Stereotypes That Lead To Racism

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“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than it’s opposite.” –Nelson Mandela. Nelson brings up a striking point in the topic that no one is born to hate people of another skin color. I agree along with Nelson Mandela because for years people have been teaching their children to either become like them or better than them that including their beliefs and views on certain things. Also another factor is having experience in where people act a certain way around or towards you to hate that specific way. Rumors are another key that lead to racism, …show more content…

Children always retain information like a sponge, so when watching parent’s body language, remarks, or saying toward a race will always reflect on them. They’ll believe through the teachings of their parents that their race is more superior to others just based off the color of their skin. They grow up believing that no matter how successful that person may be they will always be a wetback, chink, cracker, towelhead, or monkey in their eyes. For example, Lawrence Graham had submitted an article to the Washington post that explained that as he was raising his children to an elite standard of upbringing one day his son had experienced racism on the way to their dorm by two white males in a car. One of them had shouted “Are you the only nigger at Mellon Academy?” and he had become distraught because he couldn’t grasp the meaning as of to why they would say that to him. Racism isn’t something that people escape because of their upbringings to have an elite status and degrees, that is never the point of racism; it is supposed to make the race feel inferior compared to the other race. People who grew up to be in that ignorant state of mind only believes in their race being the master race. Racism is never limited to just white people; racism can come from Black, Asians, Hispanic, and all other minorities because it is the parents who raised them to be in that certain mind

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