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Racism is a product of the complex interaction in a given society of a race-based worldview with prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. Racism can be present in social actions, practices, or political systems (e.g., apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices. The ideology underlying racist practices often includes the idea that humans can be subdivided into distinct groups that are different in their social behavior and innate capacities and that can be ranked as inferior or superior. Racism doesn't merely affect the relationship between blacks and whites; it also affects other races such as Inuits and regular Danish people (Denmark; specifically Greenland); Malay, Indian, and Chinese (Malaysian people); American and Brits; Mexican and Indigenous Americans (United States of America).
Effects of racism edit
Racism plagues mankind. We know that. Even nowadays, people still use rude terms such as "nigga" etc. towards people of the fellow species, Homo sapiens. It is not that our roots at birth dislike them. It is actually the fact that some of us were brought up knowing such terms and get taught that "those niggas are fools". People who used these terms should put themselves into the opposite race's shoes and look at the world in a different perspective.
Segregacism edit
Racial segregation separates black people and white people, most of the time barricading "black access" into "white areas". Sometimes discord, conflict, or even genocides could happen. Is this what the human race wants to happen? To quarantine and confine each other over the languages, dialects, skin color, plain appearance difference between us? No! Of course not! Note that I use the phrase "HUMAN RACE". Humans are a race altogether. Same species; generally same body structure.
Supremacism edit
Supremacism is known as "The belief that a particular race, religion, gender, or culture is superior to others, such that those who identify with it are entitled to dominate, control, or rule those who do not" according to Wiktionary. Centuries of European colonialism in the Americas, Africa and Asia were often justified by white supremacist attitudes. In other regions, other sorts of supremacy also exist. These are such as black supremacy or Arab supremacy. Before the American Civil War, the Confederate States of America was founded with a constitution that contained clauses restricting the government's ability to limit or interfere with the institution of "negro" slavery. In the Cornerstone Speech, Confederate vice president Alexander Stephens declared that one of the Confederacy's foundational tenets was white supremacy over black slaves. After the war, a secret society, the Ku Klux Klan, was formed in the South, with the purpose to "restore" white supremacy after the Reconstruction period, even though there still was white, Protestant supremacy in the United States, at the time.
Nazi supremacy during WWII edit
From 1933–1945, Nazi Germany, under the rule of Adolf Hitler, promoted the idea of a superior, Aryan Herrenvolk, or master race. The state's propaganda maintained that Germanic peoples, which they called "Aryan", were a master race or "Herrenvolk" that was superior to the Jews, Slavs, and Romani people, so-called "gypsies". Arthur de Gobineau, a French racial theorist and aristocrat, blamed the fall of the ancien régime in France on racial intermixing, which he argued destroyed the purity of the Nordic race. Gobineau's theories, which attracted a strong following in Germany, emphasized the existence of an irreconcilable polarity between Aryan and Jewish cultures. During that era, Jews were known as "Semitic race".
Violence and disputes edit
Many times, violence and disputes happen whenever sensitive subjects (e.g., a protest/a new law about racism) are brought up. Massacres and genocides could happen, if the people involved didn't have enough self-control. Examples of such events are the Malaysian 13 May Incident, where a riot occurred in the aftermath of the 1969 Malaysian general election; and the Armenian Genocide, which was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians, mostly Ottoman citizens within the Ottoman Empire and its successor state.
Ideology edit
Racism was first brought into the world during the early 19th century as "scientific racism", which attempted to provide a racial classification of mankind. Johann Blumenbach divided the world's population into five groups according to skin color (Caucasians, Mongols, etc.) in 1775, positing that the non-caucasians had arisen through a process of skin degeneration. I'm not going to go farther into the Ideology section. Read more here.
Anti-racism edit
Anti-racism includes beliefs, actions, movements, and policies which are adopted or developed in order to oppose racism. In general, it promotes an egalitarian society in which people are not discriminated against on the basis of race. Movements such as the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-Apartheid Movement were examples of anti-racist movements. Nonviolent resistance protests are sometimes embraced as an element of anti-racist movements, although this was not always the case. Hate crime laws, affirmative action, and bans on racist speech are also examples of government policy which is intended to suppress racism.
