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Emotion plays a role in prejudice.
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And we know that emotion and cognition
or how you think
plays a very important role
in shaping a prejudice.
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Now, we know that if you’re upset, then that
might shape the way you execute your prejudice.
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We also know that fear and frustration
are emotional drivers behind prejudice.
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So when you’re scared or you’re frustrated,
it’s very easy for you to show prejudice
against another group or another individual.
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So if you are afraid of perhaps a new culture
or group of individuals moving
into your neighborhood or your territory,
you might be a little bit apprehensive and afraid.
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What is this going to do to my neighborhood?
And is this going to do to me?
And I have no power over this. Nobody
is allowing me to choose if they can come in.
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They're just coming in and now you are frustrated.
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So your reaction might be, “Well, I don’t know
about those people that come from that town.
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That town called Bumsville.
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Those Bumsville people, they are just really,
really lazy, and they steal and you’re thinking this.
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And is that really founded on actual evidence?
Do you really know for a fact that
the people from Bumpsville are actually
that lazy or that terrible? And you don’t.
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But because you are afraid and you are frustrated,
you actually imply and roll out that prejudice.
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This can elicit the natural reaction
of hostility as well from both sides.
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Now, all of a sudden, I’m laying out
this prejudice against this group.
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And it’s gotten mean to a heightened
state of arousal.
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And in the moment, something even perceived happens,
so they actually do something maybe by mistake
or inadvertently that aligns with my prejudice.
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Now I can become extremely hostile.
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Now if you flip it, the receiver of the prejudice
might by self-defense become quite hostile as well.
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when he or she feels, or the group feels that
they’re not being welcomed and then instead
there is this prejudice they might be hostile as well.
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A scapegoat, which I think is why we have this
beautiful figure of weird looking goat.
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It refers to the individual at whom
this place hostility is directed.
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So, you might actually identified with
the certain individual or group
that’s going to be the brunt of your prejudice.
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And, again it might be – most of the time
it is displaced. It’s not appropriate.
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but you find, “Hey that person I think
he’s the one that’s responsible.
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And all the prejudice, all the hostility and
everything is directed towards that one individual
even though it’s not really founded.