Racism : An Evil Degrading The World's Credibility & Growth. Let's Understand The Factors Contributing To It ..!!

As human beings, we are prone to discrimination or inferiority from others. We can see many examples of discrimination all around us. People might be discriminated for a lot of things like color, education, status, mental well-being, societal contribution and skills. Now, comes the Racism part which is actually a kind of major thing than discrimination. 

Let's understand the concept of Racism in Details:

What is Racism ?

As per Google, Racism means a discrimination and prejudice towards some people based on their race or ethnicity. 

Simply speaking, when a person gets discriminated solely on the basis of his color, race, ethnicity or culture, we could say he get victimized of Racism. 

Racism has its roots deep in our society. It has been existing since the ages and after the advent of technology and modernization, Racism is still flourishing silently but substantially. 

Last I heard, KKK (Ku Klux Klan) leader Chris Baker threatened to 'burn' black latina Journalist during an interview by called her a 'n*****'. This is very disappointing news for all those people who call this World free from discrimination and Racism. Chris Baker also called that journalist to get out of his country and go back to her native homeland. 

This news went viral and Chris Baker suffered a lot of criticism for this but whats done is done. 

Abusing a person in front of an enormous audience by calling him/her with a bad word is really out of line and a legal action has to be processed against this type of acts.

What encourage People to become a Racist?

There are several reasons to it but I am explaining some of crucial reasons behind racism:

Human Loves People Who're Like Them

Humans have a tendency to love only themselves or their loved ones or the people with same features or characterstics as they have. We don't normally prefer people with completely parallel characterstics than we have. Be it the skin color, the way people speak, the country they belong to, their habits, their ethnicity and their life style. We normally try to find people like us and try to ignore others. By doing this, we subconsciously develop a habit of racism in ourselves which grows strong with time.

Fear Of Replacement

Deep in our minds, we have a fear of getting replaced by people who're better than us. Racism is just an extension of that feeling. When someone belong to another class, race, country or skills enters into our life and affects us anyhow, immediately we develop a feeling of fear of replacement. Our mind is designed to protect our status, self-worth, respect at any cost. So, we generally see that person as a threat to our race, status or ethnicity. That ignites a sensation in our mind which could be named as Racism. 

Lack Of Self-Love and Self-Respect

A study proves that people who are victims 0f lack of self-love and respect tend to be more racist towards others. They see everyone was their competition and out of that fear, they develop a sensation of Racism in their mind. If a person remains happy, understands the value of life, then he would definitely see others as valuable as he consider himself. He'll respect everyone just the same. But people who are suffering from lack of self-confidence consider themselves as failure which force them to see others with discrimination. They fear others to get ahead of them proving them a failure. This is also a reason which contributes greatly for the widespread of Racism.

Racism is a mentality rather than a social Problem. We can correct it with less efforts if we can change our thinking and set out mentality right. All people are made same by the Almighty. If we consider someone lower than ourselves then it's we who are sick and needs proper mental counselling. 

Educate people about this mentality change and that day will not be far when we could say that World has become free from Racism and a better World is coming into existence where all the People are equal, at least from the point of view of Color, Ethnicity and Race.

Thank you for reading ..!!

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