ABSTRACT
While genocide – the systematic destruction of an entire cultural, ethnic or racial group – is the most extreme form of discrimination, the prejudice that underlies it is essentially the same as that which underlies less extreme behaviours. Prejudice is an attitude that can be expressed in many ways, or that may not be overtly or openly expressed at all. Like other attitudes, prejudice can be regarded as a disposition to behave in a prejudiced way (to practise discrimination). So, the relationship between prejudice and discrimination is an example of the wider debate concerning the attitude-behaviour relationship (see Chapter 10).
