"Prejudice is a disease we can never get rid of". Discuss.

As defined by Wikipedia, prejudice is an evaluation or decision made before the facts of a case could be properly determined and weighed.

As such, I agree that prejudice is a disease we can never get rid of. It is by human nature to form opinions about someone or something. However, it is usually based on whatever limited knowledge we have about the subject. Thus, its inevitable that the opinions formed would be biaesed to a certain extent. Moreover, the opinions we form are often in league with the general opinions of the society we are in. This did not occur as a result of coincidence but more due to the social pressure we feel that force us to alter our opinion to coincide as closely as possible with that of the society. Furthermore, such phenomenon is evident in every culture, organisation and community. An example would be racial discrimmination of the African Americans by the Whites in United States. The kids were brought up in a culture that deem most African Americans as crimminals and where it was alright to call them “niggers”. These childrem were brought up with this mentality and it is then passed down the generations. This cause the African Americans to be ensnared within the trap of prejudice and discrimmination, unable to break through it. Thus, prejudice is an undesirable trait of human that will stay with us just like a disease we can never get rid of.

Having said that, prejudice may never be rid of but it can be minimised that it is almost non-existent.. This can be achieved by cultivating one’s character to be more understanding, more objective in one’s thinking, more open minded and less egoistic. Till that goal is achieved, prejudice would be a disease detrimental to the health of the human race.