Dear editor to The Guardian,
On 23 January 2007, your newspaper published an article with the headline “How racist is Britain?”. In your article, Mr. Julian Baggini tells about his experiences in Rotherham and he explains why he does not believe that the British people are racists in general. In the article, Baggini argues that tolerance is the best we can hope for in a multicultural society, like Britain. I want to bring it up to your reader’s attention how big the problems with racism actually are.
In a modern country like Britain, there should not be any kind of segregation or assimilation. Julian Baggini describes how he repeatedly bumped into racially words, in the time he lived in Rotherham. I am outraged by the fact, how people use words like “Paki” and “Goreh”, as an ordinary way to mention different people from yourself. As a student in a school with many different nationalities, I know how important it is to respect each other and especially how important it is not to rank people by status or ethnic background. I speak from personal experience when I say that prejudices are destroyed in the moment you learn a person to know, whom you had prejudices against. How can we fight against prejudices? Baggini concludes that the best we can do is to hope for tolerance in a multicultural society. I have no doubt, that his conclusion is cursory and it will never be enough just to believe in a simple hope. I think we all have to do some more than just believe in a hope. My recommendation is that we all have to face the problems and realize that racism is a taboo subject. We have to strive after a community with successful integration. A community were people from different groups are treated as equals and do not feel a pressure from the