Prejudice: A Negative Attitude Towards An Entire Category Of People

Prejudice is a negative attitude towards an entire category of people, often an ethnic or racial minority. Prejudice is giving the false information from just one person. For example, if a person walks into a restaurant and there are only African Americans in there, then the person might get the false impression of the restaurant. People look at either who is running the place or how many people are certain in groups are in one spot, then try to talk about how that specific group is doing some wrong. For example, a person is looking in a trailer park and decides to live there, until they see a white girl wearing a crop top, bootie shorts, a tattoo on her lower back, and she is also pregnant, and suddenly every White Girl that lives in a trailer

park is trash.

Truth is I am not prejudiced I look at everybody the same way. However, I cannot help that I was raised to believe that I should be racist towards Mexican and African Americans. On the other hand, I tried to avoid this conversation every time it came up. My dad is the one that is prejudice, every time he sees an African American walking down the road or driving very slowly he thinks that everyone is up to something or trying to spy on someone.

Another prejudice would be him seeing a Mexican in another person yard he automatically thinks that they are poor or looking for food. He thinks that all Mexicans are looking for a way to beg for a way to live. He also thinks that they are getting a free ride in America because they do not have to work as hard as people who were born in America. He thinks "all Mexican should go back to where they came from, they took all our jobs."