Amna Al Hassen

200804582 – Group No. 115

3/05/2010
Effects of racism

Have you ever thought if racism still exists? And how does it

affect us in our daily life? Racism sometimes is caused by thoughts

of people, their culture and it can be inherited in their genes. There are many

types of racism such as stereotypes, gender discrimination, age discrimination,

religion discrimination and racial discrimination. These different types of racism have

affected us in many different ways, affected our society, behavior and somehow

affected our culture and religion. These discriminations had come to us through

different interventions from our outer world.

First, talking about gender discrimination, what is gender discrimination? And

how does it affect us, our culture? The term Gender determines the different sexes

where it is either male or female but nowadays, it is mainly called as the unfair

discrimination between the sexes, where robbing some rights and duties of the

counterattack sex which could be either male or female. Taking an example in the

daily life of a male and female working in a company, some people in our time do

not accept that a woman could be a man’s boss or if a husband do not accept that his

wife has higher status or degree. Another difference is that some of the cultures forbid

women from their freedom and do not give them their rights. In other words they

prefer her to stay at home and raise her children rather than work now this is what is

called robbing a woman's right from being simple human and work as any other

human being such as males.

Another type of discrimination which is racial discrimination that is when a

group of people treats others differently through a process of social divisions based on

their skin color (black or white) and nationality. This could affect their social life
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when people differentiate between black and white and different nationalities.

Moreover is when people have many effects on black people in their schools and

workplaces. Long time ago, in America, white people used to keep black people to

stay at the end of the bus because of their skin color.

Last but not least is the stereotype. Stereotyping is when our mind stereotypes

people according to their appearance, skin color, nationality and their value. You

cannot think that all black people are murderers, or all the gulf people are rich, or

Indians are poor. Stereotype might not give people their rights, value and it might not

let them get what they deserve and as they said “you can’t judge a book from its

cover”.

Different types of racism have too many effects which leads people to think in

a negative way in which they give an inevitable opinion on people they have never

meet nor know in person. Racism should stop today and as soon as possible. Now

maybe this would be hard for some people because they already have all the negative

thoughts in their mind, at least they have to control what goes in their mind and

change it.