Racism as a Common Problem in the 21st Century

Racism as a Common Problem in the 21st Century

Racism has been a problem since the very first day that two men of

different Races met. Racism is defined as the belief in the

superiority of one Race over all others. Often racism is a belief that

one type of person has got better physical attributes, or is more

intelligent. This belief can have an enormous affect over the way that

one group of people treats another. In retrospect all racism entails

is the idea that because of someone's skin colour or religion they are

an in-superior race.

Racism is a blatant form of prejudice. People who are prejudice are

people who have strong feelings against certain types of people before

they have even met them. Prejudice means 'pre-judgement' 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 there

actions throughout history or their rivalling 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.

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

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

to Britain and America. Although Slave trading was mostly common in

America British people were just as responsible. The African slaves

were often prisoners in their village and tribe leaders would trade

them for material goods, such as pot...

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...acism is not just a problem for coloured people it's a

problem for everybody. If people don't change their opinions and

racism continue to thrive, then what sort of a place will our children

be brought up in? A place where there is war on every street because

of something as unimportant as skin colour? I don't want a future of

violence and hatred I want a future 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. Just like it was in the

centuries before it. 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.