A STUDY OF PREJUDICE REDUCTION.

This article seeks to determine whether the pattern of social conflict with respect to races in the United States can be broken; that is, whether prejudice attitudes can be subverted to open intergroup communications, developing into group interaction. If this process is carried to its logical conclusions, will there be mutual group acceptance and integration? Prejudice, largely because of its affective qualities, is rigidly implanted in a person's mind. Very simply, prejudice is an emotional and relatively unchangeable attitude directed from one group of people towards another group of people. While prejudice is an attitude, discrimination is an overt action; that is, discrimination "is the categorical treatment of a member of a group because he is a member of that group, and supposedly, therefore, of a particular type." Discrimination is the systematic deprivation of various desired resources, goals, and interactions to a specific group. This can be done by clearly defining the minority group and segregating them from the rest of society.