Challenging Discrimination Understanding the value of diversity whilst challenging discrimination in UK society. British Values

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What message is this image attempting to convey, do you think? Prejudice: making judgements about people without knowing anything about them. Discrimination: The actions of treating people differently based on prejudices. Can you think of any particular examples of the types of prejudice people might experience? Support When you meet someone, what do you notice first? Why do people judge people before knowing them? What message is this image attempting to convey, do you think? British Values

British Values Causes of Discrimination Parental/Peer pressure Fear Ignorance Causes of Discrimination Media Anger – after some event or tragedy Personal Experience Can you give examples of each of the following causes of discrimination? British Values

What were you expecting our reasons to be? The idea behind these posters, created by the Commission for Racial Equality, is clever, because the reason is unexpected. Demonstrating something of people’s awareness of prejudice. Reason What were you expecting our reasons to be? Reason Task: Use the idea of ‘the unexpected’ to create posters to promote racial equality. You may need to take pictures from the internet or newspapers. Reason British Values

Religious and cultural diversity – a good thing? Provides choice: Freedom of religion is one of the human rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights; but you can only really be free to chose your religion if you have access to a variety.  You need to know about other religions to make a choice and you need to be able to access them (i.e. you need a local faith group) to be able to participate properly. Increased tolerance/decrease prejudice: People who live in a multi-faith society are likely to know more about other cultures and religions than simply their own.  This is important because often prejudice, discrimination and hatred stem from ignorance and fear.  If people know more about each other's customs and beliefs they are less likely to find their differences threatening. Diversity is exciting:  Different ethnic groups or religions have different, customs, foods and festivals. It would be dull to live in a place where everyone did the same thing and believed the same thing. British Values

What are some of the potential challenges individuals or society encounters as a result of diversity, do you think? Loss of identity: Some people might be concerned that increasing ethnic variety results in a loss of national identity.   Marriage/family life:  If members of different ethnic backgrounds or religions fall in love then this might present other difficulties such as what type of wedding service they would have and how they would bring up their children (whether to have them baptised/circumscised etc and whether to send them to a religious school). Incompatible customs:  Some ethnic groups and religions have practices or customs which are difficult to incorporate into society.  For example, Islam technically allows a man to take up to four wives (though most Muslims don't do this). However, bigamy is illegal in Britain. British Values

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Challenging Discrimination Understanding the value of diversity whilst challenging discrimination in UK society. British Values