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What Is Racism?

What Is Racism?. Chapter 6. Some Background. Any of us, if born in another culture, would learn and follow the basic beliefs and values of that culture, and develop the necessary personality traits. “Mzungu”

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What Is Racism?

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  1. What Is Racism? Chapter 6

  2. Some Background Any of us, if born in another culture, would learn and follow the basic beliefs and values of that culture, and develop the necessary personality traits. “Mzungu” If your culture believed that people with blue eyes were poor at Math, blue eyed people would probably be treated as if they couldn’t learn Math. It is likely that many of them would come to believe this opinion and only develop basic skills. Their weakness in math would not be caused by their common inherited trait (blue eyes) but by the beliefs of their culture.

  3. Terms To Know Stereotype: The view that all members of a group are the same – rather than individuals with differing abilities, personalities, and values. Prejudice: A view based on previously held ideas, and not on knowledge or experience. Discriminate: Treat unfairly. Racism: The belief that a person’s abilities, personality, and values are influenced by race, color, or ethnic origin.

  4. Canada’s Immigration Policy Page 87 of your book. #1 and 2. Page 88 #2 and 5

  5. “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 its opposite.” –Nelson Mandela-

  6. Insult Yourself… Sometimes, depending on what mainstream culture you live in or are a part of, it is often difficult to look at yourself “in a mirror” and discover that you, too, are a human on Earth and that you, too, are different. This activity is focusing on YOU. Privately, you must try to think up all the insults and terms that would be used by someone, somewhere else in the world, to describe you. Be honest with yourself. This is to be done silently and not shared with anyone else. How would someone in India see you? Australia? France? Quebec? Cape Breton? Downtown Halifax?

  7. “Casual” Speaking IGNORANCE means that you do not understand something, and NAIVETY means “lacking worldly experience and understanding.” These are not EXCUSES. “I didn’t know”, “I didn’t mean it”, “It wasn’t directed at anybody”, “It was only a joke”, “Everyone else is doing it”, etc. “I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.” –Muhammad Ali-

  8. Thinking Outside The Box http://examples.yourdictionary.com/stereotype-examples.html List some stereotypes, prejudice, racist, sexist, or homophobic phrases and “misconceptions” that you have heard in your life either from the media, or first hand. What was the root of these misconceptions and insults? History? Jokes? Ignorance? What sort of person is a racist? You are an individual and that is the bottom line. We all have preconceived ideas of certain things, “perspectives”, because of how we were socialized. What are at least five things you can do as an individual to help broaden your understanding of this topic? What’s something you can do in the next week? The next six months? The next year? Ten years from now?

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