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Corporate Risks: Unit 7
19.1 Prejudice, Discrimination, Exclusion, and Lack of Diversity
A prejudice (from the Latin prae iudicium, “judged beforehand”) is the process of forming a concept or judgment about some person, object, or idea in advance. In psychological terms, it is an unconscious mental activity that distorts perception.*
* es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejuicio (Prejudice).
Prejudices can cause a person to be misjudged.
A lady arrives at the railway station, buys a magazine, a packet of cookies, and a bottle of water, and sits on a bench to wait for the train. While she is browsing a magazine, a young man sits down next to her and begins to read a newspaper. Suddenly, without saying a word, the young man reaches out, takes the package ...
