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.....prejudice ..... stereotyping .....bigotry ..... stigma .....

It’s lazy thinking

It breeds intolerance

It’s selfish

Whatever word you use for it prejudice

takes away its victims’ humanity and shoves them into groups that are in some way “not one of us”
excludes people from the mainstream of community life and it can lead to disadvantage and potentially depression or mental breakdown

It is arguably the greatest contributor to human isolation and mental ill health in communities across the world

……and it seems to be getting worse

Three examples

Antisocial behaviour is the biggest worry of a third of respondents to the British Crime Survey published January 2008.

In 2000 25% of the UK population admitted to being prejudiced about race. By 2007 that figure had gone up to 30%.
More than a quarter of those surveyed think poor people are lazy or lack will power, compared to a fifth in 1995.

(from British Social Attitudes 2008 a report produced by the National Centre for Social Research)

Wherever we are, whether it’s on an internet blog, in queues for the bus, in shops, or in cars it seems we’ve grown used to aggression and intolerance.

Challenging these attitudes is what this website is all about

We think it’s time to challenge Stigma wherever we find

and

Reclaim our humanity and our empathy

STUFF STIGMA 2008

The Conference

More than 100 delegates attended the empathy conference on March 31 that launched Norfolk's three-year Stuff Stigma campaign

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