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The word is "prejudice," and it means prejudgment--an opinion formed before ("pre") you have any information or reason for the opinion.
When it's ethnic, racial, or religious prejudice, it is usually negative (an opinion against some member of the group or the group as a whole). It usually means that you make some kind of judgment against people when all you know is their color or language or religion. For example, if you make a generalization about everyone who speaks a certain language ("People who speak xxxx are lazy"), that's prejudice. Or you take one look at a person and see their ethnicity from their appearance, and so you think you know what they are like. That's prejudice. It's also prejudice if you think well of someone just because they belong to a certain group; for example, "He belongs to my race, so he must be innocent" (nobody of your race ever committed a crime?) or "She speaks my language, so she must be a good candidate for the job" (all people of your language group are automatically best at everything?).
Prejudice works both ways and is always a bad substitute for knowledge of the individual person.
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