It's because when you break people down into numbers it dismisses individuality. People should be judged on a case by case basis. Prejudice is when you base your judgment on someone based on a pre determined perspective. Breaking the human being down into a classification that the person can not change is offensive because the person did not pick to be white/black/asian/hispanic ect. It's not like when we were born we had a choice on which race we would roll. Statistics and numbers only further a stereotype that an individual may be an exception to. Doing this perpetuates stereotypes.
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