prejudice in society theme

The subject of preconceived (typically unfavorable) notions about a group of people in society is explored.

Notes

The themes "hatred in society" or "ethnic hatred" are more appropriate in cases where there is hostility but not necessarily any preconceived notions. A people at war may, for example, quite logically hate their enemy on account of that enemy being demonstrably organized to do murder.

13 total · 3 choice · 6 major · 4 minor

Story	Level	Motivation
movie: X-Men (2000)	choice	The mutants in this society were the target of prejudice and xenophobia.
movie: X-Men Last Stand (2006)	choice	An element of society saw mutancy as a disease that needed to be cured, but most mutants didn't see their condition as a disease of any sort.
movie: X2 (2003)	choice	The mutants in this society were the target of prejudice and xenophobia.
bbf3x14	major	Bester looked down his nose at non-telepaths.
movie: Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994)	major	People were prejudiced against the Newcomer aliens. In particular, Susan's neighbor kindly requested that she keep her Newcomer children in the house while some prospective buyers toured her home.
movie: Alien Nation: The Enemy Within (1996)	major	George in particular, and the Newcomer aliens in general, were bigoted against the Eenos.
movie: Daft Punks Electroma (2006)	major	The towns-robots persecuting the two human wannabe robots and driving them out of town is interpretable as an act of machine prejudice against humans.
movie: Flatland (2007)	major	The Chromatists were a vocal but discriminated against minority in Flatland.
movie: Gattaca (1997)	major	We saw a society in which people were systematically discriminated against based on their genetics. This was called "genoism" in the film.
ds91x04	minor	Odo was accosted by an angry mob who called him "freak" and "murderer". In this situation he met with prejudice because he looked deformed, rather than because of his foreign origin.