Prejudice is preference.
Racism is hatred.
HUGE difference. Everyone is prejudice, in race, in food, in culture.
Doesn't mean everyone is racist, and hates all other things outside of their preference.
A
prejudice is a prejudgment: i.e. an assumption made about someone or something before having adequate knowledge to be able to do so with guaranteed accuracy. The word
prejudice is most commonly used to refer to a preconceived judgment toward a people or a person because of
race,
social class,
gender,
ethnicity,
age,
disability, political beliefs,
religion, sexual orientation or other personal characteristics. It also means beliefs without knowledge of the facts
[1] and may include "any unreasonable attitude that is unusually resistant to rational influence.
Racism is the belief that the
genetic factors which constitute
race are a
primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an
inherent superiority of a particular race.
[1] Racism's effects are called "racial discrimination." In the case of
institutional racism, certain racial groups may be denied rights or benefits, or receive preferential treatment.
Racial discrimination typically points out
taxonomic differences between different groups of people, although anyone may be discriminated against on an ethnic or cultural basis, independently of their somatic differences. According to the
United Nations conventions, there is no distinction between the term
racial discrimination and
ethnicity discrimination.
There is some evidence that the meaning of the term has changed over time, and that earlier definitions of racism involved the simple belief that human populations are divided into separate races.
[2] Many biologists, anthropologists, and sociologists reject this taxonomy in favor of more specific and/or empirically verifiable criteria, such as geography,
ethnicity, or a history of
endogamy.
[3]
