOES PREJUDICE COME FROM?
• In the 'olden days' maybe it was understandable
that people would be afraid of another group of
people who looked different, had a different
religion and did things in a different way, because
most people lived and died in the place where they
were born.
• Nowadays, because people travel a lot, or go to
live in a completely different country, or go to
school with lots of people from different places, we
should learn to respect each other's differences.
• But sometimes these fears from the 'olden days'
are sort of passed along in families, and a kid may
find that he is being prejudiced against someone
of a different race, even though he doesn't know
that person.

5. RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE
 As you learn more about the world we live
in and especially about the wars that have
been fought, you learn that many of these
wars were about religion.
 One lot of people was trying to make
another lot of people believe in the same
god or gods that they believed in.
 Some countries are still fighting about
religion.
 Even today, we may talk bad things about
other religions, even if we don’t even know
what they preach or what they talk about…
Maybe they have more in common with
our own religion than we know!

6. RECOGNIZING PREJUDICE
 As soon as you hear people making
comments like, all men, all people of
one race, all girls, all boys, all people
with one ear bigger than the other, or
whatever, then you can tell that there is
some prejudice there.
 How can anyone know all people
who….?
If you catch yourself thinking stuff like that, then think.

7. HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF?
How would you feel if:
• kids didn't talk to you
• no one wanted to play with you
• no one trusted you
• kids were afraid of you
• you kept being told that you wouldn't
be smart enough, or big enough, or
strong enough, etc.
• you weren't being given a fair go
when they didn't even know you?

8. HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF?
How would you feel if: If someone is being
• kids didn't talk to you
• no one wanted to play with you treated badly because
• no one trusted you of their race, religion,
• kids were afraid of you disability or being
• you kept being told that you wouldn't
be smart enough, or big enough, or 'different' then that is
strong enough, etc. called 'discrimination’.
• you weren't being given a fair go
when they didn't even know you?

9. EXERCISE!
Write down two paragraphs on any of
the following subjects:
• Arabs
• Buddhism
• The French
• Poor people
• Jews
Don’t do any research! Just use what
you know about these subjects, and
then go home and research on them.
Find out how prejudiced you were.

10. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 Kid's Health. (n.d.). Prejudice - not giving a 'fair go'. Retrieved 08 28, 2012,
from Kid's Health:
http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=286
&id=2348
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