Innledning
Racism is one of the biggest social problems in the West today. Every day, even right now, people get harrassed, beaten and killed because of the color of their skin. But has it always been this way? Is racism an evil we never will get rid of? And what is racism?
If you look up the word ´racism´ in a dictionary, you will probably find something similar to the following entry: ”Discrimination or prejudice based on race.”
This short explanation suits well with my(and most others) definition, but it is important to remember that you can find many forms of racism, and the degree of racism varies.
Utdrag
While it was possible to convert from the Mosaic faith in the Middle Ages, it was impossible to convert from the inheritaged ethnicity as a Jew in Nazi-Germany. It was enough to have a Jewish grandfather to get gassed by the Nazis.
It is the idea that people are different based on inherited qualities that distinguishes modern racism. Scientifically that is a false idea.
There are far more genetical dissimilarities between individuals within an ethnic group than it is between races.
But an ideology doesn’t have to be logical to be strong. The idea that some were naturally superior – that there was a hierarchy of different races – arose as a justification of one of a few parts of history that can challenge Holocaust when it comes to Mankind’s cruelty against Mankind: the slavery.
Six million africans were kidnapped and put to slavery in America throughout the 18th century. Numerous more millions were to follow, until slavery was abolished in 1860.
It wasn’t just the planters who profited on the enslavement. The slavery in the southern states of USA and the Caribbean islands played a central part in building the capitalist system internationally.
The textile factories in Northern England was dependent on cotton from the plantations.
A city like Glascow was built on freight of slaves to America and import of tobacco, which was brought back with the same ships.
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