Are the main reasons for racism, the media and your parents?

Question

Do you blame the media for over hyping black/asiam/muslim crime, and hence ensuring lasting racism, in generations to come.
Do you blame your parents for making you racist?

What other sources of racism are their, and if not the media, how has it reached so many.

Im white to the guy whom assumed i was black

Answer 1

i dont think its parents. unless u have a racist parent and youve been brought up with racisim. but yes, i agree with the media answer.

Answer 2

Media plays an important role no doubt, as well as parenting. But another factor left out would be community. I grew up in a racist household, I watched the news, but I also grew up in a pre-dominantly black neighborhood and went to a pre-dominantly black school. Mom and Pops racial tendencies and the media's bombardment with ethnic crime didn't seep through. I took into realization that EVERY race has a badseed. Don't judge a whole people by a few bad apples. Though I do notice, that of my white friends...the ones that are racists are ones that never interacted with blacks much to begin with! Their parents sheltered them in the suburbs and naturally they fear black people because they are not accustomed to being around any black. That fear turns to hate. Least...seems to make sense to me.

Answer 3

Racism comes from the common mistake that color defines a race.

The media should not define your beliefs but a lot of people will never mingle in to situations that are unfamiliar or awkward. An individuals parents are probably the most influential factor. Unfortunately it seems like the racists will never die off.

Racism, color discrimination, is so prevalent because of the amount of information we take in by our eye sight. The first thing we see as a person approaches is usually their color. When we do this we apply our pre-concocted notion of that color of people. Once we form our initial impression it is hard to change.

Answer 4

Well to be perfectly honestly I think media has a ot to do with it. i know it makes me extremely angry when I see they have suspected an afican american of a crime and they splatter their name and face acroos the television, everytime. But if a white person is suspected you don't see their face most times until it goes to court. Also when interviewing blacks as witnessess they always pick the least intelligent person out there that also has the least amount of good hygiene. Why?

Movies play a big part too. Movies with blacks and hispanics always are about violence, prostitution, and drugs. At least the ones that are actually advertised. There are many movies that I have seen that involved black and hispanics that were great movies, but never advertised in mainstream society because they show educated and civilized people.

Advertisements, Look at the advertisements in Afican american neighborhoods. I always see liqour, clothes, music and cigarette ads posted as large as life, but in white suburban communities I usually see schools, real estate, and health club billboards.

Commercials: Why does the majority of Chicken commercials show blacks, hell, we're not the only people to eat chicken. Have the time I can't even stand chicken. And usually commecials with blacks have to have some sort of rap music or dancing in it. Just like the old minstrel shows. We can speak coorrect english, we don't always have to dnace our way to fame in your commercials.

I don't blame the parents as much as I society for going along with these practices. one parent can teach one child to be racist, but if they child grows up to own a TV station then it's the employees, government agencies, FCC, and union officials who need to mitigate the damages that the negativity that he has shows to the world.

Answer 5

Let's not blame the media for everything! I guess they do hype news about atrocities and violence, but then there are many of us who react differently as well.

Prejudices begin early in life - maybe parents, teachers and people you grew up with. You get to hear comments and form opinions based on these comments long before you have developed you own judgemental skills annd rationality. Youngsters have minds like sponges - they quickly absorb what they hear. I remember that as a youngster back in India, I was always told that I could choose to marry anyone I like 'except a muslim'! But thankfully I didn't grow up with that mindset - and I credit that somewhat to the secular mindset of some of the media people!

Racism may also arise out of certain incidents - a child whose close ones may have been hurt in a race related violence may be influence to form negative opinion, ofr example.

Children in some countries I hear are brain-washed early in life that everything American is bad - they have huge posters of their martyrs on the schoolwalls and kids are told to emulate them.

Answer 6

Neither. We all know by know what is right and what is wrong. We are all supposed to be equal yet people want special recognision for their race etc. Black awareness day etc. If we were equal why do we need to have a special day to make us aware. We go to school with multiple cultures, we work with multiple cultures, we ride on public transport together, We live next door to each other. We are equal but yet we are constantly reminded about the past. We cant change the past but we can the future and the present. No point in going on about it. The more we remember the more we seperate ourselves from each other.

Answer 7

When I was a kid I had a Golliwog doll and I really liked it, then the Golliwogs were banned and mine was taken away from me. I didn't distinguish the difference between blacks and whites until this and then I thought that black people were a little unfair. Since then I have spent a lot of time listening to people whinge about unfairly they are treated and having things constantly changed for their own piece of mind. To be honest I think you would have a lot less problems if you yourself stop pointing out the fact that you are different. I dont care if your black or not so why do you?

Answer 8

racism has something to with media and parents to a cetain degree. but racism is a normal part of human behaviour. the old saying of birds of a feather flock together sums it up pretty well. just look around the neighbouroods in any city in the world. racism will never go away.

Answer 9

I'm not really racist but I lost a lot of respect for black men. Personal experience, I was robbed by one. My parents never taught me to hate blacks. I make my own decisions according to judgment of character and I have found that a lot of black men are known for trouble.
I find it insulting that they think they have first choice of any woman they wish. And if a white woman don't like black guys in that way, (personal experience) their ego explodes and they start to harass the woman! They get nuts and blow off the handle and start verbally abusing the woman! Meanwhile, they have a wife and 10 kids at home, probably 5 other girlfriends on the other side of town. They go around planting their seeds and then don't take care of their own children. They spread STD's.
So my opinion about black men is ... I think a lot of them are dirty.

Answer 10

I'm not sure as to your assumption regarding media culpability for racism...except in the case of Fox News. Besides familial influences, racism is also sustained by cultural and historical factors. The US, for example, has not come to terms with its legacy of racism, so most white Americans deny that racism even still exists. Yet, just by this insensitivity to this issue, white Americans continue to prove time after time that racism is still alive in many of their hearts. Likewise, institutional racism in the US goes almost wholly unaddressed, because whites think that pretending the problem doesn't exist somehow gets rid of it.

Answer 11

the source of racism often came from your parents in the past and as far as the media is concerned 'dont shoot the messanger'. people are not as closed minded as they were perhaps 20 years ago so I believe that people in this day and age just need to look at whats around them.The government is partly to blame because of the over fair and sickeningly P.C way that they deal with minorities that refuse to assimilate the country they chose to move to.People that maybe a few months before who chose to run from exactly what they bought with them,narrow mindedness,fundamentalism and the complete inability to work with the people around them.I too am from a family of immigrants but the differance is that mine were Irish and came over to seek a better life in a country they believed in and not to just annex a part of Britian and call it Durkastan by the sea.