What Is Racism?

Europe's colonial attitude towards the orientals exemplifies this as it was thought that the east was the opposite of the west; feminine where the west was masculine, weak where the west was strong and traditional where the west was progressive. By making these generalizations and othering the east, europe was simultaneously defining herself as the norm, further entrenching the gap. The word racism competed in the early twentieth century with the older word racialism, which is now much rarer. We all have a responsibility to examine the causes and effects of racism in our country.

“at best, white people have been taught not to mention that people of colour are ‘different’ in case it offends us. They truly believe that the experiences of their life as a result of their skin colour can and should be universal. I just can’t engage with the bewilderment and the defensiveness as they try to grapple with the fact that not everyone experiences the world in the way that they do. Opening conversations with shared values helps to emphasize society’s role in affording a fair chance to everyone. We suggest bridging from shared values to the roles of racial equity and inclusion in fulfilling those values for all.

When used in this way, racism typically refers to a system that has oppressed people of color all over the world throughout history. Such a system is often thought to operate through white people using the advantages that the system gives them to maintain their supremacy over people of color . Particularly in the u.S., it’s used to refer to a system that has historically oppressed and continues to oppress black people, native americans, and other people of color, including latinx, asian, middle eastern, and australian aboriginal and other oceanic peoples.

Race based u.S. Citizenship laws and anti-miscegenation laws directly inspired the nazi's two principal nuremberg racial laws—the citizenship law and the blood law. Hitler's 1925 memoir mein kampf was full of admiration for america's treatment of "Coloreds". Nazi expansion eastward was accompanied with invocation of america's colonial expansion westward, with the accompanying actions toward the native americans. In 1928, hitler praised americans for having "Gunned down the millions of redskins to a few hundred thousand, and now keeps the modest remnant under observation in a cage." on nazi germany's expansion eastward, in 1941 hitler stated, "Our mississippi must be the volga."

A suspect apparently motivated by a white supremacist agenda shot dead 10 shoppers. Analysis shows that mass shootings – and those at grocery stores – are on the rise. A scholar of social work shares what he has learned about colorism by conducting research in more than 20 countries over the past few decades. A department of health and social care spokesperson said the maternity disparities taskforce would "Level up maternity care for all women". "If I had not have been hospitalised, I don't think I'd be sitting here right now. And I don't think my daughter would be. I've met some amazing midwives and doctors but I think all my experiences in my pregnancies and labour have been tainted by my race. While death in pregnancy or childbirth is very rare in the uk, there are stark racial disparities in maternal mortality rates.