Is everyone in the world racist?

Question

If we are honest isn't everyone a racist? This was the theme of the movie "CRASH". You have the village idiot that runs about using racial slurs and his racism is obvious. Do civilized people have racial bias which manifests itself in other ways. example: Not sitting next to someone on the subway because he or she is of another race?

Answer 1

Everyone is racist to some extent. Whether it is blatent hatred or just an uneasy feeling you get being around a member of a different race.

Answer 2

No, not everyone is racist. Racism is something that is usually taught within families and handed down such as with the KKK or other white supremacy groups. The person who said that not wanting to kiss a leper or sitting next to a homeless person on a bus is considered racist but that is not true. For the record, I actually did sit next to a homeless man on the bus while I was in San Francisco and did not have a problem with it. I would say that that is more of a tolerance and a sensitivity issue and intolerance and a lack of education is what breeds racism as well as ethnocentrism.

Answer 3

There was a great accidental experiment on race relations during the filming of one of the old Planet of the Apes movies. During the lunch breaks the monkey extras had to stay in makeup. Someone noticed that the chimps sat with the chimps, the orangs with the orangs and the gorillas with the gorillas. The fact is people like being with others like themselves. Is that racism? I think racism has to involve a degree of hate. The hate comes from fear and ignorance. It can also grow when someone blames others for their problems.

I don't think everyone is a racist. I do think most people are, but try everyday to get past it. Hopefully, there are less and less people everyday that actually embrace and promote it.

Answer 4

I find it fascinating to see how few poeple understand the meaning of the word racist. A racist is a person who believes that one race or another is genetically superior. Recent DNA studies prove that there is little difference between races. The question should be 'Is everyone in the world a bigot' and the answer is yes to some degree. Knowledge of others is the only way people learn to not become bigots. Racism is antiquated, but is the most commonly misused term that I know of in the English language. Bigotry is however alive and well in all of us! In terms of racism, the person who mentioned that anti-white sentiments worldwide was racism has the closest idea to reality.

Answer 5

It would seem that way,you dont have to go back a year ago to the movie Crash but a month to the most sickening racist rant by the beloved actor Kramer.Racism is a sickness with diagnosed syptoms of ignorance.I use to think education was the cure for racism but not any more.Only common sense can innoculate you from this disease.

Answer 6

I can say that the white race is the only race that has been utterly brow beaten against racism for 2 centuries. NO OTHER race in the world has had so much training against racism in human history. It is a common perception among all races of the world that white people are racist. And this is a form a racism, a most incidious and prevalent form of racsim because most people refuse to acknowlege it thus, including whites, but especially by the most populous and racist racists in the world, Chinese, Hispanics, Indians and Africans, in that order. If I were a white person trapped in an exploding car I would react the same as the accident victim in that film to most people in the world: no, not you, any body but you, not you!!! I have been treated that badly by people of all other races.

Answer 7

I don't think people are racist because of the skin color or where they came from. But I am worried because of "ATTITUDE". Everyone thinks they're owed something. African-American because of slavery, Jewish because of the Holocaust, Japanese because of Hiroshima. Mexican-Americans because of land disputes. Every race of people have been mistreated, that's life then, that's life now and it will be life in the future. People want what they can't have and they'll do anything to have their culture appeased. No one owes anyone anything. We need to learn to fix the problems of living diversely. If people could get over the past and just try to make the world a nicer place to live. Let people live and believe in what they want. They'll do it anyway. We all need to settle down and look at the big picture. Too much garbage to save hit the delete key.

Answer 8

Yes every one is racist in some for or another. Now that does not mean they run around lynching people, but they have some kind of preconceived notions about other cultures and races.

And the forms of racism are amazing as well, you have the hardcore ones like the KKK attack various races too the "Apologists" who feel it necessary to apologize for things our/their ancestors did ages ago and that we really had no control over and by doing so will some how purge themselves of their own biases or preconceived notions.

Even my mom who loved every one, who never judged an individual based on what they looked like would make blanket statements about various races that were archaic to say the least.

Answer 9

"Cuban friend" has the best point here. People need to find out what racist really means and stop throwing the term around at everybody. The whole "racist" witch hunt has reached the level of ridiculousness.

Answer 10

Yes, everyone is, you don't want to sit next to a bum that smells, kiss a leper, have your daughter marry a homeless man, Prejudice can be considered racist. Religion is the worst. Most religious people are against atheists and try to convert them.