"prae-judicum"

Interesting - I did not know about the roots of the word 'prejudice.' To quote the paper, the roots in latin mean "before" & "a judgment." I think that I before considered prejudice and stereotypes to be pretty much the same. In reading, it seems that they are very closely related - stereotypes seem to be the dominant images and 'shortcuts' that we take in almost pretending that we know someone before we do because of the 'group or classification' we put them under that we think we know about, and then the 'prejudice' comes in form of opinions or expectations that we have for that group or classification. Both are not fair to others, and tend to place barriers between us as a human family, but both are extremely tempting to use on a daily basis as we interact with others who we may not be ready to invest the time to get to know.