Make Your Way 8, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Why can’t we live together ? Roleplay 9 A lecture on prejudice You are going to listen to sociologist Ann Peters from Columbia University in New York giving a lecture on the notion of prejudice. • Before you listen, make a list of different types of prejudice and compare lists with your partner. • Now listen and compare your list with the six different types of prejudice Professor Peters mentions. • Listen again. What examples does she give of colour prejudice being reflected in our language? 10 Talk about the topic Discuss the following questions in small groups. • Look at the picture. Talk about some of the things that might be going through the minds of some of the wedding guests. • What problems might this couple face, now and in the future, if the woman was Austrian and they wanted to live in Austria? • Would the problems be less, the same or worse if the man was white and the woman was black? • If you had a boyfriend/girlfriend of a different skin colour, what problems might arise with your family and friends? • Would it make a difference if your boyfriend/girlfriend was of the same skin colour but from a different country? • Do you think Europe will ever be able to live in complete racial harmony? Explain the reasons for your answer. 11 prejudice / }predJïdçs / n unfair and often unfavourable feeling or opinion not based on reason or enough knowledge, and sometimes resulting from fear or distrust of ideas di erent from one’s own: A judge must be free from prejudice / a new law to discourage racial prejudice (= prejudice against members of other races) • Read the following extract from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English . • Think of a situation in which you or other people were the victims of prejudice. Note down some keywords about the situation on a sheet of paper. Then work with a partner. Give your partner your notes to read. Using your notes, he or she should find out what the situation was like. Then change roles. Finally, tell each other about the respective incidents. 1/04 30 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv