What Are The Causes Of Discrimination And Discrimination

Discrimination and prejudice have caused problems in the societies throughout the history. People discriminate against the weak, the poor, and the racially or culturally divergent because of many different reasons. History has shown that the ill-treatments against an individual or group can lead to violence and harmful actions. In the article “The Political Economic of Hatred”, Edward Glaeser stressed that people are willing to oppress and vote against the out-group because hatred is fostered by false narrative of the out-group’s crime. Some people are willing to accept hatred, rather than investigate the truth. Glaeser’s theory can be apply to the how Hitler were able to influenced the Germans to believe that Jews were the root cause of the

The country experience economic instability through inflation and unemployment. The Nazi used propaganda campaigns to promote their hatred toward Jews because they believed that Jews were the cause of problems in Germany. Thus, the Jews were the scapegoat of the German’s social conditions. They promised to restore Germany by promising law and order, jobs, and better life for the Germans. As mentioned in the article, the power of Nazi anti-Semitism stories were based from repetition and not accuracy. The essence of their strategy was to behave and frame their political message that will influence others’ behavior and believe that Jews were the symbol of evil. Hitler was able to manipulate the Germans to accept his ideology in the best of his party’s interest, and that is to win the vote. His ideology comprised of three primary components and that is racial purity and superiority of Germans, nationalism, and leadership principle which required obedience to Hitler. Then in 1932, the Nazi party won 37% of the vote and the Holocaust began (Gurock,

According to Staub’s just-world hypothesis which suggests that people tend to believe that victims are punished for what they deserved can be explain why many German allow the Jews to be persecuted (Staub, 79). They assumed that Jews earned their punishment for their actions that have caused the society to suffer. This sort of thoughts and actions allowed the Germans to easily devalue the Jews and helped them raise their self-esteem. Additionally, many of the German public were passive bystanders that did not resist or condemn the Nazi policy to persecute the Jews. This may be because they were satisfied with other Nazi policies that aimed to improve the economic crises. Nevertheless, the non-resistance and silence from the bystanders implied that they were willing to accept the Nazi’s actions and this in turned allowed the Nazi to justify the human rights violation against the Jews. Thus, this quickly led to