A few guidelines for racist messages

- make sure not to refer to race when it's irrelevant

-avoid attributing economic or social problems to the race of the individual 

-avoid interacting with members of other races through stereotypes perpetuated by the media

Heterosexist

Involve attitudes and behavior that disparage gay or lesbian as well as a belief that all sexual behavior that is not heterosexual is unnatural and deceiving of criticism and condemnation 

A few suggestion for avoiding heterosexist

-avoid offensive nonverbal mannerisms that parody stereotypes 

-avoid complimenting gay and lesbian

-avoid making assumption

-avoid denying individual differences

Ageism

Ageism refer to prejudice against other age groups. Discrimination based on age usually signifies discrimination the old.

-avoid talking down 

-speak at normal volume

-engage older people in conversation as you would wish to be engaged

Sexism 

To practice or support favoritism that criticizeds or having a bias towards a specific gender

-avoid using man generically

-stay away from sex-role stereotypes 

Cultural identifiers 

Used in talking to and about members of different cultures language that is free of sexism,heterosexist,racism,sizeism or ageism

Affectional orientation

Refer to gay is the preferred term to refer to a man who has an affectional orientation toward other men, and lesbian is the preferred term for a woman who an affectional orientation toward other women

Age and sex

Older people refer to elder,elderly,senior or senior citizen

Term girl should be used to refer to a very young female and is equivalent to boy

Woman and young woman is preferred

Using verbal messages effectively

Language symbolizes reality

Intensional orientation is tendency to view people,objects and events according to the way they're talked aboutu

Extensional orientation is tendency to look first at the actual people,object

S and events and only afterwards at their labels.

Language expresses both fasts and inferences

Inferential statement-statements you make on the basis not only of what you observe

Factual statement-must be made by the observer after observation and must be limited to what is observed 

Language is relatively static

Static evaluation is tendency to retain evaluation without change while the reality to which they refer is changing

Language can obscure distinctions

Indiscrimination is the failure to distinguish between similar but different peoples

Polarization

Tendency to look at the world in terms of opposites and to describe it on extremes