What is racism? This is a complex of a number of teachings, the main kernel of which is the provision on the mental, physiological and cultural inferiority of certain races. These teachings are based on the different anthropological structure of people, their genotype and biometric indicators.
Racism is the belief that people can be divided into higher and lower races. In many countries, all manifestations of racism are criminally punishable, but this does not help to completely solve the problem of the oppression of some races and nationalities by others. The problem of racism is multifaceted. It can be viewed from several angles.
- Racism is a manifestation of the political interest of individuals or entire states.
- Racism is an excuse for armed invasions on the territory of other states.
Racism can be:
- social, manifested in an attempt to establish the dominance of one group of people over others, not similar in skin color, place of birth, anthropometric data, etc.
- psychological, when, based on some psychoanalytic theories, attempts are made to substantiate the reasons for superiority over an individual. In any case, racism is the desire to belittle or destroy the dignity of a person or group of people, to deprive them of many rights and freedoms.
History of racism
In the Middle Ages, in the era of slavery, during the accumulation of initial capital and the flourishing of capitalism, when more and more colonies were seized, the teachings of the racists served as an excuse for class inequality (rich-poor, noble-black). They justified the subjugation and extermination of peoples in colonized countries. Aborigines of America, Australia, Oceania, Africa, and other countries were destroyed under the flag of racism.
Racism is a desire not only to conquer and conquer peoples, but a desire to inspire them with contempt for their own history, culture, thereby depriving them of their will to resist. The moral destruction of an ethnic group or nation is one of the sides of racist theories.
The problem of racism is common to many states and it manifested itself in different historical eras. The most striking examples are: the extermination of the Indians, the theory of the superiority of the Japanese over the rest of the peoples of the earth, the ideology of gentry Poland, the desire of Finnish reactionaries to create "Great Finland" in the territory from the Urals to Scandinavia, etc.
Racism today
The danger of racism lies in the fact that it poses a real threat to peace, infringes and violates human rights. Unfortunately, today racism in various appearances flourishes in many countries, despite the opposition of state structures. In Russia, they are neo-Nazis, in the USA - “Aryan Nations”, “White American Knights”, the National Socialist Movement, in Japan - nationalists who consider all non-Japanese to be “vile thieves”.
The causes of racism
- Biological. Some scholars of racial theories believe that racism is a normal biological phenomenon that has arisen against the background of the desire of biological species to preserve their uniqueness.
- Social: the influx of foreign labor and the impoverishment of the layers of society are a breeding ground for xenophobes and racists.
