Well, this is an interesting thread, innit? I appreciate the people here being so honest, so I'll be honest also.
Yes, in some ways, I believe I am prejudiced. I live in the US, and I feel most people here are prejudiced from a young age, but it's an internal type of prejudice. Let's just make an obvious example and say it's a white/black thing. Outwardly, in my real life, I have had a lot of black friends who I've gotten along with just great. But there's always an unspoken knowledge that you're not the same. We are products of not only our heredity, but also of our environment. We are affected from a young age by our peers. And unfortunately, we and our peers have been raised with a distrust of anyone different than we are. So when I was a kid, being white, other kids would call blacks "niggers", and so did I. And if a black person makes me mad, or crosses me in some way, I have to admit I will still use the word.
I'm trying to be honest, here, and I hope if any black members are reading this, that they appreciate that. Because it's my suspicion that as black people, you have done the same thing towards whites. But even though that deep seated racism exists in me, and most people, I believe...still, in practice I have tried to overcome it. I have had, and do have, black friends that I have loved like any other friend. I would never dream of insulting them by making any references to their color, nor would I with Asians, or Mexicans, or anyone else. But unfortunately, there is a deep seated regognition within all of us that always makes us aware of our differences. I don't think that can be basically erased from our psyche, no matter how we react to other races. So, I guess tolerance is the key, here. We may not like bums, or dirty addicts, or physically handicapped people may make us uncomfortable, but logically we remind ourselves that they're people, just like us, and try to rise above our baser instincts to embrace them as fellow travellers through this acid trip we call life.
my understanding is that we all make distinctions between ourselves and others- perhaps not fair ones in some cases- but hell we need to keep at arms length those we think may harm us- its natural. also i differentiate between prejudice- for me the thinking, and discrimination- the acting upon. 
