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Prejudice is having a negative opinion about something or someone when you have no real reason to have that opinion, because you have either never experienced it or never met the specific person you are being prejudiced toward. It is also being negatively bias against someone or something. Prejudice is bad, and there is no place in our world today for it.
I think that prejudice exists in the world because people do not think about and respect how there are VERY many differences in the world around us. Just because there are differences in the world does not make those people who are different bad. Prejudice happens because we make judgement without getting to know people for who they are, not for what they look like or what

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