First Question.

Everything that I have found about the conference about prejudice are by Google and

YouTube sources. I have investigated and checked out the before and after life of each

person in the video because in that way we could discuss the reasons and motives for their

way of thinking and the prejudices they have.

I personally do believe that before you give your opinion about the way of thinking of

others you need to know the background and context in which the person grew up and

the way they are living, so you have the empathy to understand the situation better.

The video of the conference is in YouTube and is on the Mental Health Treatment Channel,

which has 474 k subscribers and 131 videos upload. I have found a lot of confussion about

the conference because in the exact same year another conference about Prejudice was

made with also high school students from different countries so, whenever you search for

¨1956 High School Students Prejudice¨ the second conference appears more than the first

one. The High School Students names are Gold Coast (Ghana today)- Alfred Bannerman

(18 years old), South Africa- Dicks Loubser (18 years old), Nigeria- Mohammed Liman (18

years old), Ethiopia- Nebiat Tafari (17 years old). I googled every student and read the

highlights of their lives, let’s start with Dr. Alfred C. Bannerman (Gold Coast- Ghana today),

he became the director of neurology at Jamaica hospital. in Queens and a professor of

neurology at Columbia. university New York. upon his retirement, he returned to his home

country Ghana.

Dicks Loubser (South Africa). I couldn´t find anything about Dicks story, I tried Google,

Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia

Mohammed Liman (Nigeria), his last name is Tukur Liman and he was elected Senator for

the Katsina South constituency of Katsina State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth

Republic, running on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) platform. He took office on 29

May 1999.

Nebiat Tafari ( Ethiopia), this man was one of the easiest to found because there is so

much information about his life and all of his achievements. He prided himself for knowing

and understanding Ethiopia’s religious literature and educational system and valued that

experience above all other educational pursuits. He eagerly returned to Ethiopia and

resumed practicing medicine at Princess Tsehai Hospital in Addis Abeba. Nebiat has his

own biography page to tell the world everything that he has done, you can even send

flowers to Nebiat´s family from the online page.

Getting to know all this background helps you to understand a little bit more about the life

and social context that everyone had/has. You can even change your prejudice about them

since now you have a new perspective, and at the end I think that is what it´s an important

point on prejudice, be flexible around other minds and point of views.

Second Question.

1. Nigerian people against Christian religious

Nigerian people has real problems with Christian are a real problem cause they are having

strong discussions and they won´t even share lunch.

Here we have a religious issue and that develops to discrimination and of course

prejudice.

There are really difficult situations as religion in places like Nigeria. Nigeria has become

one of the worst scenes of religious intolerance expressed in violence and cruel acts of

persecution and discrimination.

Religious violence in Nigeria refers to Christian-Muslim strife in modern Nigeria, which can

be tracted back on to 1953. Today, religiuos violence in Nigeria is dominated by the Boko

Haram insurgencym which aims to establish al Islamic state in Nigeria.

2. Distinction between South Africa and native tribes.

Dicks was arguing about how he thought that he was been discriminated by the native

tribes since he was not ¨Negro¨. He specially talked about the how bad they treated

white people for being white, and how he wanted to separate the ¨whites with the

whites¨and the ¨negros with the negros¨.

3. Own Government

Even if they were living in the same country they would be separated, and not only

that, but they would also divide territory and even Government. In my opinion this is

the wrong choice, because a country doesn´t grows up for being separated and in

¨war¨ with the same country.

Third Question.

For me, personally, I think that prejudices come from different situations, experiences and

even family and friends. You are not born with prejudices you learn them in society and

from people around you. Prejudice is something personal, something that makes you live

your life at different stages.

Prejudice can manifest in a lot of ways, including racial prejudice, religious prejudice and

gender prejudice.

I really do believe that is important to remark that is a learned behavior and can be

unlearned but that is a difficult step since prejudice is a way of mind thinking.

There are some ways to fight prejudice since you can get involved in activities that can

change your way of thinking and helping you to become open minded.

Overcoming prejudice requires a combination of individual and societal efforts to create a

more positive environment.

Watching kids of my age in a conference that important 67 years ago is a really big deal for

me since now I have aq lot more of critery and now how important all of these topics are

for society and one bad comment can cause everything to crumble.

As a Mexican I have a lot and different types of prejudice, I can really think about deep

thoughts but if I analyze it is because I have a background like religion, family, friends,

traditions.
Fourth Question.

Even though the video talks about the different forms of prejudice I think the fact that the

young people involved in the videos have many more tools than a young person like me

might have at that age gives them an advantage. I was very struck by the detailed way they

expressed their point of view. The freedom these young people had is amazing. In fact, in

many articles I read they talked about the level of intellectual superiority that these young

people had and their ability to argue in a much more developed way for their age. The

topics they dealt with by omaintaining a politically incorrect tone for a debate in 2023 are

surprising to everyone.

We are in a time that wherever you say can be use against you but also we have come a

really long way, which is a really good thing because we can also say our opinion without

being judge by society.

We can talk and have deep talks about topics that in times before were to be shuted but I

want to believe that we are more open now.

Prejudice cannot disappear, it will always be there but also in that way prejudice helps us

to know really what we are and how we think.

Prejudice can be good and can be bad, but we want to make a difference in society always

in a good way .
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