I just don't get it. My parents always taught me to judge on character and not color. I just don't understand these hateful feelings people have toward different races.
2007-02-04 18:39:50 · 9 answers · asked by ?Erroneous? 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Some people have different parents than you do. They have heard many comments in their lives from their parents that another race is such-and-such. That another race(s) is the source of most of society's ills. If they are drilled in that belief system, than it is hard to break free from what they know (from their parents).
Other people might become racist for different reasons. I am not really familiar with that. I am someone who was born in the early 80s, had parents who were apathetic towards race, was raised in the school system, and the popular media of the late 80s/90s, and race to me doesn't inherently seem like such a big deal. To me, the civil right movement was equal to any human rights movement you can imagine. Black rights, female rights, it is all about human rights. I have not personally grown up in racist home, but I know there ones out there, and they can be an influence on children's beliefs, despite the school system or anything else. Just like religion is.
2007-02-04 18:56:23 · answer #1 · answered by rgeleven 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I to was taught to view people as who they are and not what they look like, regardless of race, dress code, disability, attractivness, etc.
So long as people get hung up on their own egos and need to find others inferior so they can have a false sense of superiority their will be bias, and hatred based on something.
One of the best examples of the futility of this was a Star Trek episode from the original series where a race killed themselves to extinction because some had white on the right side of face and black on the left, while others had black on the right and white on the left.
Often it makes bigots angry when I encounter it I ask why they feel so inferior? Why do they think they are so much less than other people? Because if they didn't feel so insecure in themselves they would have no need to create the walls and barriers of bigotry.
When people can learn to be happy for the good things in others and realize that if someone else has something or has acheived something it does not make themselves less of a person they will grow and be just as creative and productive.
Then racism will be obsolete. Unfortunately it doesn't appear to be something coming soon.
2007-02-05 02:47:32 · answer #2 · answered by nowment 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Very much so, yes. I see some of the answers/question on here and I honestly can't believe some people still think the way they do. I'd like to think most people aren't racists anymore but, that's not true. In our PC society, some racists have just learned not to show their real feelings.
I think most racists just want someone they can feel superior too. There will always be racists, homophobes & hateful people as long as people are around. Sad but true. Some people cannot live without hate. So much of their time is spent hating that I can't imagine how fullfilling their lives are. I'm sure they muddle through and justify their hate somehow. Life is way too short to devote it to hating someone who doesn't affect or hurt you by just being alive.
2007-02-05 02:57:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Racism is prevalent because only the White countries of the world are importing people outside of their ethnic group.
And in the countries that Whites allow millions of non-Whites in, certain groups contribute disproportionally to the crime rate.
In the USA, Blacks commit a near majority of the crime but are 15% of the population. That's very disproportional and you can't expect people to not get upset. Also, they have it better here then in any country with a Black majority but still complain.
In Europe, they allow in millions of Muslims but the Muslims disproportionally leech off welfare systems and commit crime. You have them advocating for sharia law despite being guests in the countries.
Perhaps there is a reason that neither Africa nor Asia have millions of people outside of their race. So while Africa stays Black and Asia stays Asian, Europe and America do not stay White.
2007-02-05 03:22:26 · answer #4 · answered by Veltgen 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
racism is prevalent becasue of selfishness. people aren't ignorant about the fact that all human beings are equal regardless of their race. they know that all too well. problem with racists is that they feel inferior to other races (epecially indians & blacks) while other racists (especially whites) just can't accept that other people of other races can be equal(if not better) to them both financially and intellectually.
2007-02-05 02:56:34 · answer #5 · answered by therna 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Each person needs to reach out to someone of aother race and make a fiend there.
2007-02-05 02:53:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I often wonder the same thing but as long as there are people there is going to be racism...
2007-02-05 02:42:21 · answer #7 · answered by sammyd734 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
people are easily intimidated and scared to be on the bottom so they opress others to prevent them and their race from being on the bottom.
2007-02-05 02:42:48 · answer #8 · answered by Nat Turner 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Envy, jealousy and ignorance
2007-02-05 02:43:54 · answer #9 · answered by CA_Burn 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋