Question

How does selection, evocation, and/or manipulation influence prejudice, e.g. racism or sexism? (Address one or more of selection, evocation, and manipulation)

Answer 1

Selection involves how a person intentionally avoids or selects the expression of prejudice .

• The influence of race or cultural ethnicity in selecting life partner is associated with this type of expression of the prejudice.
• Avoidance of females in professions that require more physical stamina is an example of selection based on prejudice.

Evocation is unintentional expression of prejudices in day to day life of a person.

• Associating love and care with mother figure in a family and rules and disciplines with the father figure.
• Preference of white skin over color skin in marketing cosmetic or considering it be the standard of beauty.

Manipulation is shaping,altering, exploitating,or changing of an individual's social expression.

• Shaping of gender concepts with reference to religious texts has always supported gender prejudice and made the prejudices of gender more strong.
• The expression of prejudice regarding race in present day is in more subtle form as compared to the past, when it was more direct and discriminative.