Since the dawn of time, the world has been moulded and shaped to our present 21st century ,evidently through the human beings' thoughts and opinions . The power of our views and our mindsets determine a huge aspect of our lifes and greatly impacts our immediate society. Our individuality is the factor that not only created diversity but also the element of prejudism in our society. It is the different perspectives in our thinkings which leads to our varied reactions to adversity that causes the poison of prejudism to spread through. To change our individuality is impossible ,or rather impractical, but to change our approach towards the incidents that lead to prejudise thinking is certainly not. Thus the claim that prejudism is a stain that can never be erased from the face of the human population is truly of debate. Prejudice thinking can be eroded if people are willing to embrace each others' differences and celebrate one anothers' uniqueness which success is then truly dependent on the people. Thus prejudism is a concept that can be gotten rid of but only to a limited extent.
Prejudism is essentially an effect to a much bigger adversity at hand. So to have any chances of eradicating prejudism it is fundamental to change one's way of thinking so as to prevent escalating the effect, which is then best achieved through education.Singapore, being a multi racial and multi religious society, understood the importance of cooperation and the possibility of prejudism between the spectrum of races all too well. Thus it intergrated the National Education Programme which commenced in 1990 into its education system which help educate the students about the different races and their unique traditions. By explaining the presence and the significanceof these varied customs and cultures , Singaporeans are then better able to appreciate and understand one another which then helps to decrease the risk of prejudism. So the aspect of prejudism can be gotten rid of ,but the reality is, it is not eroded completely. However the success is solely dependant on the people and to support the fact that prejudism has not been rampant, Singapore has not faced any major racial riots since 1965.
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sri!Your write up on prejudice is excellent.I agree to your view on how prejudice can be eradicated. It is dependent on the people. You gave an example of Singapore's action against prejudists and how Singaporeans are being taught how to be more sensitive towards people of other races, however, I was wondering if you could further elaborate how governments in other countries are trying to remove this problem. Maybe then it would give a greater insight to whether this "disease" can ever be gotten rid of. =) Otherwise, its an awesome and insightful write up hun!
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