6.2

Prejudice and discrimination are closely related but are not exactly the same thing. Prejudice is damage resulting from some judgment or action of another in disregard of one's rights. Discrimination is the failure to treat people equally because of a bias based on characteristic such as race, religion, sex, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, and disability. For example: a business owner may not like Filipinos but treat them as if they were any other race just because he needs their business, this would be considered being prejudice. A example of discrimination would be: not hiring a Filipino because they don't like Filipinos. So in a sense prejudice is not liking someone for certain characteristics but still treating them like anyone else because they can help you in some personal way and discrimination is not liking someone for certain characteristics and acting upon any manner not to help them out or succeed in whatever they are trying to reach.

This difference helps us understand the challenge in our culture because many people walk into job interviews knowing they are just as qualified as the person next in line and having a great shot at it but sometimes walk out never knowing why they really didn't get the position. Especially elderly people who make the effort to better their lifestyles, being discriminated for their age group and being under-minded for what they might be or not be capable of. I think people just need to not judge a book by its cover.