Bigotry, at its core, is an expression of prejudice that ones opinion or point of view is correct to the exclusion of all others. The bigot is a person who demonstrates a very black and white view on the world within the framework of his own morality, faith, politics, and culture and believes absolutely in the universal correctness of this framework. The effect, then, is that when the bigot expresses himself along these lines, the communication follows a very linear path and one that remains significantly inflexible. It is the purpose of this paper to explore the nature of bigotry from a psychological and social point of view.
