Well... I am lazy. I am now asking the internet to do my RE homework... *sigh*... I have good reason though! I need to write a story about prejudice but I don't know what to write, and I'm sure you guys are good at this stuff...
If you want something fairly easy, you could always do the Nazi Germany-thing. But I suspect, if this is a homework assignment for others, that this will be mentioned. You could talk about the Jim Crow laws in the United States. This is pretty easy to draw information from. If you want to blow minds, you could talk about the treatment of the Armenians by the Ottoman Empire, or the Herero and Namaqua Genocide conducted in Imperial Germany's African colonies. Not many seem to know about these events. There's also the Tokugawa era in Japan, which had quite a negative attitude towards Christianity. You get an interesting bonus here, too, since many Japanese were not allowed to leave Japan either. There's treatment of Natives in the New World (the Americas) by the Spanish, British, and French. That whole destroying civilizations by the Spanish, especially, could make for an interesting source of inspiration for a story. You could discuss the Khmer Rouge. Not only do you have ridiculous prejudice (these fuckers genuinely believed, if you wore glasses, this made you intelligent -- therefore, you had to die), but you get the bonus of genocide and political corruption, courtesy of a guy named Pol Pot. There's plenty of sources. Maybe one of those will help?
Depending on how current events you want to go, could always also delve into the same sex marriage issue, or that transgender people have twice the unemployment rate of the average population, and as a double whammy, trams women of color, it's about 4x.... ---------- Post added 5th Mar 2015 at 09:31 PM ---------- oh, forgot the myth that all gay guys are child molesters.
Oooh, I just love that myth!:rolle: Ryu: You could also do a story on the treatment of LGBT people by Nazi Germany. Jews and Gypsies weren't the only ones tossed into the concentration camps. Gay people were also targeted and were even forced to wear pink triangle badges to identify them. In some ways it was worse for the gay prisoners since they got crap not only from the Nazi soldiers but also from the other prisoners.
Try to pick an issue that you find interesting, and something that isn't too broad, in fact, try to find a subject that is somewhat niche, but has lots of information written about it.
