Prejudice In Today's Society

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Prejudice is very much still a social issue of today’s society. Prejudice goes around to every group of people. Many people believe that prejudice is something of the past. Prejudice happens to everyone no specific group escapes it. Prejudice has been around since bible times. In the bible when God separated the Jew and gentiles from the line of Jacob being the Jews and everyone else being the gentiles. This would be the start of prejudice. As times has changed people have created even more categories to be prejudice about. Categories being Blacks, whites, Gays, straights, poor, rich, Etc. Prejudiced has been thrown around in today’s society when someone’s “image” is being misjudged. People have separated themselves into categories based on

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