ant take the blame themselves, so they posit it onto others.Like Allport, Loewenberg states that feelings of personal insecurity, deprivation, anxiety, and hostility are all linked to prejudice (Loewenberg 119). These feelings lead to the use of false information to identify people of color. An individuals needs are expressed by his prejudicial attitudes. The prejudiced person needs hate to maintain feelings of selfhood (Loewenberg 120). This is very similar to Allports statement that we form hatred of out-groups to preserve feelings of security. Loewenberg states that anxiety plays a role in forming prejudices. The greater the underlying anxiety of a person, the more prejudiced he is, because the pressure of his anxiety weakens his personal controls. Thus weakened, he seeks relief through prejudice, which serves to reduce anxiety because prejudice facilitates the discharge of hostility. Thus prejudice can help a person protect his individuality and maintain the emotional balance of a distorted personality (Loewenberg 120). Prejudice helps individuals function better in society. It satisfies their needs of a strong sense of ethnicity, sexual orientation, social status, personal identity, emotional strength, and personal control. By acting prejudicially, people gain control over their instinctual forces. It also lets a person feel better about themselves. This argument is similar to that of Cherrie Moragas La Guera. She states that it is not really difference that the oppressor fears so much as similarity. He fears he will discover n himself if the same aches, the same longings as those of the people he has *censored*ted on. He fears the immobilization threatened by his own incipient guilt. He fears he will have to change his life once he has seen himself in the bodies of the people he has called different. He fears the hatred, anger, and vengeance of those he has hurt (Moraga 32). Loewenberg is similar ...
