"Understanding Prejudices." Do you understand how prejudice happens?

What I have come to understand is that we are all prejudice. That prejudice is a belief; we all are a function of group membership. All my life I was taught that being prejudice came along with dislike to people who are identified different and have different views from me. I use to associate prejudice with race and would quickly look at anyone in disgust who treated some one unfairly, because they were of a different race. But, I have gained some knowledge that prejudice is not just hate of a different race, ignorance. We learned prejudice as a child; learned them as if they are the truth, that when we are adults, and faced with these early learning, we are tested and challenge, and it then how we react to change when we evaluate the learning. I also believe that anger can trigger prejudice, for example, to justify behavior one can stereotype, which can cause negative beliefs. These negative beliefs can be stereotype on gender, religion and race. As I had stated before that, we are all prejudice to some extent. We have some people who categorize themselves into groups, which are known as “in-group”. In these groups they share a feeling of common identity, which unintentional form the “out-group”, who is more similar to one another. With being stereotypical, one sometimes is very resistant to new information, and with this, it also places us as being prejudice. Can we change our personal patterns of prejudice? Yes we can. If what we learned as individual about other people or culture and acknowledge the differences, that is when we can change. We need to “self talk” and changed the early stereotypical beliefs that was instill in us. One needs to try to replace anything that is negative with the positive and allowing nonjudgmental behavior. Taking the time to find out what is untrue about other culture is a step to being open and nonjudgmental also. We need to not limit ourselves to what we learned as children about other group or culture, but open our mind and learn about their indifferences. It is this indifference that makes us unique. From reading the various articles, I understand how prejudice happens. I understand that I have to seek self-understanding and be aware of people, to accept oneself and others. Finally, I have to behave in a manner where I value diversity in everyone and go an extra mile to understand their differences