Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Interview for LA
Interpersonal:Conduct an interview with a friend (not from HCI) or family member. Find out from their point of view on prejudice and discrimination. Either record the interview or write out the interview transcript.
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Person I interviewed: Friend from SJI (Sec 2)
Me: What do you think being prejudice is?
Him: .......It is an unfair treatment on a group of people formed by lack of knowledge.
Me: Can you give an example of people being prejudice in singapore?
Him: People are prejudiced against malays.
Me: Why is it happening?
Him: People have this impression that Malays are troublemakers and they disrupt the peace.
Me: How can this be stopped?
Him: .... Come up with a statistic data that shows that malays are not the most frequent crime breakers.
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Me: What do you think is discrimination?
Him: ......It is the same as being prejudice.
Me: Are there no difference between the 2?
Him: No, because they both mean unfair treatment to others.
Me: Can you give an example of people being discriminated in Singapore?
Him: Malays are being discriminated
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Me: What is the difference between being prejudice and discriminating others?
Him: There is not much difference, they basically mean the same thing
Me: Are they linked in any other way, other then being the same thing?
Him: The victim of both situation suffers for no reason.
Me: Which do you think is more serious?
Him: Discrimination. Being prejudice just means it affects your action like you would stay away from a malay. Discriminating means that you are superior to him. It might lead to things such as people insulting malay, e.g. regarding their skin colour.
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Kim Yao walked on the sunny side.
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