Racism and Prejudice
People of the world are part of different races, which share different biologically transmitted traits that members of society deem socially significant. Nineteenth-century biologist labeled people with relatively light skin and fine hair as Caucasians; they called those with darker skin and coarser, curlier hair Negroid; and people with yellow or brown skin and distinctive folds on the eyelids were termed Mongoloid. Sociologist consider such categories misleading since we now know that no society is composed of biologically pure individuals because of the human migration and the interracial births. People with different races have different ethnicity or different shared cultural heritage. Members of an ethnic category have common ancestor, language, or religion that, together, confer a distinctive social identity. Race and ethnicity are different since one is biological and the other is cultural. But the two sometimes go hand in hand. Some people distinguished by physical or cultural traits are socially disadvantaged, this category of persons is called a racial or ethnic minority. Minorities share the same identity; they are set apart and sub
In the first part of the survey the males tended to favor more the look of the picture than the photo's race. Women tended to show a little negative discrimination towards the colored person picture. In the second part of the survey both of the genders encouraged interracial marriage and neither of the to sexes disagreed or strongly disagreed. Pluralism is a state in which racial and ethnic minorities are distinct but have social parity. Pluralism is the goal of our society's recent trend toward multiculturalism. The most brutal form of racism is the genocide which is the systematic annihilation of one category of people by another. This happened during the course of history when the nazis exterminated more than 6 million Jewish man, woman, and children in what has become the Holocaust. Also in Cambodia between 1975 and 1980, Pol Pot's communist regime condemned to death 2million people for being able to speak any Western language and even individuals who wore eyeglasses, viewed as a symbol of capitalist culture.
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