Prejudice Flows From Ignorance By Gordon W. Allport

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Gordon W Allport said that 'prejudice flows from ignorance' he means that people made pre-decided bad opinions and big statements on groups of people based on very little knowledge they had of that group . An example of this is in football when the crowd say horrible things to black people when in fact they hardly have any information of that person but they already have pre-decide bad decisions on them because of their race or religion. In football they very often criticise people on their race for example they might say " You suck" or "You shouldn't be in the team" or other horrible things like "Get back to your own country". When really they have limited information about the character and they are presuming that they are not really