Examples Of Bias In The Short Film 'Silent Beats'

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In the short film “Silent Beats” there was many signs of bias between the clerk running the store and his customers. Bias is a prejudice in favour or against one thing, person, or group compare to another, usually in a way considered to be unfair. For example: Someone can be bias to a specific person for there race, religion, or even creed based on past events that occured with people who shared the same race, religion, or creed as them.
A few forms of bias were shown in the short film we watched yesterday, some towards the white old lady and some towards the black teenager. For example: The clerk had a negative bias towards the black teenager and thought that he was going to try and shoplift or rob him so he spent his whole time watching the

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