by Daniel Creil

Created on: December 09, 2008

"I don't like and don't want to speak with you, I won't give you a job or treat you equally as I treat other human beings because you have black color of skin but I have white".

If someone says something like this, we will say that he is a racist and has a narrow perception of the world.

Because of the size of our earth and its wide range of environmental characteristics, people have adopted some mental and physical characteristics that have helped them to survive in that particular part of the globe and that environment. Because of this we are different, and we notice that people from China do not look the same like people from Africa, and people from Sweden do not look the same like people from Italy.

And this is a reason for racism to be born. Or maybe we are just trying to be ethnically aware?

Ethnicity and race are related terms and concepts although with a thin difference that we have to understand. Ethnos include in itself also religion, culture, ethics and morals, traditions and different language. People from the same race may differ within ethnos. For example race like Asian race include in itself ethnos like who speak in Chinese language, Japanese language or Russian language. Ethnos, even if they belong to the same race, do not always accept each other and actually do hate each other. Because their morals, religions, cultural differences are unacceptable for others.

What is racism then? Racism is when we don't accept people who have different physical appearances. We often say something like: "Go back where you belong to be in", but we say such word not only to people who differ from us because of race, but we say such words also to people who differ from us because of their ethnical identity. Do I have to mention what happened with Jews (ethnos) in Europe
at the time of World War II? Jews were killed not because they came from other part of the world and were from different race, but because of their ethnical identity that the governing power disliked. Or found to be enough good reason that might justify the massive killing.

Does nowadays something like this happen? Yes. Some brutal attacks are made to both: people who are from different race and to people that are from different ethnos.

Is it normal thing to do: keep distance from people because they are different than you? No. Because the main concept of humans sounds like: "I am you and you are me". Let's take in an example me and my neighbor. We both are from the same race and we belong to the same race, but still we are different: he is `he` and I am `me`, he works a part time job and I work a full time job, he is older and I am younger, he cant sing but I can. But after all: we both are human beings.

So the conclusion might be as follows: we have more reasons to be aware from other people, not only because of the race or ethnical identity, but at the end we remain in the same box: in the box and a frame of humanity.

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