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What is prejudice? Where does prejudice come from? Write me 7- 9 sentence

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Prejudice is an affective feeling towards a person based on their perceived group membership. The word is often used to refer to a preconceived, usually unfavourable, evaluation of another person based on that person's political, beliefs, values, social class, age, disability, religion, education, criminality, sport team affiliation or other personal characteristics. Prejudice can also refer to unfounded or pigeonholed belief, and it may include "any unreasonable attitude that is unusually resistant to rational influence". Gordon Allport defined prejudice as a "feeling, favorable or unfavorable, toward a person or thing, prior to, or not based on, actual experience".

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