Learning Outcome: Demonstrate how social messages and stereotypes can affect feelings of self-worth.
Discrimination - the act of treating some people unfairly because of prejudice.
Prejudice - an opinion formed without knowing all the facts.
Stereotypes - a standardized and oversimplified and inaccurate conception held in common by many people.
Protest - an objection or complaint, to express objection in a planned, organized way.
Social Messaging - the passing of a message/idea from person to person in a community.
Dawn Raids.
In English with Mrs. Handley this morning we had to read a text about the Dawn Raids in New Zealand and answer a few questions.
- What happened?
Police were allowed to go into people's homes and stop people on the street to prove that they belong in New Zealand.
- How did Stereotyping and Social Messaging play a role in this incident?
People with coloured skin were the only ones asked because they were "Foreigners"
- How has this protest impacted NZ?
Cops aren't allowed to go into people's houses without a warrant now.
Bastion Point
We did the same task with Mrs. Handley but today we learned about Bastion Point and what happened. We also had to answer similar questions.
- What happened?
The police were trying to demolish the places that people were living at Bastion Point because the Government wanted to build a housing development on it but the people who owned the land didn't want to.
- How did Stereotyping and Social Messaging play a role in this incident?
- How has this protest impacted NZ?
The land was eventually given back to the original owners on the 1st of July (Today) 1988
