Racism

Are we naturally born racist?

Racism is not a new plague in our so called ‘open minded’ society. It exists in almost every country in the world be it in the west or in the east. Truth to be told, from my point of view, racism is not something we naturally born with but rather we learn to be racist.

Firstly, we learn racism through the stereotype that is existed in our society. For instance, a common stereotype that exists is we perceive white skin is better thus anyone with black skin are dreadful. So, if we, white people happen to encounter with a pregnant Indian woman and a White man in a train, we are expected to not give the seat for her but offer it to the man.

Furthermore, racism is learnt by believing that we are superior to other people. To illustrate this point, let’s say we are assured with our good educational backgrounds consequently we think we are supposed to be respected by others especially from lower class people. Therefore, if we bump into janitors or beggars, we tend to show that they are not in the same rank by shouting curse words to them although they do nothing horrible to us.

To conclude, racism is definitely learnt by people and is not a trait that we are born with. Hence, to stop racism, people have to learn to stop it rather than practice it in our daily life.

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