Michael1942's Blog

Racism as defined as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority or inferiority of a particular racial group. Racism is possibly one of the worst experiences one can have and yet it is more prevalent in all countries than most of us will ever realize. Racism crosses all lines of culture and languages. We have the racism of the same people within a country against one another. We have the racism of religion, of social economic status. We have the racism of perceived entitlement, gender and definitely color. The odd thing about race is color, it is the leading issue in racism as it cannot be hidden like country of origin, place of birth. We have in this country alone racism against whites, blacks, brown (so called ) yellows, couple that with religious, gender preference, gender and an assortment of other small factions. In other parts of the world there are caste systems, religious sects,economic divides and an all time favorite emigrant bias. It appears that racism is a driving factor in many problems and overshadows rational thinking in all parts of life.To paraphrase a well known statement “we all can’t just get along!”