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5 Most people are not prejudiced. Surveys show that well over 75% of our population do not consider themselves to be racist. Research has shown that those who identify themselves as low in prejudicial beliefs still discriminate.

Additional information:
Gaertner, Samuel L. & Dovidio, John F. (1986),"The Aversive Form of Racism," In J. F. Dovidio & S.

L. Gaertner (Eds), Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism (pp 61- 89) Academic Press

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6.There are inexpensive methods of managing prejudicial behavior. There are ways of managing prejudicial behavior that cost next to nothing.

Additional information:
In the April 1993 issue of Training and Development, John Dovidio reported some results of leadership behavior in reducing prejudices. In one corporation, the CEO simply asked that his senior management discuss what they were doing in the area of equal opportunity. That was all he did, and by the next quarter there had been a significant increase in both the promotion rate and the hiring rate of women and minorities.

Dovidio also reported in the same article that the Army had only rarely promoted women and minorities at the same rate as the overall rate of promotion. Since the goal was announced to promote minorities and women at an equal rate to the overall promotion rate, it has been met on a consistent basis.

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7. We are not all treated equally under the law. Discrimination has been a long standing part of our court system.

Additional information:
To quote the Amnesty International web page:
"Racism - There is "a pattern of evidence indicating racial disparities in the charging, sentencing, and imposition of the death penalty" according to a 1990 United States Government report. An overwhelming majority of death row efendants since 1977 were executed for killing whites despite the fact that whites and blacks are victims of murder in approximately equal numbers. In Texas, for example, blacks found guilty of killing whites were found to be six times more likely to receive the death penalty than whites convicted of killing whites."

http://www.derechos.org/amnesty/dp.html - amnesty international's web page on the death penalty

http://www.theelectricchair.com/stats.htm - Death Penalty Statistics

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8) Those who risked their own lives to save Jewish People in western Europe during the period that the Nazi were practicing genocide were no more religious than those who did not try to save the
Jewish People.

Additional information:
Hunt, Morton, The Compassionate Beast: What Science is Discovering about the Humane Side of Humankind, William Morrow and Co.

Oliner, Samuel P., and Oliner, Pearl, 1988 The Altruistic Personality: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe. New York: Free Press

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