Hello friends when we talk about racism, we talk about the superiority that a person feels for others because they belong to different races or ethnicities. Racism seeks a hierarchical order among ethnic groups in order to justify the privileges and advantages that the dominant group usufruct.
In order to oppose racism the United Nations (UN) adopted in 1965 the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and determined on March 21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination .
Racism and xenophobia
Racism is the rejection of biological differences towards a person who is considered inferior, that is, it is an ideology of superiority. Xenophobia comes from the Greek xenos meaning "foreigner" and phóbos meaning "fear," therefore, it is a rejection only towards foreigners.
Racism and racial discrimination
Racism is a theory based on the prejudice according to which different human races or ethnic groups have biological differences that justify relations of superiority among them, such as rejection, aggression.
Rational discrimination is the act of separating, distinguishing one person from another by belonging to a different social category and positive discrimination is when discriminations are settled in order to recognize the equality of the people harmed in order to combat racism.
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Racism and ethnocentrism
Racism is the contempt of an individual for belonging to a different race or ethnic group. The ethnocentric attitude of a group or race that values its own culture as superior to other cultures.
Racism and Homophobia
Racism is the repudiation against people resorting to racial motives, skin tone or other physical characteristics of individuals. Homophobia is the rejection against homosexual men and women.
Origin of racism
Racism emerged in Western Europe in order to justify the supremacy of the white race over the rest of humanity.
Racism was used from the last decades of the nineteenth century by European countries to verify the legality of movements of colonial domination, jingoism and genocide, in various parts of the world.
Racism in the United States during colonization
Slavery in the United States began with black African slaves and people of African descent and, rarely, with Amerindians. Slavery is prohibited in the United States in the year 1865, after the Civil War.
Nazi racism and the Jewish and gypsy holocaust
The progress of racism in German culture had its maximum progress with the national socialist movement, better known as Nazism, was led by Adolf Hitler, who gained great support from the German people between 1930 and 1940 until the Second World War in the year 1945. Nazi racism was directed towards people of Jewish origin and people belonging to the Roma people.
South African racism during apartheid
Apartheid was a regime of racial segregation or rejection established in South Africa by an ethnic group of Dutch or Boer or Afrikaner origins.
Apartheid proper was undertaken in 1948 with the seizure of power by social power, this party established a racist regime that strengthened the domination of the white minority and made the miscegenation of the population impossible, that is, it prohibited marriage between white people and color, prohibited the sexual act between a white person and an African, Indian or colored person.
In 1955, some opposition organizations created a common alliance for the struggle of freedom and to institute a state without racial discrimination. The anti-racist struggles were repressed by the Boer regime, among the leaders was Nelson Mandela who was arrested and remained in prison for 27 years (1963-1990).
Beginning in the 1970s, the South African regime began to be rejected by world public opinion and most of the international community.
Currently, racism is considered a punishable offense ranging from minor to greater penalties.
conclusions
As it is possible that 200 years have passed and there are still racists both at work and in social life with discrimination, you do not gain anything, in adolescents there is also racism in their school, in the university, children at an early age have to teach them to have a principle that we are all human beings and we all have the same right as others. This world is free to express what we feel and live our life our way.
It does not matter if you are gay, black, white, Indian, Chinese, Russian, we are all "physically" the same, we have the same feelings, we feel pain, joy, fear ect ... we live in an era that we all have freedom of expression, we will live In the age of Internet, of social networks, that one can talk to anyone in the world, regardless of whether it is Korean, African or French, Steemit is a dino example of something, steemit has been in charge of uniting people from all over the world. world and will continue to unite more people over the years, good steemit I will talk more in another publication for the time enjoy your day.
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