Jambi Strategies To Reduce The Prejudice In The Community

Over the last 10 years, there has been downturn in the local economy along with increase of major arrival of refugees and immigrants from different Third-World republic areas in Jambia. The individuals coming from Jambia have experienced and complained about discrimination and tokenism in many different issues within the community, such as education, housing, employment, etc. However, some of the individuals who have lived in the community previously have voiced conflicting problems around these issues, such as declining property values, overcrowding in schools, and competitions for employment. The purpose of this essay is to provide in brief, a summary, targeted to the town council that will reduce the prejudice within the community. Within

It was suggested that tokenism was possibly taking place, which is the hiring for employment that is founded on group membership and can be shown through positively addressing the out-group, by hiring them, and then refusing a beneficial situation to them (Baron et al., 2009), from the immigrant and refugees residing in the community, by not addressing their cultural and ethnicity and communicating their job success by the skills they have (Baron et al., 2009). Another strategy is shifting the standards and relationships between the two groups (Baren et al., 2009). Baron et al. (2009) argues that as long as the relationship stays the same between the two groups, the stereotyping will be consistent. Therefore, a recommendation would be to comfort and challenge the relationships by building a common goal, increasing contact between the two groups, and re-categorizing and shifting the values and belief of the individuals (Baron et al., 2009). A way to address this is by finding individuals with power who can help shift these beliefs by example (Baron et al., 2009), especially since many people are around media, which holds powerful people to a high standard and when powerful people maintain these prejudice and stereotypes, then it can be negatively influential to the people viewing the media (Baron et al., 2009). Another strategy is minimizing the threat that the residents feel, since research suggests prejudice develops when there is a threat or competition (Baron et al., 2009). This suggestion stems from the theory, realistic conflict, which is when prejudice comes from a competition that occurs between two groups that are competing over limited and valued resources (Baron et al., 2009). In this situations, the resources include employment, housing, and