Ethics Of Racism

Ethics of Race

There is no country in the history of the world in which racism has had such an important role and for as long as in the United States. The problem of racial barrier or color line still exist. How did this begin? In the British colonies, slavery became quickly a stable institution, the normal working relationship between blacks and whites. Next to them is developed that feeling special racial - whether hatred, contempt, pity or paternalism- to accompany the bottom position of blacks in America during the 350 years following that combination of lower rank and pejorative thought that we call "racism".

Racism in the United States back to the dates XVI century, and despite the struggles, has not ceased to be something that continues

to be present in a part of the society. In the sixteenth century the indigenous people, mainly the smaller groups, were forced to abandon their cultures, languages and to perform forced labor. They were stripped of their parents and sold as slaves. In this state of submissiveness lived during decades; those who do not know the freedom, it is difficult to fight for it, and these people did not know another way of living, knew only be treated as animals subjected to a superior race and better than them.
In the United States no longer needed the white slaves from the XVII century, reserving the slavery to persons of African origin that, contrary to the whites, did not have the support of the religious and ethnic institutions of the dominant white society. From this moment, born the term race.
After independence (1776) Laws, 1790 U.S. ensured the citizenry to the "white people free", Caucasians.
After the Civil War (1861-1865) the southern states, resentful by its defeat, drafted a series of laws to discriminate men of color. This phenomenon is called euphemistically "reconstruction". As States could not eliminated the rights of blacks to be guaranteed by the Constitution, is used the term of segregation with the concept of separated but equal (separate but equal). The idea was that while the opportunities offered to both races were equal, segregation was legal. The segregation arises in the wake of the Jim Crow laws (1876).
In the United States had multiple tests of a segregation that was not applied in an official way but that existed and that only changed very slowly thanks to the work of Martin Luther King and other activists of the social rights. These are some of them: on the buses was prohibited for blacks occupy the front seats that were reserved for persons of the white race. Rosa Parks was arrested for occupying a seat and deny the site to a white, thus becoming one of the icons in the struggle for civil rights. Thus, would begin a boycott of the bus company led by Martin Luther King.
In 1955 a woman of color was imprisoned for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. These events occurred in the south of the United States and were the trigger for the consolidation of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The woman was called Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005), and thanks the protests that led to his imprisonment, the Supreme Court of the United States banned the practice of racial segregation on the buses.
Racism has become the banner of empires and peoples, which justify their anger against those who are "different".

The changes that we have recently experienced at the global level, this new era of globalization, has made the entire peoples relive the feelings of nationalism, unfortunately in a wrong way. Because of leaders with the coveted power, these feelings of nationalism have been conducted through the anger, hatred, intolerance, and violence.

Racism and racial discrimination is everything and any form that imposes the superiority or inferiority among ethnic groups to some the right to dominate or eliminate others, presumed to be inferior, or which bases value judgments on racial differentiation. In this way, the racist suppresses their civil rights, social, political and human rights. Racism is being advertised from almost the entire history of mankind.

Racial discrimination is a concept that is usually identified with the racism and that covers it, although it deals with concepts that do not match exactly. While racism is an ideology based on the superiority of certain races or ethnic groups on other, racial discrimination is an act which, although it is usually based on a racist ideology, not always is. In this regard, it should be borne in mind that the racial discrimination positive (when establishing discrimination in order to ensure the equality of persons affected), constitutes a form of discrimination aimed at combating

racism.
Racism is often closely related and is confused with xenophobia, that is to say, the "hatred, revulsion or hostility toward foreigners". However, there are some differences between the two concepts because racism is an ideology of superiority while xenophobia is a feeling of rejection; on the other hand, the xenophobia is directed only against foreigners, unlike the racism. Racism is also related to other concepts which sometimes is often confused, as ethnocentrism, caste systems (in the colonial age, to the majority, is classified in mestizos, sambos, mulattoes, etc.), the classism and even homophobia. The attitudes, values and systems, open or establish racist thinly, a hierarchical order among the ethnic or racial groups, used to justify the privileges or advantages that enjoy the dominant group.
For me, racism is a feeling or behavior which consists in the exacerbation of racial sense of an ethnic group. This situation tends to be in contempt of another group and represents a form of discrimination. Now, we can have a better perspective on because it is considered a form of discrimination and because today is very strongly criticized; however, there was a time in which racism is not punished, where being belonging to a race of color you to participate of the slavery. Our morality and way of seeing things have changed through the years but racism remains an ethical problem, where each part has its way of thinking.
After the Second World War, many philosophers came to consider that the scientific rebuttal of racist theories would be enough to defeat racism in the modern world. Racism would be something as well as a serious mistake. But there are still people who still believe the same with regard to racism because of their culture or education they received from children and unfortunately from their point of view are doing the right thing to discriminate against people for their color or race. On the basis of the subjectivism where the ethical subjectivism is the idea that our moral opinions are based on our feelings and nothing more. From this perspective, there is no objectively correct or incorrect. The people who are critical and attacking persons of other races is in the right thing because it is the basis of a moral code other than that of the majority of people in society, where it is established that just by being a different race to the white, you are considered less; in fact, you could never reach an agreement because each side of the problem thinks that it is correct, that is why according to the theory of subjectivist a mutual agreement will never come because each part has a different moral code.
Not only you can see this problem from the perspective subjectivity, we can also see and analyze in a manner utilitarian, which says that you always have to search for the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Based on the utilitarian history, the word discrimination should not even be in our dictionary. For example, in African countries would be affecting the majority of the population, going totally against this theory; however in other countries as in American people are white in its entirety but in reality people of color does not affect for nothing in the development of their culture so that the theory of utilitarianism, could not be used as simply a pretext, as Hitler did years ago to justify their huge massacres in order to improve to a race , which according to him ,was absolutely perfect.
I believe that racism is a controversial topic, great strides have been made to eliminated it, but I do not think that is a problem that can be eliminated, for being only one of the thousands of classifications that the human being created and continues to create; it is a problem that can be controlled with education and use common sense. I believe that one of the best ways to control this is by using the mass media, educating the population of each country by noting that the color of skin, that the distinctive stature of many cultures and many other traits are not real flags of a human being against another.
Many customs and cultural elements used and applied by those discriminated tend to be rejected by the global culture, and with disagreement with that some traditions must be forgotten, provided that damage to a human being physically or psychologically.

While other that differentiate a culture of another must be preserved at all costs, elements such as language, clothing, gastronomy, religion, arts and especially the identity of those who are part of it. Something that they are forced to leave to be able to integrate life in big cities or even within the same regions, so that each time it is less possible to observe persons fully proud of their origins, their culture and also proud to have the opportunity to transmit them, even in many cases to others who do not belong to the same

culture.
In conclusion, not only in the United States are many problems of discrimination if not in all around the world. We can mention that the United States has suffered from this problem of racism and social discrimination since their inception, which the affected actors are minority groups which have neither voice nor vote and lack of force as imposed the majority group that are whites, but the United States government has done everything possible to give importance and decrease or eliminate discrimination in your nation, through reforms and legislation that supports social equality, regardless of their gender, race and social status, but which the greater part of the society even with this continues to show a discrimination, racism and superiority complex toward Latinos, Blacks, and Asians. Still remains much to do in the field of social equality but is done as possible, since it is illogical to finish with a problem of hundreds of years since the beginning of the history of the United States, which could not be resolved to a short term and less if you do not have the support of the society and the government.