Prejudice

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Prejudice of Injury/Death and Opinions on Racism and Money

To me prejudice is getting injured in a car wreck, suicide, and a lot more stuff that involves death and injury. Prejudice can also be injury from sports, car wrecks, and a lot more activities that can injure you. Prejudice exists in the world because there is people that want to be dead or be suicidal there is also people who die of natural causes like cancer, organ cancer, organ failure, old age, and a lot more of diseases and natural causes. I think it also exists from injuries in sports like football, basketball, and especially soccer. It happens mostly in those three sports because they are more aggressive with the ball and there in more movement in their bodies, in football
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It can be not being paid as much as the other person that does the same thing as you, or if you are a women and the men get paid more than you because they are built more for that job and you don’t think that’s fair to you. The reason it exists in the world because people find out that another person is getting paid more or getting raised better. Something to do to counter prejudice is to argue about something that you think isn’t fair to yourself or for someone else, another way is that you have an opinion to something. Prejudice could also be arguing about your race and what you believe in, or if who has more money. There is people that are black Christians, and there is athletic black people there is also some black people that are mean. There are also white people who act the same as black people, like there is white people that are Christians, there are athletic white people, and there is also bad white people who have done crime. There is people that are wealthy and have a lot of money, and there is also poor people that don’t have a much money as the wealthy people. There is some wealthy people who donate money to the poor and charity for a foundation for sick people or who have cancer or something like that. And there is also wealthy people who keep their money to themselves and don’t share it with anyone or don’t give it away to the homeless or to the

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