NCERT Chapter Summary: Diversity and Discrimination

1. What are Prejudices?

Village people are, in everyone’s opinion, supposed to be ignorant and superstitious while city people are supposed to be greedy, lazy and money-minded. These opinions create negative impression in a human’s sub-conscious mind and are called Prejudices.

2. How do we make stereotype?

When prejudice develops in its full form, we may well begin to view the person as a stereotype. A person is fixed into a particular type of image.