Desactiva tus prejuicios

Desactiva tus prejuicios… y piénsalo otra vez aims to help adolescents and young people identify discriminatory prejudices and stereotypes—the foundation of discourses and behaviors that go against equality and respect—particularly those related to gender, sexual identity, racism, xenophobia, ageism, or any other form of discrimination.

To achieve this, the project promotes the use of performing arts in general, and theatre in particular, as a tool to identify and challenge these prejudices among adolescents and young people. In addition to a guide offering proposals for using social theatre as an educational resource, we organize a national contest open to youth theatre groups, providing a platform to showcase and give value to their efforts in fighting discrimination.

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Research: Survey on Harmful Prejudices Among Spanish Youth

In this research, with the aim of contributing to the construction of a pluralistic, inclusive, and tolerant society that respects diverse communities and groups, we have focused on analyzing the issue of harmful stereotypes and prejudices. To do so, we adopted an innovative approach that considers both the reception and the expression of prejudice among young people, offering survey data that complements a previous qualitative analysis published in 2020.

Stereotypes and prejudices involve beliefs, generalizations, and judgments about other people or social groups based on their personal and physical characteristics, lifestyles, ideologies, gender identities, ethnic origins, or sexual orientations, among other factors. These are limiting beliefs that feed into young people’s vulnerability, as they affect not only their intimacy and personal identity, but also their ability to navigate and interact in public spaces.

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Research: "Beliefs That Sustain the Generation of Harmful Stereotypes and Prejudices"

This research has a clear purpose: to understand the beliefs that, within the sample studied, sustain the harmful stereotypes and/or prejudices that influence how individuals relate to others—whether within their closest, more intimate circles or within broader social environments that involve a greater number of relationships.

The study succeeds in capturing the intersection between the particularities of their “biographical time”—which defines them in terms of ideas, emotions, preferences, and more—and the spaces where they interact with others, sharing their intimacy to varying degrees.

Research: Youth and Racism: A Study on Racist and Xenophobic Perceptions and Attitudes Among Young People in Spain

As part of our collaboration with Meta, we present this study on young people’s attitudes toward discrimination, racism, and xenophobia. As we already observed in the previous study, “Deactivate Your Prejudices: Survey on Harmful Prejudices Among Spanish Youth,” sociocultural diversity is identified as the main factor generating prejudice and stereotypes among young people. This is why we sought to explore this dimension further.

This report is based on a survey conducted among young people in Spain about racist and/or xenophobic behaviors, perceptions, and attitudes. It allows us to gauge the current state and evolution of these perspectives. The opinions and attitudes of young people are essential in understanding the development of discriminatory phenomena and how these may evolve in the coming decades.

As we always stress, we cannot speak of “youth” as a singular, homogeneous category, but rather of young people in a wide range of life circumstances and positions, where gender, age, material deprivation, or ideology create important differences in how reality is interpreted, how relationships are formed, and how social and personal challenges are identified.

The report shows that the prevailing discourse is largely non-racist. However, there is a minority—around 25%—who hold ambiguous views or express rejection toward certain groups or toward the implementation of some inclusion policies.

The study also addresses topics such as the impact of having experienced discriminatory behavior on the likelihood of reproducing it, and how the presence of sociocultural diversity in one’s close environment influences attitudes toward racism and xenophobia. In addition, several indices were developed to measure anti-racist attitudes, resistance to allowing ethnic minorities access to positions of power, and reluctance to engage socially with people from minority backgrounds.

Ultimately, identifying the areas where acceptance and support for a diverse society must be strengthened is essential to the process of eradicating racism and xenophobia—and this is the main goal of the project.

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