Invisible in Individuality In Prejudice in Intercultural Communication, Richard W. Brislin explains the differing accounts of prejudice. Brislin divides prejudice into six forms. For example, redneck racism is a group of people state that a specific cultural group are inferior to other cultural groups and not worthy of respect and decent treatment. Symbolic racism is similar to redneck racism but they harbor a negative attitude towards cultural groups that interfere with their culture. Like symbolic racism, tokenism is when a group of people harbor a negative attitude to a culture group, but do not admit it themselves. Arms length prejudice is when people engage in friendly behavior to a culture group in some situations, and opposite in other situations. Real likes and dislikes …show more content…
Being strongly opposed to the Brotherhood, he pushes for black separatism while bashing whites through the use of violence and riots. As of result, he changes his name to Ras the Destroyer. “I looked at Ras on his horse and at their handful of guns and recognized the absurdity of the whole night and of the simple yet confoundingly complex arrangement of hope and desire, fear and hate, that had brought me here still running … And I knew it was better to live out one’s own absurdity than to die for that of others, whether for Ras’s or Jack’s” (559). Confronted by Ras, he realizes his own identity in life is what will bring happiness and satisfaction to him, and not following the directions of Brother Jack or Ras the Destroyer. The throwing of Ras’s spear back at him further demonstrates his individuality breaking through and breaking the advice his grandfather says to him earlier in his life. Ras the Destroyer demonstration of redneck racism breaks the narrator’s invisibility and creates the startup of the narrator’s next life with his new identity; his