I thought we are all human beings.
- We all feel the same pain when we are hurt.
2006-08-14 22:06:04 · 22 answers · asked by willy81inc 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Because they are insensitive to other peoples suffering.
We all feel pain the same way.
2006-08-14 22:10:06 · answer #1 · answered by nnjamerson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sadly it is usually passed down by many from generation to generation, I loathe racism in ANY form. Each of us is a child of God, we are born, live and die the same way, we bleed the same color, and we are nothing but human beings put upon this earth to love and care for one another. One's color, religion, race or creed should NEVER matter, but the person who is INSIDE. Nature has made me legally blind almost since birth and God made up for this by making me color, creed and religion blind as well. It isn't an easy road to exact change, but if enough people care enough it CAN be done. Always fight the good fight, no matter how unpopular it may be.
2006-08-14 22:22:41 · answer #2 · answered by Daydream Believer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fear and ignorance. A crowd mentality. Some are indoctrinated as kids.
I know a lot of different ethnic groups. If you get to really know people they are a lot like you and I. a few radical or fundamentalist idiots can ruin it for the rest.
Where do you get your information from the news and the press? Sensationalism sells not blacks and whites or Muslims, Jews & Christians getting along. Stories tend to get unbalanced and through our own fears we get a witch hunt mentality.
On a positive note i knew some people that grew up in racist families but as they got older and educated they slowly realized they have been wrong all these years.
2006-08-14 22:25:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that racism comes from several factors, mostly:
- ignorance (not knowing the "other", being fed with prejudices about them in the educational system, family and media)
- fear - people are afraid now of terror, and they sadly reflect that on all of the "Arabs" or "Muslims" without stopping to think; or, they are afraid of having to lose their job and reflect that on all those "Foreigners" and "Immigrants" that are there to "steal their jobs".
The racist is not a strong, confident, person - it is a person in constant fear of the "unknown" (that is the "foreign") and a person who is ignorant. Naturally, this is abused by racist policians in order to get themselves votes.
Here is one example, that we also saw in Yahoo! Answer, but also on "real life": white supremacy racists were supporting the Hizbollah in the latest conflict with Israel. You know, the kind of the "enemy of my enemy is my friend". Hey, but doesn't it mean that the Nazis and the Arabs cooperate although each side would like (after they're done with the Jews, of course) anihilate each other? Just shows you the type of politicians leading these people.
2006-08-14 22:17:50 · answer #4 · answered by berliner 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Becasue they aren't well traveled or educated enough.. They are narrow minded and don't have the sense to think of other ways to look at things. Or/and they might only think of themselves and only have an opinion made by not seeing the WHOLE picture. How stupid can one be to judge a race by a couple peoples wrong doings. We don't read about our own kind in the paper and say wow, we are all jerks becasue this guys and/or this girl did this and this. It is just stupidity.
2006-08-14 22:17:47 · answer #5 · answered by Jess 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fear, prejudice, lack of education, the fact they won't take the blinkers off to see the whole picture, hate breeds hate, if people found just one small place in their hearts to feel the love and understanding we might all be able to live in a better society.
2006-08-14 22:40:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a perfect world yes. In the real world people are afraid of what they don't know or don't want to know. That's where racism comes from.
2006-08-14 22:23:05 · answer #7 · answered by anonfuture 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wise people feel safer when everyone grows stronger. But, feeble-minded people feel safer when everyone grows weaker than they are. . . even if that means creating illusionary differences among man to compete over, to war over, so that the feeble-minded can bring everyone down so that they can conquer and dominate us. Racists are feeble-minded and spiritually handicapped. They are the monkey in us . . . the brute, the beast, the primitive, the vulgar, the throwback, our truly shameful, our madness, our spiritual cripples, our species' dregs.
2006-08-14 22:48:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its just human nature which is sad.though man has developed over the centurys some things like racism don,t change
2006-08-14 22:23:10 · answer #9 · answered by martin r 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only racists support racism. We all bleed red, regardless of our our race and skin colour.
2006-08-14 22:13:12 · answer #10 · answered by dar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋