What is the best way to combat racism?

Answer 1

I would bite them.

Answer 2

The best way to combat racism is to measure merit based upon a standard. We need standardized tests for elementary school , middle school and high school. Everyone needs to be judged by the same criteria. If you can cut the mustard then there is no need for racism. Its when preferential treatment is afforded and the struggle is unequal among different racial groups that resentment is bred.

I think people in this country are too quick to pull out the "racial" card. The worse thing to happen to American culture was political correctness because it has reduced the level of tolerance across racial segments. Get a thick skin and focus on whats important and ignore the jerks that need to feel superior just because they belong to a particular skin color.

Answer 3

It's harder to change prejudice when a person is older and has been influenced by society. I think that racism doesn't exist but it's society that makes us think one group is superior to the other. If kids could play and learn with kids from other ethnicities, they could learn that people are the same despite their color. I think adults are less likely to go out of their way to get to know a person outside their race, so their prejudiced perceptions continue. I mean if you have been influenced by society all your life with racism, it's very hard to change, especially when you don't live in a diverse place. If it's possible everyone should go on an exchange program to get to know people of a different culture. That isn't realistic, but it's possible to end the racist humor in the media. People can become politically active and vote against racist policies. It starts with parents not influencing their children into thinking that one group is better than the other. Interaction, voluntary or involuntary, between people of different races is the first step to reverse preconceptions. I believe in affirmative action because a minority person can give back to his or her community, and it would mean much more than if a white person from a wealthy community because there's less change. I can be wrong but I think there are feasible solutions to combat racism.

Answer 4

I think the best way to combat racism would be not to watch so much television that promotes hatred between us. To get out and talk to people instead. People, bad people...all governments say bad things about the 'enemy' and don't let us see them sympathetically. I think other people inside our own countries try to rile us up against one another all the time to, for a political agenda reason.

Mostly keep talking. Don't stand to the side lines when members of your own family, friends, or even strangers speak out 'randomly' about other nationalities in a derogatory fashion. Choose your words carefully but do not let people walk over them. And keep asking questions, like this.

Answer 5

In the book "The Lathe of Heaven" (find a synopsis here: http://www.galaxyezine.com/stories/reviews/snop003.html)
Ursula LeGuin did it by turning everyone gray.

However, this won't work in the real world. People fear other people that are different from them. Blacks were once described as demons, but they are just people, like you and me. Until white people got to know black people and stop fearing them, we didn’t get along (unfortunately that is a continuing struggle and some people are still having to fight it). Part of racism is when people come up with other names for the various races; g__ks, ***__s, slant-eyed, whops, spooks, crackers etc. (All racial slurs). They use these names to transform the group into something less than human. Which makes it easier to hate them. Then we get people saying: “These people are _____ (pick your own racial slur) they aren’t like us, they are too different; so we don’t have to be kind to them, we can even do mean things to them.”

The best way to handle racism is to have people understand each other. But, you can’t force this on them. Some people don’t want to understand other people; they are locked in a cycle of hate (like Muslim extremists). I grew up in the Deep South in the 1960s so as a white child I feared blacks. When I was in high school (a 4A school) there were only 4 blacks in the entire school. This was the 1970s so segregation was illegal, but still practiced in some areas (as it is today). My High School wasn’t segregated, the neighborhoods around the school were. When I joined the Army I had a big wake up call. There are a lot of blacks, and other minorities, in the Army. Dealing with black people I learned that some were good, some where bad, some could be my friends, and some were higher rank, and my bosses. In another words they were humans. This exposure pulled me out of my racist attitudes. I wasn’t really racist because I hated black people; I was racist, because the environment I grew up in was. I saw so few blacks, I never interacted with them; I didn’t really see them as human. I don’t mean biologically, I didn’t think they were dogs or anything. I just didn’t know blacks as people, until I started meeting them. So another way to stop racism is to get the people to interact with each other. One of the most racist areas of the world is the Middle East. Nations have said that they will drive Israel into the sea (Hamas is the latest group to say this, once Egypt agreed, but they got smarter and made peace). The Palestinians hates the Israelis the most, yet when a camp was set up with children from both groups, friendships replaced hatred and racism. Exposure, and an open mind allowed this.

Answer 6

My preference for combatting racism is to
marginalize racism through education of the young,
mockery of racists and racism,
and decreasing the financial power of racist groups by making sure not to give money to any corporation or organization that sponsors racism.

Answer 7

Racism is a misnomer. All humans are of the same race. However, just as in nature, there will always be disparity among human ethnics, economics and regions. Universal equality is an unattainable philosophical concept.

Answer 8

There is no such thing as rascism, we only make it that way. Each person is the same essentially, each with a working mind and body. Genetically we are changed, as our climates vary. African-american descent is a darker skin color because of generations of dark skinned descendants living in the deserts of africa. Mexicans lived in deserts. Caucasians lived in forests. The people of the Orient lived in forests and deserts. Each "race" is attributed a color and set of misconceptions. Truly, it is just a genetic variance and therefor no difference.

The best way to eliminate the "problem" is to teach some basic evolutionary genetics at a young age. place young children in a "mixed" setting while in preschool to start their minds fresh and young. Make friends with people of other ehtnicities at work so that when your children grow up they see that you too are friends with them and so there is nothing wrong with them. Don't use generals like "stupid white people" or "damn mexicans".

Although there is no clear cut way to eliminate rascism the best we can do is try to enforce ethnic blending.

Answer 9

To start off you need to get people to accept other races as human, like them. To show them it's childish and fundamentaly stupid. My favourite way of getting people to accept things is to force them to. That is, people need to be shown thingfs. Not told them. It's not enough to tell the racists of the world that (for instance) Black people are people too. You have to show them. Otherwise they won't listen. Everytime a racist white man hears about a black guy in his field of work who's accomplished more meaningfull things he goes home angry. Eventually he'll ask himself why. And the only answer he'll have is "Because he's black". Anyone with half a brain would then question their racist beliefs.

Answer 10

The best way would be to not to do what all the Government of India has done with teh country for the last 50 years.

Answer 11

I guess, the best way to prevent racism is to get people of different religions, countries, skin colors etc. together.

It's much harder to have some sort of prejudice against a group of people if you got to know one of them.