Racism and Prejudice

As we were discussing about prejudice and race in class , i could not help but think about the difference between racism and prejudice. Prejudice , in some ways, may have nothing to do with race . Prejudice comes from "prejudge", usually , unfairly but not always which is making comments, having different ideas about someone's race, ethnicity, religion, behavior or anything that people could think of without even knowing them. Racism is to judge or usually prejudge someone about their race . I think the prejudice is that when you think of someone , not a specific race but when you think of racism people usually think that racism is to have opinions about a specific race rather than a person.

I think racism mentions about different people from different places but Prejudice does not. For instance, Everyone could be "prejudged" against a certain kind of food. On the other hand Racism includes skin color, customs, location and all kinds of people. . We still could think that they are similar to each other but Prejudice covers Racism in a larger view.Including the race you could find economic class, sexual orientation , age and religion, gender or sex.Prejudice could be used to illustrate beliefs about other things as well.Lots of people may feel that they are not prejudice or they think that they do not have anything to judge but We, as human beings all have prejudices against whatever. Even in daily life we all prejudice something even though we do not even notice.

Ibrahim

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