i.e. the history of it or any facts about the history.
2007-10-24 12:49:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
It started the first time that there was a visible minority. When that was is the real question. My guess would be about 4000 years ago.....give or take.
2007-10-24 12:54:49 · answer #1 · answered by TLB 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Racism is always based on fear. Fear of change. Fear another group will take over. Confident and brave people are never racists.
There was discrimination against Chinese people in Canada, when they started to arrive in large numbers. Now they are accepted, except by the ignorant minority who live in the wrong century and will never change.
Same with people from India.
When I was a kid in the 50's, Canada accepted quite a few displaced persons from the war in Europe. I remember "DP' being used as an insult for anyone stupid or incompetent--until my dad found out we were talking that way and hit the roof.
2007-10-24 13:58:38 · answer #2 · answered by Pagan Dan 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People began to discriminate against visible minorities when they realized the difficulties of discriminating against the invisible ones.
Seriously, discrimination exists in the animal kingdom, so I'm sure it's about as old as dirt. At least we don't bark.
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2007-10-24 13:26:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cultural anthropology concludes the first possible discrimination was in Africa when the Pygmies where forced into the mountains of the moon in east Africa thousands of years ago
2007-10-24 13:45:41 · answer #4 · answered by Commandant Marcos 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it started when a cave man noticed the guy next to him had more body hair. Soon everyone avoided the hairy man. The point is discrimination starts with differences in people.
2007-10-24 12:59:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
There has been descrimination and xenophobia throughout history, we can only speculate as to it's origins. If you're into evolution, for instance, it may have been an adaptive trait that re-inforced family and tribal bonds, or that allowed different bands of early humans to compete for scarce resources, while retaining the benefits of cooperation within the group.
2007-10-24 13:15:20 · answer #6 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It starts with 100% insecurity in one's own abilities.
2007-10-24 13:52:36 · answer #7 · answered by HBVmmvii 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know when it started, but it continues by people who use words like racism and discrimination.
2007-10-24 13:34:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
here is a little advertised fact...Slavery still hasn't ended in ..................AFRICA.....
that could end your timeline of discrimination and history
2007-10-24 13:21:29 · answer #9 · answered by TG79 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Start when "Lucy" came down from the trees and walked upright.
2007-10-24 12:59:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋