prejudice
Prejudice is the negative pre-judgement that a stubborn person arrives on based on his conventional thinking. ... Prejudice is a two-sided issue. There are those intolerant and unreceptive people who hold the prejudice and those pitiable people at whom the prejudice is aimed. Racial prejudice has existed for centuries. ... Fortunately last several decades have witnessed measurable improvements in the way that we treat one another and as the wheels of time enter the twentieth century, racial prejudice is being reduced and when weighed against the early twentieth-century or the nineteenth century there is an increase in tolerance between different races. Following racial prejudice, religious prejudice stands next. Religious prejudice came about as individuals fostered different beliefs and carried out their duty to spread religion and enlighten the unaware. Racial prejudice also sprouted from the jealousy cultivated by individuals that the other religion is more ‘blessed’ than theirs and with this inferiority complex people became hostile to other religions.