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Read here>>http://www.thefreedictionary.com/prejudice

It means to pre-  judge someone,or a group of like people, untill/ before you get to know them.

you pre-judge someone before you get any information about them. you judge from the limited information in your head, put out maybe from the media, your family, your associates. like when i was in junior we thought all asians were smart.  i've talk to some since grown and they say all of us asians are not smart.  people use to say black people were dumb and could not read.  But back i slavery black people were killed is caught with a book or trying to read.  Lots of times or interactions with others come from some type of stereotype or pre-judged thought which has somehow been programmed into our brains.  Very difficult to get rid of and some are good to keep.  Like if you a person walking down a dark alley with a baseball bat or chain and maybe gun, your pre-judgement might suggest you go the other way.  prejudice like everything has a good & bad side.  It's situational like everything else.  No black and white here, which is the easy way out.