Reflection on 'Prejudice'

I think that I learnt quite a bit from today's lesson, which was on prejudice. It was fun and enjoyable with an activity. Through this, I learn the many categories of discrimination, prejudice and stereotypes. Example, 'dogs have bad breath' is categorized under animal and so on. I think that the main discrimination in our country is the one in my composition, which is discrimination against the black people, mostly of whom do not deserve how we treat them. It is very easy to find Singaporeans cracking racist jokes against black people, and show them disrespect. I think that this is not an appropriate behavior in a multi-racial country, and I think that this is a factor that our nation has to work on. Furthermore, many of us grow up in a mostly Chinese environment and have grown used to being around Chinese and not with other races. This has formed a disrespect and hate for other races. I think that this is not a good thing to have in a multi-racial country and I hope that we as a nation will try and improve it. To me, black people are just like you and me, normal human beings. We should treat them with respect as how we treat other people. Another main discrimination in our country is the industrial one. That is like, neighbourhood schools calling hwachong and raffles institution people nerds, while the elite school students calling neighbourhood schools lousy. This causes competition between schools. I think that we should all work together and make Singapore a better country.