Racism has become one of the many burdens amongst multi-cultural countries all over the world. Racism is a part of each and every one of us. No doubt, we are all racist, but this term racism has been used too loosely. Racism has been changed to such an extent that it could be a reason for war, a symbol of terrorism, and even an excuse for neglecting. Is that all there is to it? No, actually it is just the beginning. Racism is just like warfare in which there is no shelter and nobody is neutral. Even if you say you are neutral if you are not helping the problem, you are just contributing to it.
People are afraid of the unknown, and people act stupidly when they are afraid. Like for instances in the earlier stages of the US. African Americans were forced to be slaves and when people started to free their slaves a Ku Klux Klan was developed to scare these people out of their towns because they were afraid of them because they were different.
This Klan even though only meant to scare these people started to go a lot farther.
Many people died in the civil war because of racism but not as many as in World War 2. This war was started when Germany's dictator Adolph Hitler invaded Poland in hopes to purify to the world of all blacks and Jews because he thought that whites were a superior race.
In WW2, over 17 million troops were killed and the number of civilian casualties was countless due to starvation, bomb raids, epidemics, massacres and other war-related causes. All this because one man thought his nation would be more powerful if he illuminated what he thought was the lower class. However, his plan was not effective other countries saw what he was doing, after a long and bloody war, he was stopped, and to this day Germany's economy still suffers for his mistakes. Nevertheless, even this wasn't enough for people to learn from his mistakes and see that racism only weakens a p
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