... may include five different examples: · Antilocution: hostility via verbal expression, verbal denigration & insult, racial jokes and references. · Avoidance: keeping a distance but not inflicting physical harm. · Discrimination: exclusion from civil rights, decent housing and employment. · Extermination: indiscriminate violence against an individual or a whole group, including Genocide. When we observe `prejudiced behaviour ` by an individual or group, it is apparent that these people are of an Authoritarian personality i.e. they look up to Authority and respect it accordingly, but look down upon those that they believe to be inferior to themselves. This automatically creates an `in & out` group. I will now examine the beliefs of the Ku-Klux-Klan (hereafter referred to as the KKK), and this groups ethnocentric belief that white Anglo-Saxon culture supercedes that of all other races, particularly Afro-Caribbean, African, Indian and Jewish cultures. The KKK actively practices disinhibition i.e. they direct their energies and anger at minority ...

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