There are several social groups in the world today that differ from one another and each of them have attributes associated to them. When we see a group and immediately express a negative reaction to them, we are prejudiced toward that social group. When we have a prejudice to a group as a whole, we transfer this feelings to a member of that group based on their membership to the group. Prejudice is important in understanding the ways we see others and how this can affect ourselves. Prejudice can be defined as opinions or responses we have about groups, individuals or other things that are not based on personal experience or knowledge. Because we are raised with different prejudices, we unconsciously associate traits to groups without getting to know them. We tend to be more comfortable with people who are the same as we are and we dislike those who are on the outside. Prejudices develop when we feel threatened by a group of people. We hate them because we feel like they are better than us and we hate to feel below average. Research has suggested that we express prejudice toward groups as a way to protect our self-esteem. We want to see our groups as superior to others and if an attempt is made to devalue our group, we tend to retaliate by degrading the origin of the threat. Prejudice can also come into play when we are in competition with another group and the outcome is that one group gets a reward and the other does not. As the competition gets stronger, the members of each group begin to respond more negatively to the other and the only way to get them to expel these prejudices is to give them a common goal. When we learn that the only way to get a reward is to work together with members of an out-group, we tend to slowly dispel our negative feelings and learn that the other group is not as bad as we thought. We are biased in our association of prejudice to some groups and none to others. Even when confronted with this, we w