Bias and Prejudice

Thinking skills: Bias and prejudice

In the Thinking skills class we had to read a unit of bias, the language of it and prejudice. After reading this we had to solve two activities realted to these topics.

1) In Item A we can notice the prejudice by the way the Germans blamed the jews for every problem in Germany, even some were unreasonable. Hitler was the main one who expresed the prejudice to the Jews. In Item B prejudice to the Jews is shown by distorting the reality and presenting the Jews as the killers and guilties.

The evidence they contain that shows that the prejudice is irrational is the truth. By knowning the context and the history of the Nazi Germany, we know that the sources show distortion and irrationality since they aren't truth.

They are not credible at all because they are biased. They are made in a particular way to persuade people to believe they are in that way when they actually aren't. They are not credible since the context shows that the hisotry of the Jews wasn't as the Nazi Germans saw it.

2) The use of the language in the items indicates bias because the British media uses postive vocabulary to describe their man and negative vocabulary to describe the iraquies. This shows how obviously they are in the British side. They discribe their man as "professionals, confident and loyal" and the iraquíes as "brainwashed, mad dogs and ruthless".  Moreoever, they say they neutralise.

Because it is kind of obvious that a country is going to defend their side. Britain is not going to talk amazing things about Iraq because in this case it's the enemy. As a consequence, the credibility is reduced.

Gruop Member:Sofia Garcia,Lucila Vivas,Valentina Beahr,Martina Dorazio,Sol Caeiro