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Project Three: Social Psychology By David Myers And Jean Twenge

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Prejudice as defined in the book Social Psychology by David Myers and Jean Twenge is “A preconceived negative judgement of a group and its individual members. (2019)” The textbook goes on to discuss how prejudice is often accompanied by stereotypes which are a “belief about the personal attitude of a group of people. (Myers & Twenge, 2019)” Stereotypes often make generalized or oversimplified assumptions that aren’t accurate. A common example of stereotypes is assuming that all African Americans are poor and uneducated. According to the module 8 Lecture video, there are four consequences of Prejudice. These consequences are “Self-perpetuating prejudgments, Discrimination as self-fulfilling prophecy, Stress and …show more content…

The video starts out by depicting a late 20s to early 30s white male wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat. Some may view this as a stereotype or possible prejudice by saying that the video is trying to depict all younger white men as “MAGA” and Trump supporters since the gentleman is supposed to represent the perspective of white people. The audience may view this scenario the way mentioned as the controversy and issues surrounding Trump and the MAGA statement has led to it having a rather negative connotation for some. This individual starts rapping and makes mentions of black men choosing to “be dead beats rather than pay your bills. (Joyner Lucas - I'm not racist 2017)” These lyrics continue with comments and phrases such as “all you care about is rappin’ and stuntin’” as well as “you’d rather sell drugs than get a job…(Joyner Lucas - I'm not racist 2017)” This displays prejudice because these statements are not only negative but being applied to all black American’s as more of a blanket statement. This video depicts aggression by having the white male actor flip the other gentleman off, pace around him, get in his face and through the lyrics he …show more content…

The black gentleman is used as a representation of all black individuals and their beliefs. The gentleman proceeds to rap lyrics such as “this country’s ran by whites, judging me by my skin color and my blackness” as well as “tryna steal black culture and then make it your own (Joyner Lucas - I'm not racist 2017).” These lyrics depicts prejudice by once again being negative and assuming all white people hold these views. This portion of the video depicts aggression by having the black gentleman appear to be yelling at the white man, flipping the table, knocking his hat off, etc (Joyner Lucas - I'm not racist

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