by Joseph Opare

Created on: May 13, 2007   Last Updated: May 21, 2007

They flood the nations looking for greener pastures, but are unwelcome by those filled with suspicions that they have come to steal their jobs and women. Others are full of disgust because of their apparent differences. Their arrival drives fear into the hearts and minds of those comfortably dwelling in ignorance of life in other nations.

Many of these immigrants find the culture in which they are presently engulfed, a threat to the continuation of their cultural heritage.

Migrants have always been the target of blame for those with racially prejudiced ideals when times become hard in the economic history of nations. When I speak of countries that treat immigrants badly, I speak in terms of several nations and not one in particular.

This fear of diversity has bred terror campaigns, genocide, hatred and war. The spawning ground for these imperfections in human actions has been an ignorant selfish mentality preyed upon by the spread of misinformation.

In Victorian England, a doctrine arose called The Origin of The Species (the theory of evolution), which was publicized by Sir Charles Darwin. This doctrine began an argument within the scientific community culminating in two schools of thought, one called monogenism and the other polygenism. Monogenism taught that all men evolved from one source, whilst the polygenism taught that different races evolved from different sources and therefore were at different stages of evolutionary development.1 Darwin's Theory never taught racism, but it was used as an excuse for it. Men such as Adolph Hitler used a form of teaching called fascism during his rise to power which incorporated the teachings of Eleanor Blavatski called Theosophy (which held to occultism and Aryanism) and the erroneous scientific viewpoint of polygenism.

"Biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1859, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory." 2 (Stephen Jay Gould)

In my time I have heard some of the most ridiculous things said about other ethnic groups. As a child I witnessed skinheads chase, beat up and spit on Asians. I lived in walking distance to the National Front Headquarters (a British racist political party). You had to be tough going to school in those days because you had to deal with people calling you nasty names and wanting to fight you. Even some of the West Indian people I new were confused and despised Africans.

The form of racism in some nations today is institutional. I can

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