Prejudice in the Modern World

Prejudice can be defined as a negative attitude towards others based on prejudgment. The Almanac volumes of this series starts with a timeline which, rather curiously, begins at 632  ce – “conflict erupts among Muslims … leading to a major split between Sunni and Shiite”. Biologically speaking, prejudice probably predates humanity. The attitude of the Aryan barbarian invaders of India toward the “black‐faced dasyus … with flat noses and … unintelligible speech … who do not worship the gods” of the high Harrapan civilization they overthrew (quotations from the Rig‐Veda) is not very different from the attitude of one tribe...