Racism

2 Pages 501 Words

PERSUASIVE WRITING

Topic: Racism


The basis of all racism is ignorance and ignorance knows no country or colour. Is it possible that outward appearance or “ looks” are what we judge people by?
The evolved, apparently modern and superior Western world is actually backward and primitive; how could intellectual, profound, clever people discriminate and categorize others by beliefs, physical aspects, nationalities or sex ?
Remember the holocaust.
Take a moment to reflect on how many people were killed, a whole society demolished, and who authorized it ? Who tried to stop it ? How many people rebelled ? How many had the guts to risk their own lives in order to save a population ? Very few.
The evolution of our world has caused us to become spoilt, unappreciative and selfish, our main priority is personal privileges and profits: anything or anyone who is different from us, unfamiliar, is considered wrong, unacceptable “ less worthy”.
What kind of social philosophy is that ? Unfortunately one that dominates the Western world and causes people to live in harsh, depressing and completely unfair conditions with limited possibilities of succeeding in life, simply because the so called cultured society decided that they don’t fit into the restricted categories of idealistic perfection which in fact, ironically enough we ourselves don’t belong to either.
Racism is reinforced and perpetuated through the media in subliminal ways: lyrics of songs, poems, movies, literature, these are all means of communication which influence the public and fortify negative thought patterns by glorifying racist behaviour.
Racism has been alive throughout our history from the Ku- Klux clan in the 1900’s who persecuted and murdered blacks and Catholics, to slavery, right up to present day with conflicts between different beliefs.
After the tragedy on September 11th that occurred in America but effected the soul of the entire world, and left...