Difference in Custom The Causes of Racial Prejudice
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Macionis 2007: 372 also defines that discrimination as unequal treatment of various categories of people.
Discrimination is the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or arbitrary reasons.
Furthermore, Henslin, 2007: 9 argued that prejudice can be the background of discrimination, because negative prejudgment can stimulate individual or
group to discriminate the others. Discrimination can be done in every aspect of society. It can happen
in institutions, public facilities, and social relationships. Therefore, there are individual discrimination and institutional discrimination that are gotten by
certain people in society. There are many cases that describe the discrimination in society. As what experienced by African American in
United State when many American communities denied the same right to vote for black citizens. That is just an example of discrimination’s cases, and there
are still many cases of discrimination usually cannot make people get humane treatments.
Not only discrimination which becomes the impact of racial prejudice, but also oppression in society toward certain people. According to
Conflict Theory, prejudice is a tool by major group to oppress others Macionis, 2007: 371. Minorities are also more likely to be crime victims in
society. They can get violence or even killing from the other people hate them.
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The oppression has certain similarity with the other impacts of racial prejudice. They are very dangerous for social life, because those are actions
which are done by ignoring humanity in life. People who discriminate and oppress the others usually do in illogically way even in extreme way. They do
not humanize human. Despite minor people are not guilty, but they are always become scapegoat to legitimate discrimination or oppression.
Macionis, 2007: 371 added that they are safe target to be scapegoat in society.
Therefore, the researcher can conclude that racial prejudice leads some impacts in social life. It bores social distance among social groups in
society which has an extreme form, segregation, discrimination that treats everyone depend on differences they have, and oppression which ignore
humanity. There are three impacts of racial prejudice in the novel: