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People will always be prejudices, everyone has their own morals. Everyone will be judged by the cover, not by what is going on. Many people have their own perspectives on what they support.

When People are prejudice they tend to forgot the facts, and what is actually going on instead they judge you on the way you look and how you talk. Like in the story “ Twelve Angry Men” eleven men say he is guilty, just on the fact that an old man heard screaming. That is not a fact that it happen but they all believed it did.

Everyone will never change how they feel about the situation, only will their feelings change based on your skin and the way you talk. What you do for a living plays a big role in the way you are look upon. So yes people will

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