Racism is something we all have known it existence in this world. However, many of us did not take the initiative to end this problem. Race was something created socially and so racism itself is something created by society, primary definition of it is how people perceive ideas and the face we are not used to. Moreover, a common knowledge as a human being is that human fear things that were different from the usual and tend to have a hard time to deal with it, we’ve always fears of change what’s more to the unknown. This is why this problem is still growing and have not stop on its tracks, it is also a common issues to every country. Racism incidents happened everywhere even in Malaysia, some believes that the government is the main causes
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It influences people to become racist. For example, from the book “The Power of One” written by Bryce Courtenay shows a young white African boy who lives in a world revolves around racism, the boy grow up with black people and see them as family and did not discriminate them but when he enrolled into a boarding school that’s where the boy first experience the taste of racism where few black boy bullied him, but he did not see that as racism but just normal bullying because the boy had seen the good in different ethnicities. (Courtenay, 2005).As a child tend to follow how adults reacts and they would follow, For example, primary kids sometimes tease others race with what known to be small jokes among children, but the words they spoke are learned from the adults. The public itself sometimes doesn’t even realize what they did is feeding racism. For example, job vacancies papers that stick on walls or pole that mention Chinese only or certain races. Media sometimes also indirectly promote racism for example crime law movies shows white people as heroes while black people tend to be the antagonist of the show. Lastly, in my own opinion this problem isn’t just caused by the government alone but all of us public are responsible of it too. For example, teachers that are responsible for rising the next generation shouldn’t create a racist environment in the school. Therefore, both public and government are the causes to racism in the country. Personally, I don’t choose friend because of race which is why I have many friends from different races, and from what I have experience racism is still happening even in
It influences people to become racist. For example, from the book “The Power of One” written by Bryce Courtenay shows a young white African boy who lives in a world revolves around racism, the boy grow up with black people and see them as family and did not discriminate them but when he enrolled into a boarding school that’s where the boy first experience the taste of racism where few black boy bullied him, but he did not see that as racism but just normal bullying because the boy had seen the good in different ethnicities. (Courtenay, 2005).As a child tend to follow how adults reacts and they would follow, For example, primary kids sometimes tease others race with what known to be small jokes among children, but the words they spoke are learned from the adults. The public itself sometimes doesn’t even realize what they did is feeding racism. For example, job vacancies papers that stick on walls or pole that mention Chinese only or certain races. Media sometimes also indirectly promote racism for example crime law movies shows white people as heroes while black people tend to be the antagonist of the show. Lastly, in my own opinion this problem isn’t just caused by the government alone but all of us public are responsible of it too. For example, teachers that are responsible for rising the next generation shouldn’t create a racist environment in the school. Therefore, both public and government are the causes to racism in the country. Personally, I don’t choose friend because of race which is why I have many friends from different races, and from what I have experience racism is still happening even in