Racism as a Problem Today

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Racism as a Problem Today

Racism is a huge problem. The definition of racism is the belief in

the superiority of one Race over all others. A lot of the time racism

is a belief that one type of person has got better physical

attributes, or is smarter. All racism includes the idea that because

of someone's skin colour or religion they are members of a superior or

inferior race. This belief can have an enormous effect over the way

that one group of people treats one another.

Racism is an obvious form of prejudice. A lot of people are of the

opinion that if they made a racist joke but it was funny or they

didn't mean it in that way then it is justifiable. People who are

prejudiced are people who have strong feelings against certain types

of people before they have even met them. Prejudice means

'pre-judgement' (first impressions) and society proves that people

will judge somebody sooner than they would get to know them.

Regularly individual people are very friendly, but because of their

actions throughout history or their rival religious beliefs people

often see them as being a possible threat and treat every person of

that race as if they were the same. This is called stereotyping.

Stereotyping is when all people of a certain type are thought to share

the same characteristics. Often stereotypes are used as forms of

racial abuse and horrible jokes. For example:

"Why did the Romans build straight roads? So the Paki's couldn't build

corner shops".

The first black people to be brought to Britain were slaves. The

so-called 'Slave race' were taken from their home countries and taken

to Britain and America. Although Slave trad...

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racism continue to thrive, then what sort of a place will we create? A

place where there is war on every street because of something as

unimportant as skin colour? I hope not. A future of violence and

hatred isn't what I have in mind. I see a future for future

generations where everybody's at peace with each other and are looking

at the things that are actually important in life.

Racism is a problem in the 21st Century. I could let dozens of racist

names or sayings that I've heard over the year's roll of my tongue and

I am only 15. There is hope for the future however. Racism is

something that can just stop, it doesn't take a strong-willed person

just not to call out and make racist remarks. Racism is not just

something on the Television. Racism is very real and it's around us

all the time.

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