In my research into the differences between prejudice and discrimination I have found that people in society have blurred the lines between the two words. We often see one being misused for the other even though they have completely different meanings, actions, and thoughts. In the purest form of the word, prejudice is feeling differently towards a certain group or groups that have a trait that they do not like or agree with. Everyone can be and is prejudice at some point in their life. Discrimination is where a person has prejudice towards a person or group of people and takes action. In today's society we tend to want to group the two together and make them seem like they are the ultimate evil, but in reality one is a common place occurrence that is usually kept behind closed doors while the other is not a good thing and can lead some to horrible actions. When I researched the two words I immediately noticed the way that they can be grouped together. I noticed that it is one trait as humans that we can't escape as hard as we try. It does not matter what race, gender, sexual orientation, or social class that you belong to there will always be one thing that makes us feel prejudice. Prejudice stems from the way that we as humans stereotype each other. Prejudice is usually completely unjustified and has no roots in reality. It is a positive or negative attitude towards people or groups for the way that they interact socially. I realized that in some cases prejudice can lead to the person feeling like they need to discriminate. In other cases, I noticed that at some point every person on this earth has prejudice towards someone or some group. It is such a common occurrence that most people don't even realize that they do it till they get called out about it. In the case of discrimination, we often see the more extreme actions within people. The most recent memory of discrimination is in the case of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin. In what started off as simple prejudice because of Martin's race, Zimmerman quickly escalated his personal prejudice towards African Americans into discrimination. When Zimmerman decided to follow Martin in an attempt to provoke him so that he could take the law into his own hands, Zimmerman allowed his prejudice to evolve into a very strong discrimination. Zimmerman allowed his discrimination to create a situation that ended in a tragedy that gripped the nation and could have so easily been avoided. The most famous discrimination was in World War II when Adolf Hitler started concentration camps and work camps to kill and torture the Jews. He had such an extreme prejudice that it led him to discriminate against them and even treat some as animals instead of humans. In the ultimate case of bigotry, discrimination, and prejudice, nearly six million people died. People were misinformed and led down the same road of discrimination and hate as their beloved leader. It was mostly over trivial things such as wealth and social status within the worlds society. He blamed Jews for losing World War I, the government problems in Germany, and the economic problems that plagued Germany after being forced to pay reparations for the war. Hitler projected his anger and hatred on to those around him. He used his psychological knowledge to convince and manipulate a whole nation to discriminate against the whole Jewish race as well as gypsy and Slavic races, and any person who opposed him. He discriminated against anyone who was not blonde and blue eyed because to him that was the superior race. In conclusion, prejudice and discrimination are two different things, but are often mixed together. It often starts with prejudice and escalates to discrimination when one takes action. This often leads to tragedies whether it be smaller like the Zimmerman case or larger like Hitler and the Holocaust. Prejudice often can fuel discrimination and can cause hatred and psychological damage. Like fear hatred is like a disease. It will consume anyone who engage and welcomes it. If you feed it, it will grow and grow till it makes it's victims succumb to their demise. For Hitler, fear and hatred fueled him to a point, but killed him in the end. If one does not simply feel hatred, then he is not simply feared. Like so many things in this world today, prejudice and discrimination will always be prevalent in our lives whether it is welcomed or not.