Consider a time when you felt you had been the victim of prejudice or discrimination based on your race, sex, religion, socio-economic status, or other group mem-bership.

For example, as a white woman, it is hard for me to convince wait-ers that I want my food “spicy” at an Asian restaurant. My mother insists two women dining together get less desirable tables at restaurants than when either two men, or a man and a woman, dine together. Conversations at cocktail hours and dinner parties shift sharply once new acquaintances learn that I am a professor of psychology.

Write for a few minutes about the experience and detail what happened and how you were feeling at the time.

Consider whether the experience made you more or less likely to approach that person again. Another person from that person’s group?

How do you as a target of prejudice feel?