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...ole. Groups do this by creating a common enemy, which every group member can relate with each other in hating. Allport proposes that instead of prejudice against people, we should rally around prejudice against poverty, disease, hunger, etc. He also proposes an in-group comprising all humanity, as a way to eliminate prejudice. . In-Groups From a baby, we are raised by people, whether they are related to us or not, it does not matter. These people influence our everyday lives, our decisions, and eventually our future. You might be saying, “That is not true, I am an independent.” But ask yourself this, how did you become an independent? What decisions led up to your announcement of independence? Was it because you did not want to think like your parents, was it because you wanted to be different from them? No matter what, each person is part of a in-group, a society. In Gordon Allport’s (1954), “The Formation of In-Groups,” he describes an in-group in a static society as “being fairly easy to predict just what loyalties the individual w...