From the text book, prejudice is an unfounded attitude toward an outgroup based on a comparison with one’s ingroup. Honest speaking, I don’t like Hong Kong people. They are kind of rude and shameless towards the people from the mainland of China. When I was in high school, there was much news reporting Hong Kong wanted to be independent. They always said “our Hong Kong people were … Chinese were….” It felt like they didn’t regard them as Chinese. Also there were always some people claimed they hated Chinese and asked Chinese not to travel Hong Kong. Ironically, after the number of tourists from the mainland of China decreasing, they regretted because they wanted money. At first, I thought those views were totally untrue and were concocted …show more content…
We joined a summer camp because it was more convenient. We had a bad experience when we visited one shopping mall near the Victoria Harbour. I still remember it were the assistants in a CD store who made us very angry. A friend and I talked outside the store and caught a glimpse from two assistants. They also had a talk, but sometimes they pointed at us. I could tell something from their expressions. After all of us left that place, we talked and what they said proved my thoughts. One of my friends said an assistant kept following and staring at her when she was in the store when he found we talked in mandarin. It seemed like he worried that she might steal some CDs. Last but not the least, when she went to the counter and paid the CDs, the clerk said some bad words in Cantonese to the person near him. Maybe they believed my friend didn’t understand the words, but she actually caught some words and knew what they said. They said something like: Chinese had nothing only money or woo! The girl paid the bill! Was it strange that we pay for the goods? I was really offended and didn’t want to go to Hong Kong …show more content…
We talk aloud in the public places, run the red light, don’t wait in the bus queue, buy duty-free goods crazily and so forth. That’s not true now but Hong Kong people still have the same attitude as before. Many people from Mainland behave politely but only receive a rude attitude. I think they are kind of shameless is because they want to earn money from the Mainland but at the same time, they look down on the money. Since you look down on the Mainland, why you still want the money from the Mainland? That’s
Prejudice is an unfavorable opinion or feeling, formed beforehand (e.g., before even meeting a person) based on non-personal characteristics (e.g., skin color, religious, gender). One form of prejudice is racism. Racism is negative attitudes and values held by people about other people based on their race. It is this attitude which causes one to discriminate against another. Discrimination is treating people unfavorably on the basis of race, color or sex. Prejudice and discrimination were prevalent in the 1950s and 1960s. This era was a time of hatred, a time of violence, a time when black people were colonized by the white colonizer, and it was a time of white-on-black racial violence. Because of this hatred, the whites discriminated against the blacks.
Prejudice is a dreadful mindset that people can perceive from another person by their first look. As long as human race roams the Earth, prejudge mental will never cease. However long that we as people stay here on Earth is how long prejudice will last. We frustratingly try to obliterate prejudice, but it always upheaval back with maximum force. People take into consideration peoples race and ethnicity, and if it is diverse from theirs, then that person is probably prejudice towards them in any other ways, shape, or form. Prejudice has been with Mankind since the beginning of the human revolution. The simplest example of prejudice is when it comes to black and white revolution. Since colored human race were slaves in the beginning of American
At the end of the ordeal, it was found out these gentlemen were Hong Kong
For instance, English is the official language, both in Singapore and Hong Kong. Moreover, Singapore and Hong Kong both became international financial and economic centers. The new technology, education systems and the Enlightenment ideas introduced by the British built a bridge between their past to their irreplaceable positions in the modern world. Yet, Singapore and China suffered severe economic distress for years. Also, the hardship of Chinese and Singapore citizens under the era of imperialism was inestimable. Imperialism could not be praised or blamed. It is the product of historical background and complex relationships among
Hong Kong Reading - "The Book of the Year" Through imperialism, British rule encouraged industrialization and modernization which led to visible growth in the economy as the city is described as a trade center and important in manufacturing and banking, which suggests that the industries and businesses prospered. Additionally, the fear of Chinese rule suggests that businesses operated better under British rule, which shows how imperialism improved the lives of the people of Hong Kong compared to the government before imperial rule. The way that citizens of Hong Kong left the colony before it was returned to China further highlights the different effects of British rule and Chinese rule on the people, suggesting that British rule was preferred by the citizens of Hong Kong which is why they left rather than live under Chinese rule. This implies that the colonized people considered Great Britain’s imperialist rule to be better than the government before which was Chinese. This demonstrates that imperialism improved the lives of the colonized people because it helped the economy grow and prosper.
Unlike Euro-American immigrants, Chinese immigrants were forced into, dense concentrations of their own nationality, isolating them from American social culture. Neighborhoods outside of Chinatown were unwelcoming so that their only solace could be found in Chinatown. First generation Chinese in Chinatown labored amongst themselves and maintained strongly traditional attitudes and practices, learning little English because their homeland dialects of Cantonese or Mandarin were more than sufficient in the course ...
Two Ways to Reduce Prejudice Two ways in which prejudice can be reduced are Equal status contact and the pursuit of common goals. Deutsch and Collins (1951) carried out an early study of equal status contact. They compared two kinds of housing projects, one of which was thoroughly integrated with blacks and whites who were assigned houses regardless of their race, and the other was segregated. The residents of both housing projects were intensively interviewed and it was found that both casual and neighbourly contact were greater in the integrated housing with less prejudice among whites towards blacks.
Hong Kong has always remained a very unique city, one which is said to have ‘a Western past, an Eastern future’. Since its colonisation by the British in the 1860s, it has maintained to a very large extent its Chinese identity and its connection to its Motherland, while at the same time, has frequent contact with the Western world, politically, economically, and culturally. Hong Kong’s unique position has made the city a vibrant international metropolis that acts as a bridge between East and West. Yet after it was returned to China in 1997, this former British colony has been constantly reassessing its British past, struggling to find its new position and redefining its identity.
From the reading I learned prejudice is when a person attaches negative emotion to a certain group of people that is not based on facts. Prejudice has two levels cognitive or affective where the cognitive is thinking and feeling prejudice while affecting is actually doing prejudice actions. Discrimination is also discussed in chapter one. Discrimination is unequal behavior or treatment of a person based on them being a member of a group. An example of discrimination would be not getting selected for a job because you are African
The word prejudice is derived from the Latin word " praejudicium" and refers to prejudging without any factual evidence. Being prejudiced usually means having preconceived beliefs about groups of people or cultural practices. Discrimination is the "differential and unequal treatment of other groups of people, usually along racial, religious or ethnic lines." The distinction is that prejudice then refers to people's attitudes and beliefs, and discrimination to their overt behavior directed at another group. (Parrillo 76)
In the book West Side Story by Arthur Laurents there were many prejudices. Prejudice is a favoring or dislike of something without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge. There were prejudices in West Side Story that had to do with the types of people, their races and sex. Sometimes prejudice can be in small doses and can be meaningless, other times prejudice can be very serious and cause death.
I wish they would see that we are not that different. They resent us for doing the thing came out here to do - find gold. Just because we actually find it, they hate us. They use us as a scapegoat for all their problems because we find gold, and they don't. I heard that originally we were welcomed, in the 40s, as a way to fill the labour shortage, but no longer. But of course, that was in Queensland, not here. Attitudes have definitely worsened since then. They think we all are the same, that we all fit their stereotype 'Chinese Person' - stupid and vice ridden. In reality, we are completely different from their design of us. We are not here to invade, just to get our gold and get out. We have no interest in their women, just gold. I think we are indeed quite smart, working what they leave behind, and actually receiving results. I can't understand how they don't understand. At least I am not in Victoria. I hear that things are even worse their then they are here, but I don't no how much longer that statement will remain true. I miss my home. But hopefully, I will be able to return there
Ignorance is a huge problem, it is one of the biggest factors responsible for issues such as racism and sexism. Luckily, ignorance, generally speaking, is a relatively easy issue to fix. The obvious answer here would be more education, but this is not necessarily the case. In order to eliminate much of the racism, sexism, and other forms of prejudice that arise due to ignorance, it is necessary to look at education from another perspective: one that encourages togetherness and development alongside people of all races and genders. One quote by Grace Boggs book The Next American Revolution summarizes the issue perfectly. “Just imagine what our neighborhoods would be like if, instead of keeping our children isolated in classrooms for twelve years and more, we engaged them in community-building activities with the same audacity with which the civil rights movement engaged them in desegregation activities fifty years ago! ...Our children will be absorbing naturally and normally the values of social responsibility and cooperation at the same time that they are being inspired to learn the skills and acquire the information necessary to solve real problems” (Boggs 158). So, the main point here is that prejudice, against all sexes, genders, and creeds, can be eliminated via education that encourages cooperation with the largest variety of people. In order to understand this concept, it is necessary to look at it from a few different perspectives to analyze its viability in modern society.
Prejudice can be caused because of various reasons. Religion, ethnic race and social status are examples of causes of prejudice. Sometimes prejudice is caused by how we are raised. Many times parents pass on prejudice beliefs to their children. A lot people raised in the southern part of the country are prejudice against blacks. In the early to mid 1960’s, prejudice was alive and well in the south. Blacks had their own bathrooms and were forced to ride in the back of city busses. It’s hard to believe that was doing on only 40 years ago. A lot of Middle Eastern countries are very prejudice against women.
By 1971, the Cultural Revolution in China had ended in failure and conditions in Hong Kong calmed,” Gloria Lannom states, yet it took a while for Hong Kong to rebuild its economic standings because of this fact.