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Racism
Racism is a type of prejudice towards a certain racial group, usually a minority. People can carry out unjust acts towards these people through limited citizenship rights, social discrimination, hate crimes, etc. This type of prejudice still exists in many parts of the world.
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Besides the fact that this is really two questions, this topic would tend to be considered very subjective. To answer your first question, racism persists while overt prejudice is less prevalent in different ways. Reading Newsweek or Time magazines will probably reveal some example of some study showing how it still exists. One example of how it exists in hiring practices was demonstrated when two sets of resumes were sent to different companies; one set with White/Caucasian-sounding names and the other with Black/African-descendant-sounding names (according to those who did the study, not me). The names were the only differences; the credentials were (supposedly) identical. After they were sent out, the group making the study recorded how many of each group got call backs or offers for an interview. The results showed that the group with White/Caucasian-sounding names got the majority of positive responses. While I'm a little hesitant to accept that study's results outright, I think it warrants merit. As for your second question, the best way to promote tolerance in your town or city is to begin exhibiting tolerance from yourself. Do you come across people who don't look like you and get weary or suspicious for no reason? Do you feel one group of people is the cause for a specific problem in society? If so, you need to look at yourself (and maybe your comments and mannerisms) before you go after your town or another one. Even if you're not racially prejudiced, maybe you are in other ways. Do you look down on homosexuality or make gay jokes? Do you stay away from people because of their religious practices or just cause they look weird in their odd headwear? Tolerance is a human issue, not a color one, and if people don't demonstrate it outright, it won't spread that far. Ghandi once said "Be the change you want to see in the world." Sounds like a saying you (or the people you had in mind when asking) should listen to.
What would life be like without money?
We would revert to a barter system - exchanging goods directly (ex: I trade you ten chicken and two pounds of cheese for your bicycle) instead of going through money.
See related link for problems with barter.
It depends on what guy is ignoring you. If you like someone a lot and they ignore you then they either don't feel the same about you or could be shy. Men think that women are a mystery, but in truth, both sexes are a real mystery and I doubt we'll ever be able to figure each other out. Men think different from women and while women can sometimes thinking about the romance of a relationship that could happen or is happening, often men can be 1,000 miles away and thinking about what the score is going to be on the next football game.
If there is more than one guy ignoring you, does there have to be a reason? It would be a whole lot better if you could answer my post and give me a bit more information so I could give you more constructive advice.
Marcy
men are spineless freaks,they just ignore u because they havnt got the courage to be honest hence that's why they ignore u
There are two types of segregation. The first type is called de jure segregation. De jure means segregation because of a law, mandate, or forced reason. Examples of this are aparthied, and different schools for different races. The other type is de facto. De facto is because its how we're wired. It's like blacks sitting on one side, and Hispanics on the other side of a room, just because those are their friends. It is not forced. Examples of this are dating people only in your race, and Little Haiti or Chinatown.
Racism like any other form of bigotry and oppression is absolutely wrong because it denigrates and dehumanizes people. Every creature on this planet has the inalienable right to be treated with dignity. No person or group has the right to proclaim social superiority over any other. It is absolutely wrong /unjust for any person or group to vilify, oppress, persecute and terrorize others for their selfish amusement or aggrandizement. Its socially unacceptable.
'How' or 'why' is racism wrong.
First, racism does not mean that all races are the same - far from it. We know, for example that there are some diseases that are more prevalent in some races than others - as an example, sickle-cell anaemia effects far more black people than white people because of their genetic make-up. The genetic make-up of black people, Caucasian people and Asians are all very slightly different because it is precisely those differences that makethose people black, Caucasian or Asian in looks.
However, the real problems arise when these differences between races are seen as an excuse to favour one kind of person over another. In recent years white people were oppressing the black and Asian in South Africa; we saw different black tribes murdering each other in Rwanda; white people 'ethnically cleansing' other white people in former Yugoslavia, just because they are 'different'. And racism is still very much present in society - especially in parts of the USA and Australia, where blacks are still treated as second class citizens and Aborigines still treated with distain. A country can make rules and laws against racial discrimination, but that does not change peoples' attitudes.
At the risk of being seen as proselytising, on a personal note as a Christian, I believe the main reason why we should not favour any particular race over another is that Christians believe that God created all people (black, white, gay, straight, fat, thin, male, female etc) in his own image, and in that image all are equal and should have equal status and opportunity. Paul stated this 2000 years ago in that 'in God there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female'.
We can all sit back and declare ourselves as 'non-racist' and 'tut-tut- when we hear of something on the TV or radio, but do little about it. As an example of this, when there were floods in New Orleans USA a few years ago, the whole world knew of the devastation that was caused, and the whole world helped with aid and equipment. However, in the recent floods in Pakistan, which caused devastation on a far greater scale than the Tsunami, the Haiti earthquake and new Orleand all put together, the only country to lead the world (and to shame the world) into its giving sufficient aid was the UK, probably because it is a multicultural country, where many races live in absolute harmony. The problem with the Pakistani floods is that they are far away, and affect Asians, not nice, white, middle class people, so that's OK then; we don't need to act. And that attitude is as much racist and has no part in a humanitarian society, as any racial genocide or hatred.
What year was racism strongest in America?
general racism has always been strong in america; until African Americans gained complete equal rights which was 1964 the passing of the poll tax amendment that got rid of radical southerns attempts to prevent African Americans from voting with a poll tax
What was the original purpose of the KKK?
as we see in antilbellium history the original purspose of the KKK was to oppress blacks and maintain white supremcy but suck them wiggers.
What can you say to be racist?
when one person attacks another person by calling a name or nasty referral to his skin colour or ethical culture and does this with malicious intent then this individual is considered a racist and should be avoided at all costs.
What has happened to racism in America?
It began dying out over a long period of time. Ever since the Civil War, racism was on a downward trend. After Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream" speech, people began seeing African Americans as more equal to themselves.
What are some racist terms for hindu people?
The ones i know are spear chucker, redskin, and squaw (squaw is for females) but i hope u dont use these cause im half native american. :(
SQUAW just means a native woman so they are all squaws and it is not a racist term
Racism has existed throughout history, it stems from the traditional ideas of racial supremacy held by most cultures, although in the modern world it exists without malice (think of patronism). These can manifest in such things as religion (The Chosen people) or social structure (Such as Slavery)
Athropologically, racism is a descendant from the evolutionary instinct that many animal species have which causes individuals to sort all creatures of their species into Us and Other. This is a very successful survival technique for social groups, allowing the easy distinction between the local (and thus likely friendly) population which the individual associated with, and remote (and thus likely hostile) groups which would likely be in contest for resources.
Racism is thus an extreme viewpoint which has progressed from clannism, through tribalism. The rise of what we could call Modern Racism coincides with the advent of the modern Nation-State, as the nation-state was originally defined heavily in terms of similar racial and social characteristics.
Why people are so racist these days?
I think racism was more common back in the 20th century. I don't think America..if that's what your talking about is as racist as they were.. But there are still racist people today. If that makes any sense..
It depends. It is not racist when it is used correctly to refer to a young male. However, it can be used in a racist manner when someone of one race (usually White) calls an adult of another race (usually Black) that. In that context, it is a word of subservience, which basically means that you are saying you own the other person like a slave or that they are beneath you.
How did racism end in America?
Martin Luther king did but I'm sorry there will always be racism its sad and true
Someone who is racist, whether it be towards their own race or any other is a racist or has a prejudice towards their own race.
In Psychology, this kind of racism is called Internalized Racism.
What was the Jewish segregation?
Places that either didn't allow Jews or places that Jews had to be in separate places.
The main targets of the KKK, or Ku Klux Klan, were people that did not believe what they beleived, which was white supremacy. For example, this didn't really happen, it is just an example, the KKK just killed 5 blacks, an Asian, and 2 white senators. They killed the blacks and asians because they were different, and the senators were trying to get two bills passed; one bill making black people equal, and the other because he was trying to get local enforcement to get rid of the local KKK.
What groups experience racism?
Well, every group can experience racism, doesn't matter what you are.
I hope this helped
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Ask us anythingAn example of institutional racism is when banks?
use race as the basis for determining mortgage interest rates.
How should we treat the people whose from different cultures?
you should treat people the same way you want to be treated
How do you write a speech on racism?
Through common human nature, we have isolated ourselves from the meaning of common dignity. People are always looking for excuses, ways of making themselves look and feel more important. They have created classes and look down on people that are not like them. For example, for many years in the past, Europeans were used to one common race, and when they stumbled upon the Native Americans, they simply would not accept the fact that they were different and treated them inferior. Humans are not used to social change and take advantage of opportunities, such as a weakness in society. When one sick human being looks down upon another, other weak-willed people follow along as a result of peer pressure, not able to make their own decisions.
Why should people be treated differently due to the colour of their skin?
History shows that for various reasons this world has been dominated by the 'White Man'. Human nature also shows that the strong treat the weak unfairly. Minorities suffer discrimination in all walks of life, not that that makes it right, it does not. George Orwell in Animal Farm says that all men are created equal, but some are created more equal than others. It is obvious that as time progresses the place in the world of people of different ethnic makeups is changing. I'm not sure that the colour of a mans skin will one day become no more noticable than the colour of his shoes, but there is progress, slow but sure, it is progress. There is progress, slow but sure, it is progress.
But O! So slowly, the original distinction amongst the civilized, is established in the 3rd Book of Moses
Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them fora possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour. [LEVITCUS 25:45-46.] they shall be your bondmen for ever: "but" over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigor.
To day this practice of division, is maintained throughout the total of the ci-vil-ized World! Thanks to the divine rite, stemming from The Holy Roman Empire!
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People are treated poorly based on whatever convenient excuse the abuser can find. People are treated poorly because other people feel poorly about themselves, they feel threatened by a cold and uncaring universe and they are frightened. JR in the first answer, who has always been honest and open in his cynicism, ends that answer with an offer of hope and calls this hope progress. JR is correct and there is progress, there are vast amounts of people who recognize that we are all equal under the eyes of God and under the eyes of the law. Recognizing it is not nearly enough, thus the cynicism we find in JR. We must, as the next poster vaguely implies, (or perhaps this poster inferred.), fix our broken souls. We must repair our relationship with the universe and we must recognize that there are universal laws that apply to everyone including God. If they are laws, then they are Universal. The divine right doctrine is not a law it is an illegal usurpation of power and through fraud. The divine right doctrine is predicated on the canard that God chose the King and everyone residing in "his" realm is subject to the King who has been ordained by God. This is a false doctrine, and there are natural rights doctrines, treatise and essays that soundly refute this, and the Declaration of Independence firmly rejects Divine Right doctrine. That the second poster points out this doctrine goes back to Roman Law only shows there weren't just people relying upon the God of Abraham and Moses to assert divine right to rule, there were other charlatans, Roman charlatans relying upon the various gods of their day to assert divine right to rule. The only way people can fall victim to such false notions as Divine Right doctrine is that they have forgotten who they really are, (and perhaps this is what Breez is trying to say, not really sure.) and have forgotten they are subject only to God (and if you don't believe in God you are still subject to...), and the Laws of the Universe. The Laws of the Universe do not recognize positive laws as valid courses of action. While some man made laws may be valid and just, the Universe does not recognize this validity and operates on basic principles that apply to all. It is rare to find a positive law that can operate on this basic principle. Positive laws are man made laws and man is, unlike God, inherently fallible. Man will err and because man will err any laws he creates are subject to doubt. What is the standard to know what is law and what is not law? If the law applies to all of us, then it is law. Gravity, the speed of sound, the speed of light, these are laws that apply to all. Murder, theft, assault and battery, fraud, obstruction of justice, abrogations and derogations of an individuals rights, these are all universal laws that have been broken. Divine Right was a doctrine that willfully broke with the laws of the universe so that certain people might treat others poorly. The only way this doctrine gained any influence is because the people allowed it. The people chose to suffer the indignities, regardless of the color of their skin, people such as serfs, and slaves or "bondmen". To clarify, I do not believe it is Breez's intention to advocate slavery through scriptural quotations, I believe Breez is condemning civilization and blaming this construct for the reason people treat people badly.
Whether that interpretation is true or not is not relevant as blame is irrelevant. We are, far too many of us, very powerful beings with broken souls. We have suffered too many indignities rather than stand tall and assert our right to be who it is we are intended to be, we instead become the perpetrators of suffering showing too little regard for the rights of others, we keep going around and around in circles, more like spirals, spiraling further down, down, down, the dark stairwell on a slippery slope to destruction and despair when we suffer needlessly and cause needless suffering to others. Civilization did not make us evil and we are not evil, we are human and we err. Because we err it is crucial we forgive and forgiveness is divine but even more important than forgiveness we must show each other compassion. There is no need to forgive someone for the color of their skin, there is a need to show compassion to those people who have suffered indignities because of the color of their skin. We must show our brothers and sisters compassion as they struggle to rise up out of the Darwinian genetic cesspool that defines our biology and recognize the consciousness we have, that all of us possess, that can not be found in any biological model or construct, that consciousness that continually reminds us that we are more, far more than our physical bodies. This is a process that takes time, this is a process that has been impeded, not by civilization but by people who have promulgated bad ideas in order to gain unlawfully all that they could have gained lawfully but were too frightened, hurt and confused to see the error in their actions and in their thoughts.
Why are people treated poorly because of the color of their skin? For the same reason they are treated badly because of the station of their wealth, or because of the history of their family, or because the religion they adhere to, people are treated badly, because the abusers have lost their way, and if the abused continue to allow the abuse then they have lost their way as well. If it is true that we are more than our physical bodies, and I challenge anyone to show me physical evidence of consciousness, then what good is the body we inhabit if it is enslaved by others because we so cherished that body so reviled by others we acquiesced to their unlawful usurpations and long train of abuses, just to keep a body alive rather than risk the body to defend our soul. This is what is wrong with us, this is why we hate, and this is why we fear our brothers and sisters as they fear us, because we have favored the flesh over the soul and in doing so we plunder and abuse and break the basic laws of the Universe. But there is progress, we just might make it yet. How Anger Came to I VER-I-U, Land Of My Ancestors
It is written: If You Do Not Learn From History! You are Bound To Have It Repeat On You! This relates how names, effect conditions. in The Petrified Cosmic Image(illusion). The point of The Tale, is about effect of NAMES. I VER-I-U, to day known as Ire-land, and its history, is being used as an historic example of it's Truyh!
I VER-I-U: I am VER (Ancient name for green, as inver-dent) I make yoU green, and to this day; Green, especially Emerald Green is associated with This Land, The Emerald Isle.
I the year 1155, Pope Adrien (only English Pope) of The Church of Rome, gave a bull (Papal document granting divine-rite of land), to the crown of England, This established I VER-I-U as a part of The Holey Sea, to pay Tithe & Offerings to Rome, and taxes to the Crown of England.
The English, taking advantage of this lucrative opportunity, sent an army, and stole the land by force. A catholic priest, named Patric, tagged the island Ire-land: ire: anger. The Angry-land. And this name caused a name for temper, The Irish Temper, The land is yet associated with Green, it is now also associated, and filled with ANGER!
Later, the land was divided; Northern & Southern Ire-land. And that was the beginning of what is now known as "The Irish Trouble". Anger perpetrated in Belfast (bel:beauty. Fast abstinence) was, as its name tels, doubled in Dublin. Divide! The Name; Double The Anger. For it is written, Every kingdom divided against itself, is bought to desolation. [MATTHEW 12:25.]
Between the two world wars, When De Valera (de:To remove, val: Value.Era: ire, anger.) an American Born Irishman, became president of the subservient government of Southern Ire-land, His first act upon taking office: change the name to "The Irish Free State".
The anger started to move out, before WW2 they had received emancipation from the British Government, and the land started to Really Heal. The name was again changed to E-ira (e, out of, ire, anger)
Today, Eira, has the stablest economy in ci-vil-ization, Their reality is completely reversed. Today Descendants of those that departed in the troubled times; are returning to a prospering land; Where once Irish were hired as laborers in England, now English go to E`ira as laborers, to fix, and maintain Eira's streets.
Northan Ire-land on the other hand, still having the same name, yet has the same problems with ANGER!!!!!
300 Years later Pope Alexander VI gave divine-rite of the new world (now North & South America.) to the kings of Spain & Portugal
849 Gregorian years of alien occupation & ANGER for I-VER-I-U! 500 Gregorian years of illegal alien occupation for the indigenous peoples, Columbus Named Indians.
All of this! Courtesy! Of The Church of Rome.
Name something, that! Will be its reality; Change its name, and the reality! Will change.
I! As one of the damaged ones, intend, if it is the Great Spirit's will, that all whom have been victomized; by the divine-rite of Rome! know about the injustice that has been inflicted upon them by divine-rite.
divine-rite: Carnal money making setup, instigated by holy leaders, that has raped The Planet!
Is calling someone black racism?
It's not racist, you couldn't get taken to court for it as it would just be seen as stating the obvious or bullying in some cases. Its just like calling a ginger person ginger or a tanned person orange. Some coloured people don't like the term 'black' the prefer African american or Jamaican etc.. Its only racist if you say you don't think that them being black is okay.
How has racism changed since the 1960's?
Negative attitudes by many people toward other ethnicities, in many places, is still prevalent. Nor is it likely that it will ever be eradicated.
It is less acceptable, in several societies, to be openly racist nowadays. It is a prerequisite to be so in others.
The intolerance people have for others is, in part, a genetic survival trait. We are still savages deep down.
Such instincts are no longer as necessary as they were and can be fought by individuals intelligent enough to realise this. Unfortunately not all of us have the wit to appreciate it.
Prejudice, of any kind, displays that creatures ignorance and fear.
Hopefully mankind will, one day, battle the real hazards to survival. Of which there are many and obvious to anyone able to look beyond petty and superficial differences.
