In our nature we are all racists. No matter where, no matter when. We allways find a reason to hate someone...
03/01/2014, 07:01
Yours wouldn't be the ONLY country, but certainly not EVERY country.
For starters, many places don't even acknowledge that the concept of "race" exists. Scientifically it doesn't. Our "race" is human.
There are plenty of countries that are not ethnically diverse, and so have no strong opinions on other ethnic groups that they might go their whole lives without meeting a single member. I'm not saying they don't prejudge other people (of course they do) but it is much more common to prejudge based on nationality than "race".
Mainly it comes from parents not teaching racism to their children... OR, I think, anti-racism, which despite its good intentions is still dividing people up into groups based on skin tone and insisting they be treated differently. It's a bad groundwork to lay, teaching children to group people by "race", regardless of your perceived reasons for doing so.
I grew up never having learned to consider myself a "white person" or anyone else as "black, brown, or yellow". These were words no one around me ever used (at least not in reference to people). Those are terms and concepts I could only learn from watching TV from the USA.
My best friend in the 3rd and 4th grades (before I changed schools) was named Conrad. Conrad... had some natural advantages playing hide-and-seek in dimly lit areas, at least until you walked past him and he smiled. The great majority of students in that school in those years (because it's different now) were Caucasian, and yet I never, not even ONCE heard any other student or adult refer to Conrad as "the black kid" (or any ruder variation). He was always only "Conrad", to everyone.
I think this was a very good way to grow up.
For starters, many places don't even acknowledge that the concept of "race" exists. Scientifically it doesn't. Our "race" is human.
There are plenty of countries that are not ethnically diverse, and so have no strong opinions on other ethnic groups that they might go their whole lives without meeting a single member. I'm not saying they don't prejudge other people (of course they do) but it is much more common to prejudge based on nationality than "race".
Mainly it comes from parents not teaching racism to their children... OR, I think, anti-racism, which despite its good intentions is still dividing people up into groups based on skin tone and insisting they be treated differently. It's a bad groundwork to lay, teaching children to group people by "race", regardless of your perceived reasons for doing so.
I grew up never having learned to consider myself a "white person" or anyone else as "black, brown, or yellow". These were words no one around me ever used (at least not in reference to people). Those are terms and concepts I could only learn from watching TV from the USA.
My best friend in the 3rd and 4th grades (before I changed schools) was named Conrad. Conrad... had some natural advantages playing hide-and-seek in dimly lit areas, at least until you walked past him and he smiled. The great majority of students in that school in those years (because it's different now) were Caucasian, and yet I never, not even ONCE heard any other student or adult refer to Conrad as "the black kid" (or any ruder variation). He was always only "Conrad", to everyone.
I think this was a very good way to grow up.
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