Thank you vhootee,  I might not be correct hundred percent as I spoke of those variables since all of us are different. But from a personal standpoint I grew up resenting a certain ethnicity/caste only because my racist/castist grandfather made derogatory comments about them all the time. And since I was expected to be under his tutelage and respect him without a slightest doubt on my mind.,I had retained that prejudice until I was 14.

Therefore I think I 'slightly' empathize with people whose beliefs and actions might have gestated out of their upbringing and environment they were raised in, some life changing events, some criticism they have received etc.. However it does not hold true for all, some of us are above and beyond all that and we develop our own nobility irrespective of what happened to us.