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What is racism? Racism is defined as the actions, practices or beliefs, or social or political systems that consider different races to be ranked inherently superior or inferior to each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities may also hold that members of different races should be treated differently. Using the Ecological Systems Theory presented from class discussion we can breakdown a plausible explanation. The first measure to looking into is the microsystem. Within this first system, regardless of the gender, influences come from an individual’s surrounding areas whether it comes from one’s family, friends, school, and neighborhood, these are just a handful of possible options that holds significance in influencing and shaping a developing mind. Examples to think of to help paint a clearer picture include a family or neighborhood in poverty, single-parent households, low parental education, peer behavior, hostile work environment and inadequate functioning school systems.
Looking into the second system of the Ecological Systems Theory, the mesosystem, which bear comparisons with the interactions amongst the microsystems in one’s life. To enlighten in better detail, the comparison amongst a youth’s family and their neighborhood may be a good example. Let’s say a young and naïve individual grew up with a family that is racist by nature and the neighborhood they live in itself is racist, say towards any outsiders of non-Caucasian heritage. This individual, thanks to their surroundings, is almost more than certainly doomed to follow in the footsteps of their parents and neighborhood, believing in this ludicrous “conventional image” that they were raised upon. One’s family would have their reas...

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...ng on at the same time. As the child goes around one curve on the spiral staircase he or she is impacted by a belief or value in his environment. As they then round the next curve of the spiral he or she is now viewing the new experience through their beliefs and values that have thus far been developed. So the experiences he or she has had in the past continue to influence them by the way that they bring about them to comprehend, decipher, or understand new and future occurrences. To conclude the Ecological Systems Theory, the chronosystem, which may influence an individual’s development in numerous ways contains of environmental experiences and metamorphosis in life throughout a person’s lifetime. Examples of the chronosystem maybe the divorce or separation of parents, moving to a new city, state, or country, or growing up during harsh aspects of time like war.

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