What is the definition of racism?

Question

Educated, so please don't use this space to make yourself feel better; please articulate. What constitutes racist behavior? Are you racist/recovering racist? Is bigotry racism? Thanks for all responses.

Answer 1

The word racism appeared in 1930. Racism refers to various belief systems maintaining that the essential value of an individual person can be determined according to a perceived or ascribed racial category and that social discrimination by race is therefore justifiable. Here's a site about racism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

I believe people don't need to use this space to make themselves feel better, because most of the time they don't see any reason to feel better since they are always "right." Or prove they are "right." Too bad that people are so busy telling the world what they believe when I realize lip service is cheap and actions speak louder than words. I see racism every day and I abhor it. I've been the object of some people's pitiful excuses to make themselves feel better by being prejudiced to my height and my being a white single woman. I equate prejudice to racism, as it equals out. There's all kinds of both. I would think that by 2006 prejudice would just go away, but I live in Oklahoma and it's alive and well. We have a huge percentage of people who are anti education and wouldn't even have their kids in school if it weren't required. Education is one way to overcome racism and prejudice. But it's certainly a slow process. I could type forever on this topic but I must stop.

Answer 2

the definition of racism would include a reference to discrimination and technically discrimination can only be carried out by a person or group who form a part of a majority upon a person or group who form part of a minority.....

the majority is not necessarily a numerical majority but more a power majority. If the balance of power lies with white people in a country that has a numerical majority of non-whites then the white can discriminate against the non-whites... but the non-whites having an imbalance of power can not discirminate against whites....

Ya know I hate the word white when referring to people as much as I hat the word black...

I am yet to meet a white a person or a black person....

we seem to all be shades of other colours.. but black and white are not technically colours they are tints or tones....

Answer 3

The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
Discrimination or prejudice based on race.

Are you racist against racists?

Answer 4

Racism is the ideology that people are divided into separate and unique organic and organic entities referred to as "races". till the late 18th or early nineteenth century the theory of race had little to do with actual features and replaced into typically in accordance with the position someone replaced into from. hence in this era you've references to the Irish Race, the German Race, the Italian Race and so on. in the course of the late 18th and early nineteenth century the theory of race became extra depending of actual features, alongside with pores and skin coloration and facial caricaturists. in spite of the defining parameters the ideology includes the perception that individuals of a race share a set of function characteristics, skills, or features, that characteristics of personality, mind, morality, and different cultural behavioral features are inherited, and that this inheritance signifies that races must be ranked as innately better or not so good as others.

Answer 5

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Racism refers to various belief systems maintaining that the essential value of an individual person can be determined according to a perceived or ascribed racial category and that social discrimination by race is therefore justifiable.

The word "racism" itself appeared in the 1930s, both in the English language and in French. Such racial prejudice usually includes the belief that people differ in aptitudes and abilities (such as intelligence, physical prowess, or virtue) according to race. Most individuals who use the concept of racial categories believe that different races can be placed on a ranked, hierarchical scale. By definition one who practices racism is known as a racist.

W.E.B. DuBois argued that racialism is the belief that differences between the races exist, be they biological, social, psychological, or in the realm of the soul. He then went on to argue that racism is using this belief to push forward the argument that one's particular race is superior to the others.

Racism can more narrowly refer to a system of oppression, such as institutional racism that is based on ideas that one race is superior to other races. Organizations and institutions that practice racism discriminate against and marginalize a class of people who share a common racial designation. The term "racism" is usually applied to the dominant group in a society, because it is that group which has the means to oppress others, but readily applies to any individual or group(s), regardless of social status or dominance.

Answer 6

Main Entry: rac·ism
Pronunciation: 'rA-"si-z&m also -"shi-
Function: noun
1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
2 : racial prejudice or discrimination
- rac·ist /-sist also -shist/ noun or adjective

Answer 7

The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
Discrimination or prejudice based on race.

www.dictionary.com

Answer 8

Which is the more intellegent race? The Japanese or the Somalians?

Would you rather live in a White neighborhood or a Black one?

Who is more peacful, the Thais or the Iranians.

"What does skin color have to do with it?" is the dumbest question ever asked.

Answer 9

i suggest you consult your local center for the healing of racism for all the info you need,

Answer 10

Wouldnt it be easier to look it up in a dictionary?