Gordon Allport The Language Of Prejudice Summary

“The Language of Prejudice” by Gordon Allport is an informative description of the usage of judgments and stereotypes that people do not realize how often they use. The categories of these discriminations correlate to the discrimination that American pregnant and parenting teens receive. Unjust discrimination against pregnant and parenting teens has continued to rise, in education and religious settings. Pregnant and parenting teens are being discriminated against due to the fact of their age and education status, this is an ongoing social problem and it is unethical. According to the Curriculum Review, “In 2009, 409,840 infants were born to mothers between 15 and 19, for a live birth rate of 39.1 per 1,000 women in this age group” (10). Although teen pregnancies and teen parenting are still prevalent in the United States, this alone does not make justify Americans to treat these teens as though they are toxic to society and the education system. Pregnant and parenting teens face much discrimination in the American education …show more content…
Similarly, the bulk of a community should not have the right to exile a family from a neighborhood, simply based on their difference of ethnicity. Along with this, members of various churches discriminate against the pregnant and parenting teens by labelling them as “sinners”, “impure,’ and even “sluts”. This, the author would likely define as a “rejective category.” According to Allport, “When these labels are employed, we can be almost certain that the speaker intends not only to characterize the person’s membership, but also to disparage and reject him” (327). Whether intended or not the members of the church are putting these teens in an outcaste category by putting these harsh labels on them and placing them into an excluded