Mountain People

Mrs. Ball, English II


Mountain People


Mountain People(by Jo Carson)

Mountain peoplecan’t read,can’t write,don’t wear shoes,don’t have teeth,don’t use soap, and don’t talk plain.They beat their kids,beat their friends,beat their neighbors,and beat their dogs.


They live on cow peas,fatback and twenty acresstraight up and down.They don’t have money.They do have fleas,overalls,tobacco patches,shacks,shotguns,foodstamps,liquor stills,and at least six junk cars in the front yard.

Right?


Well, let me tell you:I am from here,I’m not like that and I am damned tired of being told I am.


Prejudice and Stereotyping


What does the word prejudice mean to you?


Prejudice: Formal Definition

Prejudice is an attitude of closed mindedness which allows a person to prejudge another negatively without any knowledge of that person.


Prejudice is frequently based on emotion, not on reason or fact. It is the hatred one feels towards another person for no concrete reason.


Gordon Allport’s Five Levels of Prejudice:

1. Name calling: the stereotyping of an entire group.


Name Calling

Name calling is one form of labeling or stereotyping.


2. Isolation: the separation of the group from society


3. Discrimination: legal isolation


4. Physical attack


5. Extermination


STEREOTYPE


Stereotype

Stereotyping is a basic form of prejudice.


Stereotype: Formal Definition

Stereotype is a generally accepted opinion or fixed notion of a person that is believed without investigation.


Stereotype: Formal Definition

Stereotype generalizes a person’s character by labeling him/her, refusing to view a person as an individual, only as a type of person.


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