Theoretically Practically Research Significances

18 Marthin Luther King’s words explain to every person that there are inequalities in society. There are unfair policies toward another person in one nation, and those hurt everybody but giving many profit for the others who have power in the nation. There is no place anymore for people who are different and having colored skin. Despite people prefer interacting with people, who have similarities, they will still meet another person who has differences. Therefore, within their differences in society, people will face many problems which are emerged by themselves or the others. Consciously or not, people in society will establish social groups according to their similarities. They can be their similar thought, style, skin, the background of family, and still many causes can make people live in one unity. But it can create a gulf in the society among different people or social groups, if each of group exaggerates their own group’s trait, and looking at the other groups down. Therefore, social group’s problems will happen in society. The problems create some gulfs which separate somebody from the others in the society. The gulf which is created by individual against the other individuals, a group of people against an individual, or a group of people against another group of citizen in society will still follows people as long as they have big fanatic against their group. Thus, a social group that supposes better than another group makes 19 negative attitude in the society to show their superiority. For example discrimination, oppression, segregation, hostility, and there are still many problems appear in social life. If someone decides to live together with a social group, he might be affected by group’s opinion, agree, and follow the social group’s opinion, even defend it as the best opinion than the other opinions. There will be generalization opinion toward the others. There will be a rigid and unfair judgment against another group or somebody else, people call it racial prejudice. Racial prejudice can be experienced by all of humans in this life. All of us have a chance to feel that. It can be experienced by a group because of different from the other groups or individuals. This issue has become a root of problems in society.

A. Racial Prejudice

Prejudice is a rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people Macionis, 2007: 366. Prejudice derives from the word prejudgment, which implies that a person makes up his or her mind about something without any real knowledge about it. It can also be meant as prejudge of people in negative belief toward certain people because they are membership in a particular group in society. Prejudice can cause many serious problems in society, because it can lead discrimination, segregation, hostility, and oppression. So, we can also