What's the root cause of racism?

Answer 1

ignorance and stupidity

Answer 2

The root cause is "Different Races". And as long as there are people on this planet, there's going to be racism. Why can't folks understand that the misguided notion of the races being equal is really a recent phenomenon, and not actually enlightenment, but insanity? Since the dawn of man, all have believed instinctively in the separation of the races. Not until the world became so "Jew-Dazed" in the 1940's, and people became like so many self-absorbed feminists, did the Marxist fallacy of equal races take hold.

Answer 3

The root cause of racism is fear of the unknown culture combined with ignorance.If people would truly embrace their religions and spread the word of love, which is embedded in all big religions and all other different believes, there would be no racism and so much hatred and war between people and countries.

Answer 4

Racism is the result of the combination of 2 causes:
1. the innate psychological desire to disrupt the fundamental logical truth that the worthiness of an entity in one respect does not determine it's worthiness in a different respect (which is the most immediate cause of racism), and
2. the innate psychological desire to disrupt the fundamental logical truth that all entities are separate and distinct, which causes the behavior of attributing racism to ignorance or culture or environment, thus deliberately perpetuating racism by refusing to attack it's genetic root.

Answer 5

The government Hyphanates to keep people all different
African- Americans Native -Americans caucasian-Americans Mexican- Americans.

Then you have single, married, head of household, divorced, single mother etc

Under $10.000, under20.000 , under 50,000 etc.

Onder 18, 19-25, 26-40, over 40, over 65

I could go on and on. Check the census and we could all be Americans.
The government need information to know how to control us. If there were no voters over 65 do you believe there would be social security? Keep the citizens apart and they cannot plot against you. In prisoner of war camps/ the first thing they do is separate the officers from the grunts. We are the grunts.

Answer 6

When a naive mind finds no other way to convince itself of it's greatness, it casts doubt on the value of others, hoping to appear better in comparison. That, it seems to me, is the main reason for "modern racism".

Of course, historically speaking, racism was often created in an attempt to justify cruelties against other races, which were performed for economic reasons. That could happen on both sides or perhaps the victims could, even without being aware of it, produce "counter-racism" in order to protect themselves, for CATEGORIZING as a function of human mind is greatly underestimated.

Answer 7

People feeling the need to be special in their own little groups.People get comfort hanging with ones that look and act like them . Color is not the only form of racism.

Answer 8

People are ignorant and scared about that which they don't understand. The best way to fight against racism and discrimination is by educating those would be racists. We need to teach our children about people of all races who have done incredible things for our world.

Answer 9

weaker people being bullied by stronger ones.
greed.
selfishness
handed down from the previous generation
but mostly it comes from something that happened a long time ago
And should be forgotten as I never did anything to anyone.
And the people who are here and alive today have never had anything done to them.
If a situation can happen in a black neighborhood, it can happen in a Japanese, or Indian, or Vietnamese, Or yes in a white neighborhood as well.

Time to stand on your own two feet people. And be judged for your contributions to this world or your trashing of this world.

Answer 10

The biblical story of Noah's son, who had "the mark" put on him. That's what started modern racism. It allowed people who felt they were "christian" to justify negative attitudes towards folks who were a different colour.

Answer 11

Ignorance!! Proven fact. If you really don't know anything about something or someone, you are more prone to be racist about them. If your parents are racist, you are more likely to be that way too as you know nothing about the people you are so against as you were taught it. So in a word, IGNORANCE!!