Friday, October 19, 2007

Racial Discrimination

Most of people think that racial discrimination problem was topical in the past but it is not true. There are still countries which discriminate people who are different race so it means that this problem still exists.

As ideology racism existed during the 19th century. It was attempted to provide a racial classification of humanity. Racial discrimination was especially topical during
World War II and the Holocaust.

There are even some types of discrimination, for example, institutional racism or state racism, economical racism and etc. I think most important for us is institutional racism because each of us can suffer from it. So institutional racism is racial discrimination by government, corporations, educational institutions or other organizations which have power to affect people. Economical racism is caused by education or parent's generation.

The first declaration against racial discrimination was created in the 18th century in the United States. It was in the United States Declaration of Independency. In 2000, the European Union banned racism along with other forms of discrimination such as genetic features, religion or belief, age, sexual orientation and etc.

Researchers say that racial discrimination problem is widespread especially in the
United States. Usually discrimination there is in the workplace against job applicants whose names sounds as "black people" name.

In conclusion, racial discrimination as shows many researches and history is very old problem which is still not resolved, despite the fact that this problem was topical a lot of centuries. It shows how deep this problem is and how it is difficult to resolve it.

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