Why are white people racist?

Answer 1

White people are no more racist than most people. Also, keep in mind that not all things that are called racism really are. Often, what people object to is not race, but behaviors and ways of interacting with the world.

The above said, there are specific reasons why people become racist. Often, that is how they were raised and what they were exposed to. A few people become racists after one or more serious incidents involving people outside of their own race.

Answer 2

Some people are racist because of how they were raised. Although my personal opinion is that people find things they don't like about themselves and have to make everyone else of another color or nationality seem like less so they can feel better about themselves. I have black cousins and love them to death and I am white. Just as many white people as black people act stupid or in ways that m,ake people not want to be around tehm and then they leave a bad name for everyone else that color.

Answer 3

people are races because they don't like the colored people.they don't like others that are not their own kind. they are that way becaues either parents didnt teach them not to be like that or because they just don't like colored people.which is not right because we should like everyone. we shouldn't be judged by the way we look we should be juge by our characteristics.

Answer 4

Racism is fear, pure and simple. Any person that fears another person because of his personal characteristics, be it color, religion, or nationality, is prejudging someone else because of something that s/he fears.

The unknown is a powerful motivator. The person that fears any group because they are different than himself is racist. Attempts to dishonor another group because of this fear is baseless and truly ignorant. It is impossible to judge a group based on superficial externals.

Throughout the years, the ignorant have used racism to denigrate black people, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Chinese, Japanese, Russians, Irish, and Muslims. People are people, we are all the same. Simply because they look different or speak differently, they are discriminated against because of that difference, not for any real reason.

As long as there is a culture where individuals are supposedly part of an identified group that is unpopular, there will be racism. The shallow people who are overtly racist have, for the most part, never engaged the group they supposedly hate. They base their fear on hearsay and rumor, not on fact. In order to make themselves feel better, they try to belittle the group simply because they do not understand the culture or the language.

Racism is ignorance. Pure and simple, a racist has never engaged a member of the group he fears. He fears what he does not understand.

Answer 5

Poor self esteem, underlying self hatred and a limited view of the world and other people.