Prejudice In Lady Gaga's Song Born This Way

“Born This Way” is a song written by Lady Gaga that discusses many different Sociology viewpoints. The songs main message is to love yourself regardless of what you are racially or sexually and to ignore the people who put you down. One of the bigger sociological aspects in this song is Prejudice, a negative attitude based on faulty generalizations towards members of specific ethnic, racial, or other groups (Kendall 270). “Born This Way” mentions in the lyrics “Whether life’s disabilities left you outcast, bullied, or teased”. This lyric alone has multiple sociological aspects that can applied to it, however Prejudice is show through this lyric because it explains that people of race and different are victims of prejudice because of what they are. Another
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