Prejudice racism practical examples
1. A person of Asian descent walking down the street is verbally harassed and called racial slurs by a group of strangers because of their race.
2. An employer automatically assumes that a job applicant with a Middle Eastern-sounding name is untrustworthy or dangerous, despite having no evidence to support this assumption.
3. A store clerk follows a customer of African descent around the store, assuming that they will shoplift simply because of their race.
4. A teacher consistently gives lower grades to students of a certain ethnic background, even when their work is of the same quality as their classmates.
5. A landlord refuses to rent an apartment to a family because they are Hispanic, even though they have good references and can afford the rent.