Why are people racist?? i cant understand how the colour of someones skin can make a differents?

Answer 1

Fear is a big part of Racism. Fear causes people to shun race and religion amongst other things. Fear of what is different. Fear of change. Fear is why people will separate and hate.

Curiosity is the counterbalance. Curiosity is fear overcome. It takes courage to accept new ideas and challenges, people and religions.

If you seek to instill people with curiosity, all the things that are kept apart will be brought back together.

All it takes is to start with a question. Help me understand...? Help me understand why my skin color upsets you?

Keep on asking until there isn't anything words left for them to throw. Then, when the foolishness of their fear is laid out for their own eyes to see, they will have the opportunity to become something more.

Be ever curious.

Answer 2

Why ? because it's a way of dividing people. I don't know what race you belong to, but I'd bet that if you live in an area where only a few of your race live, you will make friends with those of your own race rather than finding friends from the other groups.
When that happens those of the larger group feel that the smaller group is a cliche, and don't want to mingle with them, so they're cut off from the larger group.
If you're in a work group and all of the other workers are of a different race than you. would you wish ( to yourself ) that there were more of your race ? Then why are you racist ? What's the difference ?

Answer 3

People are "racist" because they are taught to fear / hate / judge people of a different skin tone. This is something that happens from birth and/or childhood and derives entirely from one's environment. It not a genetic trait, but something passed down from families and cultures to new families and new cultures.

Also keep in mind that the term "racist" is a problem in itself. It might be more accurate to say that someone is "tonist" if they judge another person based on their skin tone. Using the term "racist" suggests that people of different skin tones are different degrees of human, which is simply NOT true.

This is because there is only one race:

the HUMAN race.

Answer 4

Society has a pretty basic illness, and racism is a symptom of that. The illness is basically that people enjoy hurting people and putting other people down. This conflicts with the part of them that wants to be a positive part of other people's lives and that makes them feel guilty when they do evil to others. In order to feed the monster side of yourself without destroying the positive self-image you have is to decide that some people are lower than you.

Each racist has to fill in the blank as to why a whole bunch of people are inferior, whether it is a white guy calling black people lazy, or a black person calling white people evil, it makes no difference. Decide that a stranger (because once you actually take time to meet someone, the stereotype usually falls apart) is less than human, and then there is no problem hurting them. One is able to be evil and still be a good person, at least in their own mind.

I think the desire to slight other people, whether it is simply masocistic or to elevate ourselves over someone, is what needs to be changed. If we simply get past the color of people's skin, I think we'll find a new reason to find strangers to hate unless we can get rid of that desire to hate in the first place.

Answer 5

People are afraid of what they don't know. Because they don't know a person because of the color of their skin, they make assumptions or make up stereotypes. The worst part is when people within the same race judge their own people based on the lightness or darkness of their skin. For example, I have been told people in Asian cultures prefer their skin to be extremely light and give preferential treatment to lighter toned Asians.
It's the same way with overweight or underweight people. People tend to think a superskinny person has an eating disorder and that is why they are so skinny. My sister did not have an eating disorder, she was naturally super skinny. I on the other hand are overweight and people tend to think I eat to much or I am lazy. They don't know I have a thyroid disorder and a hormonal imbalance that puts weight on a person.

Answer 6

I honestly believe that if every single person in the world was the same color, we would still have racism. A main reason for the problem is intolerance of difference. Example, I'm sitting quietly in a plane waiting for take off. In walks a man of a different color and starts a conversation with a guy in the back of the plane. Like we all want to listen to his stupid conversation that is filled with words that are "English" but so butchered that it is barely understandable. Example: a family moves in next door, in 3 weeks they have 30 relatives stacked like cord wood in the place. They fight constantly and have awful hygiene. This creates hate in my quiet little cracker world. Racism comes from cultural differences more than color. I grew up in a lily white community with a single black guy. This guy was as white acting as any of us. Same culture, different color.

Answer 7

Sounds bad but it is human nature.

It is not just about skin color. That is just one example. Humans tend to group together, like with like.

If there is someone who is not like you, then you (I used the term "you" generally, not referring to you specifically) might not necessarily want to be around them or have some preconceived notion about them.

Also, it depends on what your society dictates. For instance, have you ever noticed the color of Band-Aids? Or what I grew up with, the color "Flesh" in the Crayons box? Those colors did not look like my skin color or my darker skinned friends. It is a subtle but powerful form of racism. So it seems unavoidable that we all carry some form of prejudice in our hearts and minds.

It is rare that you find someone who is not racist in some form or fashion. If you are one of those who are truly "color blind" then I commend you. Most humans are simply not that evolved.

Answer 8

This poem was nominated poem of 2005. Written by an African kid, amazing thought:

When I born, I Black,
When I grow up, I Black,
When I go in Sun, I Black,
When I scared, I Black,
When I sick, I Black,
And when I die, I still black…
And you White fellow,
When you born, you pink,
When you grow up, you White,
When you go in Sun, you Red,
When you cold, you blue,
When you scared, you yellow,
When you sick, you Green,
And when you die, you Gray…
And you call me colored...!!

Answer 9

I think some people are raised to be racist.Other, I think just choose to be. Why? I'm not sure.

Answer 10

Racism is a pigment of the imagination.