What are the causes and effects of racial prejudice?

Question

What are the causes and effects of racial prejudice?

Answer 1

Causes: Ignorance, brainwashing, upbringing, negative experiences with individuals of a given race, negative images portrayed in media and societal stereotypes, separation, hate, lack of education, distorted thinking, fear....

Effects: judgment, slurs, violence, hate crimes, death, inequality, inhumanity, discrimination, derrogation, exaltation, miscomunicaiton, misunderstanding, prejudice, conflict,  degredation, individualization, dehumanization, confimration bias, bigotry, intolerance...

Answer 2

The Outsider is right... Those are the causes and effects... However in some countries is possible to see that racism is almost none existing; however discrimination remains... as strong as ever... In my country for example there's not much racism; there are stupid people of course... however, since we haven't had they same problems as other countries, I guess the  wound is not quite open... Anyway, calling someone "negrito" here is sort of sweet, and the person doesn't even have to be African-ecuadorian to be called that way... however, if a were to call someone "little ***** boy" in U.S.A... well, that's not going to be pretty... I guess at the end it depends on the history of the country... Anyway; over here there is not much racism, however clasism is somewhat strong... and is because of the obvious social difference among people... Few have a lot, and a lot have few... and others (very, very few) have somewhat in between...