We’ve been well versed with this particular word. Racism and its true meaning have emerged in the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries because of the slave trade by the United States of America. It’s not a fact unknown to many of us regarding the cruelty the African people were subjected to during that period. Of course we use this often verbally in phrases like, “dude don’t be a racist” or “such a racist”. But do we truly understand the concept of racism? I think no.
Racism consists of ideologies and practices that seek to justify the unequal distribution of privileges, rights or goods among different racial groups. Modern sense of it is often based in social perceptions of biological differences between people. Racism usually involves people of one kind who have the preconceived mindset that their culture and respective specifics of their race are superior to that of others. Despite all our denials that we aren’t racists, we come across very few people who don’t judge, and truly accept people for who they are. It isn’t surprising to note that in the modern world, people differentiate each other and judge each other based on skin color, caste, religion, language and maybe even the place which they hail from.
As the levels of qualification and financial stability of a certain class of people increase, they are blinded with a false sense of prestige and arrogance that makes them indifferent to the class of people a level below them. Tell me a something; don’t they breathe the same air that a poor man breathes? So why does the concept of racism arise? Okay, let us leave that, we’ll brush it off saying that money brings arrogance as a gift. But the common people like us? Don’t we judge people based on how they speak, eat and talk? And of course the way they behave? Don’t tell no, because frankly speaking my answer is yes, I will not lie. And yours will be too. And isn’t this a type of racism too?
The whole point of this article is not to preach about how not to be a racist. But it is to bring forward the common racist things we do in our daily life and to change them. For this we should understand the finer aspects of the concept of racism. It’s high time that we stop judging people for their language, culture, behavior, physical appearance and of course the main point their sex. Every person has a reason for the way they are, and you are no one to point your finger at them or make them feel low or hold them wrong, unless and until they interfere in your business. We’ve seen the number of people who have committed suicide because of this very problem. I want to conclude saying, there is a racist in most of us, despite our continual denial and maybe it’s time for us to broaden the view of the aspect of that six lettered word and kill the racist inside us for we are all humans and we are all a part of the same mother.
Racism consists of ideologies and practices that seek to justify the unequal distribution of privileges, rights or goods among different racial groups. Modern sense of it is often based in social perceptions of biological differences between people. Racism usually involves people of one kind who have the preconceived mindset that their culture and respective specifics of their race are superior to that of others. Despite all our denials that we aren’t racists, we come across very few people who don’t judge, and truly accept people for who they are. It isn’t surprising to note that in the modern world, people differentiate each other and judge each other based on skin color, caste, religion, language and maybe even the place which they hail from.
As the levels of qualification and financial stability of a certain class of people increase, they are blinded with a false sense of prestige and arrogance that makes them indifferent to the class of people a level below them. Tell me a something; don’t they breathe the same air that a poor man breathes? So why does the concept of racism arise? Okay, let us leave that, we’ll brush it off saying that money brings arrogance as a gift. But the common people like us? Don’t we judge people based on how they speak, eat and talk? And of course the way they behave? Don’t tell no, because frankly speaking my answer is yes, I will not lie. And yours will be too. And isn’t this a type of racism too?
The whole point of this article is not to preach about how not to be a racist. But it is to bring forward the common racist things we do in our daily life and to change them. For this we should understand the finer aspects of the concept of racism. It’s high time that we stop judging people for their language, culture, behavior, physical appearance and of course the main point their sex. Every person has a reason for the way they are, and you are no one to point your finger at them or make them feel low or hold them wrong, unless and until they interfere in your business. We’ve seen the number of people who have committed suicide because of this very problem. I want to conclude saying, there is a racist in most of us, despite our continual denial and maybe it’s time for us to broaden the view of the aspect of that six lettered word and kill the racist inside us for we are all humans and we are all a part of the same mother.
