Racism/Discrimination questions for my research paper?

Question

I'm doing a paper on racism/discrimination and I was wondering if you all could answer some questions for me:

1. When do you believe the problem of racism/discrimination began?

2. What is the nature of the problem?

3. What has been done about the problem up to now?

4. What are some proposed solutions?


Thanks so much if you answer :)

wow, first answerr, your an asshole.

first and third answers didn't help, they just made me realize what sick disgusting jerks we have in the United States, please don't answer unless you are going to have repect for other cultures and ethnicities.

Thanks you SO much to those who took my questions serioulsy and answered with their opinion yet repectively, I now have a better outlook on how to pull my paper together, and what else to consider.

Answer 1

1. Too long ago to be precise about a date.

2. Fear of outsiders, or fear of those who appear more different that the group we belong to, and have a different language or culture, that may be hard for us to comprehend.

3. Political correctness -- hasn't worked. Actually makes the problems worse.

4. All human beings are one single species. We all need to inter-breed together until we are all a nice warm brown shade, and curly hair would help, too.

Answer 2

I do not support suicide bombings for any reason, before or after. Historically, terrorism is doomed to failure. it has never once in history achieved the political goals it professed to seek. It is therefore a senseless act, and criminal. I was ambivalent about Muslims before 9/11. I didn't know any, but assumed they were not much different from anyone else. Since 9/11, I have studied Islam and it's roots, and have engaged in correspondences with a number of Muslims around the world. What I have found is that Islam is a mind-control cult promulgated by a cult leader who was possibly insane, and definitly criminal. Muslims living in Dar-al-Islam exist in a separate reality from the west, where history is written differently, and facts take a back seat to a fantasy reality that is invented to hide the obvious shortcomings of an inconsistent religion. Western logic as taught by the ancient greeks is disdained because the reality of Islam is antithetical to logic. Insanity may be described as the clinging to a belief that is demonstrably false, to the detriment of the believer. It is a serious mistake to assume that a common understanding can be achieved with a population, when that population has been trained from birth to be certifiably insane. For the Islamic converts, I feel they have been sold a bill of goods, and have not explored the roots of Islam. Like most cults, this can be very attractive to someone who does not have a good foundation in history, sociology or theology. That a Christian can convert to Islam tells me that the Christian did not know much about Christianity.

Answer 3

Racism is an age old problem and it did not just start with the black slaves. Hitler was a racist. Anyone who hates another group of people simply for their ethnic background is a racist. I would also like to add that blacks are just as if no more so racist against whites. The nature of the problem is ignorance and that is a learned trait passed from one generation to the next. I don't think that we will ever cure racism until some generations teach their children not to hate. Given the progress we've made that doesn't seem to be happening.

Answer 4

1 I believe racism/discrimination can date back to when Columbus claimed America, despite the fact that he knew and had communicated with the Indianans inhabiting America

2 Scapegoating and supremacist attitudes

3 From what I know race relations were on the way to be mended in the 60's with great progression through the 70-80's something seems to have changed around the time of the at its best in the Iran-Iraq War in the 80's (Persian Gulf war) race relations in America started back tracking, but this goes along with a change in the economy (the wars)---produces scapegoating, the blame game.

4 Until America realized that we work as a unit, there will be no change..no operation works smoothly with distension, despise, hate, and contempt, if this was a company we would be bankrupt.......hmmm on second thought, America is......isn't it

Answer 5

The first answer first of all is proof that racism is alive and well. (take a look at her username btw)
I hope that person is kicked off here.
Are you referring to the U.S. or EVERYWHERE?
1. White people have always been racist. No offense, but it's true. It started with the Native Americans
2.?
3. Education. Education is the key to stopping racism
4. Bring racism out in the open, like on Paula Zahn Now.

See below for more information! Good luck on the paper.

Answer 6

First off, my answer is purely opinion, as most answers you will receive will be.

That said,

1) It began with the birth of civilization.

2) The nature of the problem is not skin color or gender, rather a clash of cultures. For example, when a white person hates a black person, or vise versa, it's not the skin color they hate, rather the person who hates typically fears the other person's culture, even if the differences in their cultures are slight. People fear changes in their cultures because it induces stress. When you accept someone of a different race or gender (yes, men and women have different cultures, even within the same household sometimes), what you are really doing is accepting their culture and respecting it, which sometimes not easy to do. That is why it is so much easier for people to hate, because it is simply easier to reject someone's culture than to incorporate it into your own.

I have known people of race A who will accept people of race B if race B has largely adopted race A's culture, but if race B does not accept race As culture, bigotry often emerges.

3) More has been done to address this problem than can be listed here and do it any justice. Unfortunately, all the things done to solve this problem have largely failed because the masses do not understand the root of the problem...culture. The media doesn't help, and doesn't want to help. Racism has done more to bring up the ratings of certain news networks than anything else.

4) Education. Education. Education. From my perspective, most social problems, from racism, to sexual discrimination, to physical abuse, to drunk driving, can be largely prevented if education about these problems is begun at an early enough age for it to profoundly influence a person's life.

As I said, this is all purely opinion as most (if not all) your answers will be.

Answer 7

When God cast Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden.
If you go to public school: It would be something about monkeys not liking each other because they are different.

Racist people like to blame their problems on other people and if they can attack a big category with no one in particular they can whine about they feel safe and hide behind each other.
It is all base on misplaced fear.

Up to now:
God sent his Son a Jew and made things real difficult for the racists. They say they are Christians yet they have none of Jesus's qualities.

The solution is to let the racists to sink there own ship. They are uneducated, come from broken homes,have a family history of alcoholism, have a family history of physical and sexual abuse,
and usually are involved with methamphetamine products.

Answer 8

The problem of racism/descrimination began when some people wants to establish their status as more powerful than the others and at the same time when the other people seem to be powerless and hopeless. (I guess)

Solutions would be dialogue with one another, identifying your differences and using it in helping the others.

Answer 9

1. Easy, it began when some fools brought slaves here. There is always some lazy fool willing to ruin everything for their own gain.
2. Easy. Now they are here, they won't leave even though they are not wanted and cause economic hardship.
3. Nothing except to make it worse by kissing their ****.
4. Give every one of them a plane ticket and send them back where they came from.