Is rascism always rooted in hatred?

Answer 1

Typical roots of hate are insecurities (lack of self worth) and jealosy.

Answer 2

No it actually starts with fear of the unknown? Picture a caveman and say you are white and he is huge with a gruesome look on his face? His ways are different and indifferent from yours. First you are frightened, and then you see we form an opinion with our eyes about the difference? If we were blind we would not know the difference and we would not fear what we see? But then again if that caveman clubbed you in the head you would know he is the aggressor? But instinct is different when you are blind, you have more than the unknown to fear? However if the caveman came over and helped you out and did no aggressive acts then there would be no reason to fear him either with or without sight. But after the fear and between man is always a competitive nature, and then comes rivalry it excells when a relationship is not made in friendship? Still brothers fight over a game, then they make up, sometimes. And sometimes they build a hatred between them called jealousy and a need to feel superior, instead of using the common sense instinct that they could excell in progress together and be that as it may, it takes all kinds to make this world go around, and everyone has a space in time, if only we could get in tune with the right timing and turn the world forward. Oppression makes hatred like pain, and all of those things combined makes racism in one big knot.

Answer 3

I'd have to say ignorance, fear, and a superiority complex all contribute.

As society evolves and we realize we're all pretty much the same no matter what color we are or where we're from, racism will clearly become laughable.

Consider the inhumanity of slavery or the ignorance pushed upon immigrants because they're percieved as being 'different'- and different is always 'lesser' in such cases.

I also hope that as worldwide travel and communication become more common, more and more people will come to realize how similar everyone is.

Hopefully, racism will be a memory in a few generations. It's well on the way already, as we (as a planet) have come pretty far in the last hundred years. There's still a ways to go, but things are surely headed in the right direction.

Answer 4

Not always. Like the racism of one black person calling another the "n" word. The failure to be race blind is as much a problem within the race, as between races. And this is not rooted in hatred. It's rooted in apathy, where one person doesn't care about the impact of their statements or actions, even if they detrimentally affect their own race.

In the more classic cases of racism, Hatred usually comes later, The roots start at the same point as most other "isms": Personal preference.

If you allow you personal preference to limit or close your mind, or if you fail to allow your personal preferences to change, then it becomes fear, hatred, or both. At this point, personal preference assumes uglier mantles, such as racism.

Unfortunately, political correctness often identifies a person with a personal preference as an "ism" or "phobia". This pushes the person with a harmless preference (or one justified by personal ethics) into a state of defensiveness, creating hate or fear where none had previously existed.

The most common recent example, people who are against illegal immigration for economic, legal, or other moral reasons being accused instead of racism. One response for many of those accused is resentment for the accusation, leading to hate/fear, and eventually a true racism where none existed before.

Answer 5

Racism has actual historical roots. The Western Europeans introduced racism in their encounters with African and Australian Aborigines. Most non-historians will say racism has always existed in one form or another, but when actually doing the research, this is where it starts.

There is an actual documented history of racism, including the medical and quasi-anthropological practices of a wide array of doctors and scientists from Germany, France, and England. Without getting into each scientist/doctor and what each of them said, it can be summed up by the lack of understanding of those who which they were colonizing and the need to justify the conquer. There were many stabs made at environmentalising races (i.e. saying that those in hot climates were lazy). Heck, the British even engaged in the hunting of African Bushmen as a "big game sport." Even moral supremacists like John Stuart Mill supported this movement in a way, though he supported a nurturing role in bringing the "inferior" races up to par with the "naturally superior" Western Europeans.

By the way, trying to define race is nearly, if not, impossible (skull types...maybe).

Answer 6

In my opinion Racism is rooted in Ignorence which leads to fear and results in Hatred.
I feel that racists should not be banned, their arguments should be writ large to allow the world to see how far from the truth their argument actually is.
Take for example the links listed in James Earl Rays answer to this question. The first link shows a video which shows a series of whites who have been murdered by blacks. The whites tend to be young, beautiful and killed in awful circumstances.
There is no getting away from the fact that they were killed by a black person, or that a huge amount of black on white crime takes place in the USA, but, the video does not discuss the fact that criminals tend to come from poor communities.
Nor does it discuss the fact that blacks make up a large amount of the poor communities.
Nor does it discuss the fact that the blacks of America have been kept as the poor majority by a white american society.
Nor does it discuss the fact that (this may be a shock to some of you) WHITE PEOPLE MURDER WHITE PEOPLE AND BLACK PEOPLE AS WELL!
Unlike the white supremacists, i recognise that my arguement is not necessarily a good one, its certainly not the only one. I will stand to be corrected, but at least give me a good arguement not bigoted rheotric.
By the way i am not black, just thought i would make that clear for the people who are probably reading this and thinking "hes only saying this cos he's black" and for those who think i might be a "liberal pinko" i actually feel that Judge Dredd should be let onto the streets.
I'll get off my soapbox now - thanks for listening

Answer 7

Most racism is rooted in fear of the unknown. Most racist do not have significant negative experiences from which to draw from. However, some people have been hurt by people of other races. There racism may be rooted in hatred, since they have genuine experience to react to.

Answer 8

Rascism isn't a solid element, however the entire rely is uncontrolled. i've got heard people who are not white say the countless maximum rascist issues and not something happens to them, yet whilst a white does it makes national information. "opposite rascism" or in spite of you % to call it is purely as undesirable.

Answer 9

No racism isn't always rooted in hatred. It's rooted in fear. Most of the time, people fear other people because they don't understand them. I think the whole thing of racism is just stupid. Why can't people just except other people, regardless of their skin color. Hope that answered your question

Answer 10

There was a time when people who looked different would usually storm your village and kill, rape, and steal just about everything. During those times racism made sense, in a sense. More recently racism was based on the need to dehumanize those who were being exploited.

Answer 11

Racism is rooted in fear. Not necessarily physical fear. Fear of retribution, fear of change, fear of the unknown, and fear of confrontation with the self are just a few examples of the types of fear that lead to racism in general. Rationalization, defense, and denial of those fears lead to hatred.