Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Racism
- Xenophobia: the fear of people who are different
- Deep fear can express itself in racially motivated violence
- Peer Pressure
- Lack of self love, feeling of unworthiness and desire to feel superior
- Ignorance of other cultures, religions, and values.
- Isolationist and protectionist foreign policies.
- Laws and government policies aimed at preventing immigration
of people of different cultures and religions.
- Racism is used by governments to excuse systematic oppression and human rights
abuses.
- Low self-esteem
- Fear of sharing power with other groups of people
- Historic patterns of prejudice, discrimination, and racism. Colonialism,
historic hostilities, and the slave trade contribute to modern racism.
- Ignorance
- Being uneducated, unaware, or uninformed
- Once a person grows up around racism, they become adapted to the lifestyle. They believe their
ideas are right because they've never been corrected, and this is what they're used to.