Racism
Assumption
- Political and social conclusion can be drawn from difference between races in the world
Dispute to Racism
Race cannot be changed or decided. But it’s used to reflect cultural stereotypes
- Blacks as criminals
- Muslims as terrorists
Types of Racism
Racist association with conservative nationalism
- Stable and successful society must be bound together by a common culture and shared values.
- Therefore, ‘non-whites’ were banned from entering European nations as it threatens ‘white’ cultures
Religion Based Racism
- In the 19th Century, the Christian peoples were thought of as ‘superior’ over the ‘heathens’ of Africa and Asia.
- The Ku Klux Klan also got their justification from the bible
Racism based on Quasi-science
Nazi Germany claims inescapable nature of people that are supposedly backed up by scientific beliefs.