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Bias Scenario Responses We all use of stereotypes without knowing it all the time. It is a learning behavior that we learn from the culture around us and enters our consciousness. In our society talks out loud about equality and justice as our own values, but at the same time such equality exists only as an ideal. This belief can be harmful as it leads to prejudices. There is still a great unconscious level of prejudice in our society. The overtly biased expresses through our expressions, our stance, our nonverbal communication, or eye contact we make.
Our beliefs, both consciously and unconsciously, can be very different and make unconscious assumptions. We sometime cannot control our reaction of our prejudices because we are not even realizing …show more content…

This kind of classification process to help analyzing, filtering the most important information and to make the decision process faster. When working with the families and children, I have to make sure that my own bias so that it will not be against them.
One of the incidents was happened in classroom. I was overheard teachers made a comment about one of a special needs child. I was very uncomfortable but I was not sure what to say. I was tongue-tied. I couldn’t laugh along with it and didn’t know to approach and point out that was prejudice and bias …show more content…

To form a proper social awareness of the concept of gender equality will be one of the conditions for the Gender Equality Law into life. awareness in society about the concept of "gender equality". The fact that today many people still have not understood the concept of "gender equality" and that gender equality is the equality of men only - women; inequitable gender equality means no equality between men and women. In essence, this is the one aspect of the concept of gender equality. In summary nature of gender equality is respect enabling both men and women together to jointly develop the most dedication to society and meet the needs of individuals. To form a proper social awareness of the concept of gender equality will be one of the conditions for the Gender Equality Law into

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“We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced,” said Herbert Spencer, a famous philosopher. Prejudice is frequent everywhere and difficult to stop. It is very difficult to destroy something in someone’s mind, and it will inevitably be expressed through various methods with different degrees of subtlety. Any expression of this can hurt. Subsequently, in Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, the main theme is that prejudice is everywhere, and can be of varying degrees.

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"We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we appeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational." - T. S. Eliot Personal bias is a strong motivator, whether we are aware of it or not. It can change the way we view a situation or event, just because of what we choose to pay attention to.

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When people hear World War II they immediately think of D-day, Germany, Pearl Harbor, etc. Think of the postwar era of World War II. It was a prosperous time for the economy and the military. There were some prejudices that arose from the Japanese-American internment. Also political standoffs that were to tense you could cut it with a dull knife.

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For example, a company may refuse to hire someone for a job, because of the basis of stereotypes. As a result, a particular person might avoid a part of the city associated with a certain ethnic group. Due to the stereotypes associated

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Most bias shows itself very discreetly hiding behind walls : ideas we may not know we have a bias about. While other biases are very up front and obvious, these are the prejudgments seen in everyday life. “While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, … there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.” (Richelle E. Goodrich) Our preconceived notions about others' appearance limit our ability to read people in the correct way because we are stuck seeing one thing.

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Everybody has unconscious bias. But what role does it play in our daily lives? And how does it affect us? In the TED talk “What Does My Headscarf Mean to You”, speaker Yassmin Abdel-Magied aims to encourage the audience to acknowledge that everyone has unconscious bias, and to look past their own bias in order to promote equal opportunity, particularly when it comes to the workplace. “We all have our own biases.

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