Category: English 10

T-Chart Racism in America

When is the words racism mention what comes to mind? To most people racism is when one believes that his/her genetically physical characteristics are better than the characteristics of another race. But what does not comes mind is racism did and can lead to the elimination of another race, division of a nation and the enslavement of another race, as what took place in history. In this modern time where there are laws against discrimination of any sort and words like ” we are created equally “are said almost everywhere, one will think racism does not exist and it is part of history. But racism is still around because the causes of racism still exist. Therefore we should examine the causes of racism. Sometimes racism can develop among people of different race because of the lack of knowledge about the other race culture, belief, and history. Since little is known about the other race their behavior can be misinterpreted. For example, the pilgrims that settled in America taught the Native Social norms is also one of the causes of racism because some people are taught to dislike other race by their family or someone who has great influence on them.And in some instances, they tend to pass what they were taught to the next generation. For example of a social norm, one of my High school classmates were taught by his parents to dislike a certain race because they were considered to be “bad influence”. In the film “Skin Deep,” one of the students was saying that when one black person shoplift the whole black community feel the effect because the other races will look at black people as shoplifters.That is a perfect example of stereotyping where the whole race is generalized as something that there are not.