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racism is one of its varieties, has special personal touches, which in the context are composed
in a whole world view and effective ideology. There is a time of political and diplomatic
etiquette and racial equivalent, where racism considers as a breach of human rights. It is
“Racism result from the transformation of race prejudice and ethnocentrism through
the exercise of power against a racial group defined as inferior, by individuals and institutions
Racism today is not a global discrimination, but in some groups we still can meet
blazes of racism. The dissociation groups from each other, is definitely not superiority one
and inferiority other. However hostility and sometimes fear of the foreigners, xenophobia,
population and even acts of terrorism all of those are presents modern racism.
It takes the roots from the very important and basic human demand in collective
solidarity. Community allows man feels accessory to collecting ideology and significance.
Fear of isolation from the community and relative weakness of moral principles easily makes
person to agree with majority opinion. “The group of individuals, who came together as a
part of collective identity, act not simply as individuals but as historic and social human
Racism was always an effective tool in politic. This is stimulated by ideological basis
of national competition between nations. Racial prejudices and stereotypes begin with
generalization types of people and from one race or ethnic group. Those stereotypes were
always used and in political aims. The instigators use terms general enemy and pressing on
patriotism. This is one of a concept of political strategy and people always marionettes in
government`s hands.
One perfectly planed political movement, that united millions of people to reach the
aim to be an Aryan race, was Nazism. It is was not a new ideology and took most of those
concepts from “anti-Semitism, racial theories, and eugenics and course of racist social
Darwinist notion” (Lang 68). Hitler was a great orator and thru propaganda and fear convert
people into this ideology. Nazi ideology is a spirit of implicit obedience to leader, hatred to
the minorities, desire of conquest and domination, glorifying German race - had an enormous
emotional attractiveness people (Knowles 25). Those factors converted them into the ardent
In Germany now Nazism lost its power and not considers as a proud memory. There is
rare occasion when you will see someone, who cares portrait of Hitler, or who stitches
emblem with swastika to the sleeve, or vandalizes the Jewish cemeteries. Ironically you may
meet it in Russia. One backwash of old ideological institutions that destabilize modern
society is a youth groups, such as Skinheads. The same images with the shaven heads,
identical black jeans and camouflage jackets and army boots, chose skinheads for their
After the crash of Soviet Union Russian people felt lost in terms of political, social
and ethnic identity. After many years of tyranny politic people get freedom for self-
expression and national identity, but they did not know how to use it properly. In soviet
society, man was a citizen of one of soviet republic, there was no questions about nationality.
The anti Caucasian and Islamic racist politic had a destructive influence on the world
view of people. First skinheads appeared in England in 60th years and have had nothing
common with modern skinheads groups who consider as hooligan, racist and vandal.
Skinheads were subculture of working class in Britain that organized youth groups to protest
against an official bourgeoisie and against a cont culture of 60th (Brown 2). Skinhead
despised the betrayers of their class. At the end of 70th neo fascists activated in the Great
Britain. National front and politic changes “produced a crisis of identity in the skinhead
scene” (Brown 2). Skinheads arranged streets processions and attacked Asians, Africans, any
In Russia skinheads appeared at the beginning of 90th. These first skins were the
product of juvenile application imitated of western standards. On the rapid growth skinheads
streets that obviously had racist character. Thousands of people mainly with an not Slavic
Two factors created a base for hasty growth and claim skinheads in Russia: economic
crisis and disintegration of education system. During the last decades of reforms a new
generation had been grown cruel and brutal. For this generation character a complete break is
addiction, alcoholism, prostitution. In this sphere creates huge amount of microscopic youth
bands which grew often into the bands of skinheads and each band is aimed against strangers.
“Our struggles against racism are like our struggles against sin- racism will be with us
for as long as we are human alive” (Snowden 1). Racism did not disappear thru history it lead
every nation and every person, but in different proportions. Anti racial politic is needsto be
Works cited
Brown, Timothy S. Subcultures, Pop Music and Politics: Skinheads and “Nazi Rock” in England
and Germany, Journal of Social History, 2004, Volume 38, Nr. 1
Knowles Carline. Race and social analysis. London. Sage publications. 2003
Browser, Benjamin P. Racism and anti racism in world perspective. Thousand Oaks, Calofornia. Sage
publications 1995
Ofer, Dalia. Nazi Anti-Semitism and “Science of Race”.. Oxford Rowman &Littlefield Publisher Inc.
Edited by Berel Lang 2000