Sunday, December 13, 2015

HOW DOES RACISM HAPPEN?

Racist behaviour may include:

DISCRIMINATION
To treat differently a person or group of people based on their racial origins. Power is a necessary precondition, for it depends on the ability to give or withhold social benefits, facilities, services, opportunities etc., from someone who should be entitled to them, and are denied on the basis of race, colour or national origin.

STEROTYPE
Stereotyping refers to the belief harbored by people about a certain type of people or individuals or a belief about a social group. It is based on certain assumptions which have been made many years ago and are being followed to date. It can be explained in simple language as being an impression in the mind of a person or a group of people about another person or a group of people. Reasons for stereotyping is a lack of familiarity with other individuals.

SARCASTIC
Sarcastic is the belief that one's own race is inferior to all or most others, and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of all other races. In common Sarcastic Racism, one may believe that their own race should be denied rights or benefits while a completely misanthropic minority of people will use their own race as a basis to sarcastically insult other races, but while maintaining a hatred of their own race to a greater or to the same degree

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