Prejudice, Discrimination, and The Oakies

1) Some of the causes for prejudice against The Okies were that they were competing with the locals for jobs, they were taking food-not much but still- out of the locals mouths, they were really overcrowding cities, and raising taxes. They came into California expecting more jobs than they could possibly imagine but that was really not the truth. They were eating food that they bought, stole, or killed and that took food from the locals. When they arrived in California they moved into cities which greatly increased the population, which in turn increased demand and lowered supply. When The Okies came they drove up property tax by 50%.

2) A lot of the prejudice that I see in todays world comes from the gay community. People are discriminating against them because they are different than other people. Politicians and normal every day people don't agree with their life style and don't give them the rights they deserve. Some causes for this prejudice comes from the how some churches don't believe that their beliefs are acceptable. Another cause is that what people teach thier children, not directly but through action, is that the normal couple is a man and a woman.