Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination Essay

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    perception, language, religion, ethnic background etc. Moreover, Lambert, (2016) emphasized that diversity management consideration by means of generating shared belief systems, respect for group’s beliefs, values, norms and evasion of biasness, stereotyping, racism, nationalism and other types of discriminatory aspects creates issues if not properly managed within a community or organization. Furthermore, considering Australia’s multi-culturism circumstances are associated with colonial connections

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    The other thing that could reduce the segregation and the discrimination the African Americans in the United States face is increasing the currently scarce resources. This will enable the African Americans to rise to the middle class as the rest of the white population. The demographic trends could also change for the better if more and more African Americans intermarried with people from different races. This way discrimination, prejudice, and segregation against them would slowly lose their credibility

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