2006-07-02 15:56:55 · 14 answers · asked by akja20002000 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Because people have been taught to believe that there are differences.
Focusing on the differences they are angered by someone who has a selfish motive for having the races upset at each other.
You may be shocked to know that when the slaves came to America they were sent as workers who, within 7 years, would buy back thier own freedom. You may be surprized to find out that most of the "slaves" were already freed before the war.
You may be shocked to find that the entire campaign against blacks was completely devised buch of bullshit entirely motivated by a very small number of individuals.
There is a great deal more to this and many other situations having to do with racism.
My point is only that there is someone who has it in their interest to fuel the fire of hatred.
The good news in all of this is that the VAST majority of people are good hearted and not racist. When it is being pushed, it is being pushed by someONE. If you find out how or where they got their cruel ideas you will find out that it comes from someONE and that someone is doing it for their own ends.
Because so many people are good, its easier to focus on the rightness and let the nutcakes fall where they may. Who cares what they think . Racism is completely contrived and designed to keep people apart when they want to be together.
2006-07-02 16:07:59 · answer #1 · answered by theresa e 1 · 4⤊ 5⤋
Our social adaptations, the same ones that made us more successful than the Neanderthal, makes us view the world as Us and Them. In the past, when two very different tribes met, it was common to have a youngster from each tribe marry each other to cement the alliance between them and make them family to each other. We have less societal cohesion now. Extended families dont generally live together anymore and so there is less variety in what we consider Us anymore. This makes people have a more narrow view of Them. The physical characteristics stick out in greater contrast. Skin color, hair type and style, height, weight, facial features, and scent. Just 150 years ago Irish, Polish, and German immigrants to America were victims of racism even though they are white. Partly because they were from a foreign culture but mostly because they were immigrants.
2006-07-02 16:06:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because some people want to think that they are superior than others and since they teach their children the same way, racism goes on and on. Some poeple also tend to judge people or blame people, which raises an anger against them. Racism just shows the level of the lack of education a person has, since all of us, religiously and scientifically, come from the same family. Like the "All out of Africa" theory that all the races came form the same family. It follows that, if someone is racist, that person is not worth thinking baout at all if s/he acts against you.
2006-07-02 16:04:31 · answer #3 · answered by principessa=o) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It stems from Tribalism, which is an inherent form of Xenophobia due to the fact that when different tribes met, they usually went to war. These feelings have carried over throughout time, and will do so until we finally decide that we really are one race, and that everyone is the same and equal. Tyranny must be abolished, including religious tyranny that pits one belief against another.
2006-07-02 16:01:15 · answer #4 · answered by Crowfeather 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It pays the bills of the top dog who incites it. The head of the clan is paaaiiiiiiiid. Big mansion on a hill with all kinds of satellite dishes around him as well as security. I darn near wanna be him. I just don't look good wearing dunce caps.
2006-07-02 16:00:41 · answer #5 · answered by Yahoo answer dude 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think its because we are so similar thaat anyone thats a little different has to be "weird" or "odd" thus creating the theory of perfection. i think that humans look the same. similarities are only skin deep.
2006-07-02 16:02:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
gangs mate everyone wants to be in a gang, whether its the bloods, crips, conservatives, liberals, white or black gang we feel the need to conform, and our gang needs to be better than their gang so we make up nasty rumours about their gang, if people who live on the other side of the street cant get on because of differences then how are we gonna get on with peple with a different skin colour? its like the other guy said about tribes, we all need to be in a gang
2006-07-02 16:23:09 · answer #7 · answered by danny boy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because people refuse to see that there's beauty in differences......
And I guess it's because we always have this pre-conceive notion that it's a lot easier to deal with people belonging to the same race and beliefs as ours than try to understand and deal with people from different ethnicity and beliefs.....
2006-07-02 16:17:09 · answer #8 · answered by cyntz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its because of those many similarities that we are so able to pick up on the few differences.
Two identical rocks but one has a white dot on it.. easy to notice.
2006-07-02 15:59:10 · answer #9 · answered by TiFFeRz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people think that they can come out and say somthing about somebodys race to make there's look better than the other ones that are out there.
2006-07-02 16:02:57 · answer #10 · answered by MUHAMMAD ALI 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋