3. Mountain People

4. Mountain People ( by Jo Carson) Mountain people can’t read, can’t write, don’t wear shoes, don’t have teeth, don’t use soap, and don’t talk plain. They beat their kids, beat their friends, beat their neighbors, and beat their dogs.

5. They live on cow peas, fatback and twenty acres straight up and down. They don’t have money. They do have fleas, overalls, tobacco patches, shacks, shotguns, foodstamps, liquor stills, and at least six junk cars in the front yard. Right?

6. Well, let me tell you: I am from here, I’m not like that and I am damned tired of being told I am.

7. Prejudice and Stereotyping

8. What does the word prejudice mean to you?

9. Prejudice: Formal Definition  Prejudice is an attitude of closed mindedness which allows a person to prejudge another negatively without any knowledge of that person.

10.  Prejudice is frequently based on emotion, not on reason or fact. It is the hatred one feels towards another person for no concrete reason.

11. Gordon Allport’s Five Levels of Prejudice:  1. Name calling: the stereotyping of an entire group.

12. Name Calling  Name calling is one form of labeling or stereotyping.

13.  2. Isolation: the separation of the group from society

14.  3. Discrimination: legal isolation

15.  4. Physical attack

16.  5. Extermination

17. STEREOTYPE

18. Stereotype  Stereotyping is a basic form of prejudice.

19. Stereotype: Formal Definition  Stereotype is a generally accepted opinion or fixed notion of a person that is believed without investigation.

20. Stereotype: Formal Definition  Stereotype generalizes a person’s character by labeling him/her, refusing to view a person as an individual, only as a type of person.