Prejudice

Prejudice means pre-judging someone based on their gender, political opinion, age, sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality, religion, social class disability/abilities or other personal characteristics. Prejudice is present in our lives since ages ago. Stereotypes are created by people that have a formed idea of certain group of people or individual. The idea that every person is one way or another based on their looks despiting their personalities is very wrong. In society we need to deal with all types of prejudice and/or discriminations. Prejudice and discrimination go along because most times when someone is pre judged it is related to something bad, such as saying that all black people are dangerous. But prejudice can come in positive ways to, such as saying that all people in Germany are polite and nice. But even though prejudice can come in positive ways, most of them are negative. Prejudice can change lives in many ways, people can have more opportunities or chances to get a nice job if they look a certain way. Also, if you're not approved by society you can suffer discrimination and that can affect you in many ways.

There are many types of prejudice. Such as:

Racism - based on races

Sexism -  based on someone's sexuality

Classicism - based on people’s socioeconomic class

Homophobia -  prejudice based on homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT)

Nationalism - based on someone's nationality

Religious prejudice - based on someone's religion and/or ethnicity

Agism - stereotypes of individuals based on their age