Preventing Racism
Preventing Racism
The definition of racism is a belief that a race is “superior” over all other races. Since the dawn of time, racism has been present amongst man. When a group believes that they possess diverse traits others do not, they believe that makes them “superior”. The history of man is riddled with examples of races being persecuted because they were “substandard”. Racism must stop in order for society to move forward. Everyone must be treated equally and fairly, but how we accomplish this? The first step to stopping racism is to abolish stereotypes. When one sees another, he/she should be treated as an individual, not matter what their ethnicity is. There should be no negative connotation associated with someone’s race. Just because people have the same colour skin or beliefs does not mean they are all exactly the same. And just because you have different coloured skin and beliefs from another does that make you or the other “superior”. When you generalize people, you are classifying a group as the same, destroying any individuality. Another way to stop racism is to make religious holidays less bias. Why do the Christian holidays of Christmas and Easter require a day off but Eid and Diwali do not? Eid and Diwali are the most important holidays in the Muslim, Hindu and Sikh calendar, yet they do not warrant a day off. Students should not fall behind their studies just because they are celebrating their religion’s biggest holidays. It is extremely unfair that someone not of Christian faith must take a vacation day off work or fall behind in school in order to commemorate their religious holidays. People of any religion should be excused for their major holidays. In conclusion, to stop racism, we must first stop it internally. Hopefully, if we all take the steps to stop racism as one, we can win. In order to do this, we must be willing to make changes and adjustments to they way we think and do things. We should not see race or skin colour when
The definition of racism is a belief that a race is “superior” over all other races. Since the dawn of time, racism has been present amongst man. When a group believes that they possess diverse traits others do not, they believe that makes them “superior”. The history of man is riddled with examples of races being persecuted because they were “substandard”. Racism must stop in order for society to move forward. Everyone must be treated equally and fairly, but how we accomplish this? The first step to stopping racism is to abolish stereotypes. When one sees another, he/she should be treated as an individual, not matter what their ethnicity is. There should be no negative connotation associated with someone’s race. Just because people have the same colour skin or beliefs does not mean they are all exactly the same. And just because you have different coloured skin and beliefs from another does that make you or the other “superior”. When you generalize people, you are classifying a group as the same, destroying any individuality. Another way to stop racism is to make religious holidays less bias. Why do the Christian holidays of Christmas and Easter require a day off but Eid and Diwali do not? Eid and Diwali are the most important holidays in the Muslim, Hindu and Sikh calendar, yet they do not warrant a day off. Students should not fall behind their studies just because they are celebrating their religion’s biggest holidays. It is extremely unfair that someone not of Christian faith must take a vacation day off work or fall behind in school in order to commemorate their religious holidays. People of any religion should be excused for their major holidays. In conclusion, to stop racism, we must first stop it internally. Hopefully, if we all take the steps to stop racism as one, we can win. In order to do this, we must be willing to make changes and adjustments to they way we think and do things. We should not see race or skin colour when