LETS SAY NO TO RACISM

WHAT IS RACISM?
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.

Presently, the world is outside down because of this menace. it has led to segregation, killing, hatred, strive, kidnapping, isolation, discrination.Sincerely speaking things have fallen apart!
THE INTERNET AND RACISM
And while the World Wide Web is a great proponent for the ideals of free speech, it can also be a breeding ground harboring hatred . This is very serious as the number of hate sites that have sprung up in the recent years is shocking and also increasing at an alarming rate.

There has been much talk of Internet sites hosting hate material. Some groups such as
HateWatch have gone as far as buying racist domain names so that real racists cannot buy these domains themselves!

For more about the Internet and free speech, check out this site’s section on human rights and the Internet . It has some useful links to additional sites and material.

GLOBALIZATION AND RACISM
As globalization in its current form expands, so too does the inequality that accompanies it, as discussed throughout the Trade, Economy, & Related Issues section on this web site. Rising inequality can result in an increase in racial bias for scapegoating or advancing xenophobic and isolationist tendencies.

During French and British Imperial days for example, racial bias was ingrained within the culture itself (as explored in great detail by Edward Said, in his books such as Orientalism (Vintage Books, 1979) and Culture & Imperialism (Vintage Books, 1993)). However, an element of this is also seen in today’s period of globalization, with what A. Sivanandan describes as the increasing “xenophobic culture of globalisation” seen in some parts of the
world:
With expanding globalization, the demands for more skilled workers, especially in North America, Europe and elsewhere (while they cut back on education spending themselves, little by little), has led to increased efforts to attract foreign workers — but filtered, based on skill. At the same time, this increases resentment by those in those nations who are not benefitting from globalization.
Additionally, those trying to escape authoritarian regimes etc are finding it harder and harder to get into these countries, due to tighter immigration policies. Hence it is harder to immigrate to the wealthier nations unless, says Liz Fekete, “these citizens are part of the chosen few: highly-skilled computer wizards, doctors and nurses trained at Third World expense and sought after by the West. Global migration management strategy saps the Third World and the former Soviet bloc of its economic lifeblood, by creaming off their most skilled and educated workforces.” From the perspective of globalization, Liz continues, “the skills pool, not the genes pool, is key.”
Immigrants face numerous criticisms and challenges; It is difficult enough often, to get into another nation as mentioned above. If one succeeds, then additional struggles (some to naturally be expected, of course) are faced:
Living in a new country can be daunting, especially when the cultural differences are great.

As a result it can be expected that an immigrant would try to maintain some semblance of their own culture in their new country of stay.
Or, due to fears of racism or due to the culture shock it would be expected that immigrant communities would form as a way to deal with this and as a means to help each other through.
By doing this, sometimes they face criticism of not integrating and of “sticking with their own kind”;
Yet, on the other hand, if they do integrate in some way, they face critique from certain types of environmentalists and others of contributing to environmental degradation by increasing their consumption to the high levels typical of the host nation.

That is, if the host nation had different modes of consumptions, immigrants would likely follow those too.
Hence,

For more about these issues of resource consumption, blaming the poor and immigrants etc, see this web site’s section debating population and consumption issues.
UN’s World Conference on Racism, 2001
A UN Global Conference to discuss racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance was held from 31st August to 7 September 2001.
While it was brave enough for the United Nations to attempt to hold such a meeting, it proved to be a heated challenge. While all nations are good at being critical of others (and often very accurately, although often not!), when it comes to one’s own criticisms, most would be uncomfortable to say the least. As an example:
United States and Europe were against effective discussions of slavery reparations (and sent in only low-level delegates — a possible sign on how they really feel about this conference.

Israel and United States were against discussing the possibility that Zionism is racist against Palestinians, causing both to walk out of the conference altogether
India was against including discussions about caste-based discrimination
Some Arab nations were against discussions on oppression of Kurds or Arab slave trade
etc.
A watered down declaration was eventually made.
Such an eventful week shows how far we all have to go! It is also a detailed issue, and the following links may provide more detailsIssues  Racism

Debates over the origins of racism often suffer from a lack of clarity over the term. Many conflate recent forms of racism with earlier forms of ethnic and national conflict. In most cases ethno-national conflict seems to owe to conflict over land and strategic resources. In some cases ethnicity and nationalism were harnessed to wars between great religious empires (for example, the Muslim Turks and the Catholic Austro-Hungarians). As Benedict Anderson has suggested in

Imagined Communities , ethnic identity and ethno-nationalism became a source of conflict within such empires with the rise of print-capitalism.
In its modern form, racism evolved in tandem with European exploration and conquest of much of the rest of the world, and especially after Christopher Columbus reached the Americas. As new peoples were encountered, fought, and ultimately subdued, theories about “race” began to develop, and these helped many to justify the differences in position and treatment of people whom they categorized as belonging to different races (see Eric Wolf’s
Europe and the People Without History).
Another possible source of racism is the misunderstanding of Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution. Some took Darwin’s theories to imply that since some “races” were more civilized, there must be a biological basis for the difference.

At the same time they appealed to biological theories of moral and intellectual traits to justify racial oppression. There is a great deal of controversy about race and intelligence, in part because the concepts of both race and IQ are themselves controversial.
— Racism , Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, May 1, 2004 “
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In 1987, a sensational “discovery” was made by a Sydney University team, led by Australia’s most celebrated pre-historian, Professor D J Mulvaney. They reported that the Australian population in
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[Elements of anti-Obama opposition] include ultra-conservative Republicans of both the Pat Buchanan and free market variety; anti-tax Tea Party libertarians from the Ron Paul camp; Christian right activists intent on re-molding the country into their kind of Kingdom; birth certificate conspiracy theorists, anti-immigrant nativists of the armed Minuteman and the policy wonk variety; third party
“constitutionalists”; and white nationalists of both the citizens councils and the Stormfront national socialist variety.

— Bill Berkowitz, US: White Supremacists Crash Anti-Obama Tea Party , Inter Press Service, December 22, 2009 “
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Racism has always been both an instrument of discrimination and a tool of exploitation. But it manifests itself as a cultural phenomenon, susceptible to cultural solutions, such as multicultural education and the promotion of ethnic identities.

Tackling the problem of cultural inequality, however, does not by itself redress the problem of economic inequality. Racism is conditioned by economic imperatives, but negotiated through culture: religion, literature, art, science and the media.

... Once, they demonised the blacks to justify slavery. Then they demonised the “coloureds” to justify colonialism. Today, they demonise asylum seekers to justify the ways of globalism. And, in the age of the media, of spin, demonisation sets out the parameters of popular culture within which such exclusion finds its own rationale — usually under the guise of xenophobia, the fear of strangers.

WHAT CAN BE NOTED FROM THIS POST?
Lets note that love is one powerful and quickest catalyst that we as individuals can use to derive a product called,.,. YES WE CAN. Lets stop the fight and lets make things right. And again still hear that voice saying*YES WE CAN.