Racism is a major problem in the world. Racism is a very old issue. Racism has been part of American history since the land was first discovered. Many People have been affected by racism and have taken a stand against it. It would be good to be able to say that racism is just a thing of past and that it no longer exists; however, that is not true. Racism is an act where a person or group of people are discriminated against because of a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics; they have. We can see racism everywhere such as in college campuses, jobs and many other different places where human beings live. Racism is all about hating other culture, language, color of skin, religion, and nationality. No one wants to treat his/her self …show more content…
People learn stereotypes about racism from TV, radio and internet. When young people start exposing the stereotypes of specific group for the first time, that person will assume all are that way in life. When these all sources are constantly display negative things about a particular race, people use that negative things or stereotypes to judge other people. In the US, we can see racism more frequently than any other country in the world. For example, in my country, I never heard about racism that much but after coming in the US, I can see that problem. In colleges, when Black or Mexican students come to the class, many students think that they are not clever or some negative thinking about that. However, these all are the stereotypes. People cannot be judged for their cleverness by their races. In the US, there are many kind of people live, who have different culture and religion, but in the colleges or schools, we can see that the most of the students seat with their own culture groups such as Mexican, Indian, and other seat separately or hangout with them a lot then other. Thus, stereotyping is the most common reason that effect on people about …show more content…
This is another common cause of racism. Some people fear about what they don’t know or understand. If someone hasn’t grown up around a particular race than there is a chance about the person can be racist toward that particular group. For example, when I came first in the United States, I was thinking that American people will be rude, because I came from different part of the world. When I start to make American friends and start to understand their culture, I understand them better. Now I know that they are very helpful because I become familiar with them. This not all the time happens to everyone unless the people actual have real life experiences with at least one within the particular group. Then the chances of racism are increased, if they don’t start knowing other group.
The third reason is ignorance. It happens because lack of understanding and false perception about other people among their races. Ignorance happens because of uneducated and unaware people. If people cannot understand about the false beliefs about racism, we cannot eliminate racism from the world. There are some cases that led to ignorance is one person who act unfairly when they do not know they are wrong, but are unable, or refuse to accept that. From this refusal result can led to anger that is taken out in problem and their thinking, which most of the time is about becoming racist to that