(January 13, 2018 at 1:25 pm)Mermaid Wrote: Why is anyone a racist?I think it starts at home, when the person is a kid. If your parents constantly tell you: see that black/brown/hispanic guy? He's bad and disgusting. Stay away. Then at that impressionable age you're probably gonna believe it. And some people never grow out of that.
For example: We're Indians. I know for a fact that most of us make derogatory jokes about the size of the eyes of south east asians. And it's not even seen as anything wrong. Talking about people of other races as being different from us, is where the trouble starts. That's a form of racism, I suppose, and it's just taken far too many steps further in some cases. Similarly, people can claim that they're not racist, but if they talk in a derogatory manner about other races in private, they may do that because that's how they've been brought up. A bit like religion, tbh. And that's just gonna be passed on to their kids.
If you're asking about why anyone became a racist in the first place, then that's far too rooted in history, I guess.
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