Example Of Prejudice Research Paper

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A lot of times when we hear the word prejudice we automatically assume it has to do with race, which could be the case but not all the time. Prejudice can be found everywhere when it comes to gender,culture,religion, and sports. The definition of prejudice is an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason. So our own prejudices basically are for no reason or what we have been, though. We learn these prejudices because of our parents,the news, our experience, and the people were around. Prejudice has been a problem in our world since the beginning of time most of our historical events is off prejudices like segregated schools, the murder of Jewish people by the Nazis in World War 2, and slavery. We still …show more content…

A good example of this is the Baltimore riots, I remember coming to class hearing students talk about how every black person from the hood are criminals because of what the news showed. They didn't even care to know what they were protesting for. Another example is every time I go to a convenience store the clerk always watches me and my friends thinking were stealing. Like I said early being prejudice is without knowledge and reason. Sadly this world is full of people having a negative perspective about others, even if they don't know them. Unfortunately, I’m part of that group that has a personal opinion about a different race or culture. To say I don't have any prejudices against others or another's culture I’ll be lying. I’m not happy about the opinions I have but it

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