Prejudice!
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts.
- free online dictionary
Based on the definition, it could be told that. Prejudice is to falsely conceive a idea without having acknowledged the truth. A simple example would be that of recism. Racism occurs when a person of white-skinned despises those of other skin colours and gives special priviledges to those of their skin colour, unfairly.
However, it has always occured to me, what is the roots of this word. How was this word created? Is it latin or greek? Does 'pre' mean before and 'judice' linking to judical, something to do with the law? So, together, before being under trial? That's something i would definitely like to find out?