Prejudice
An instance when I witnessed a
moment of prejudice was when an older gentleman in the grocery store made a
racist slur towards a Hispanic women who was in front of him in the checkout
line. The lady that the comment was made towards, heard the man and choose not
to correct him for his foul language.
In this incident the equity
between the two individual was lost when the gentleman thought he knew
everything about the women. In order for this situation equity to change the
women would have needed to stand up to the gentleman and let him know that he
was wrong and the older gentleman would need to recognize that his behavior was
unacceptable.
During this incident, I felt
awful for the lady. She didn’t do anything to the man and he was saying unnecessary
comments to her. When she didn’t say anything back, I wanted to interject for
her and let him know that behavior like that is wrong and he is just keeping a
cycle of prejudice going.
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