Dehumanization Of Racism

In terms of racism throughout history we have encountered the beginning of racial destruction to an almost transition toward peace toward the middle, then yet again back to destruction and into today a continuation of progressive acceptance. Well how so? In an effort to develop an understanding of the world around us, the mind has down us a favor by simply placing stimuli (in this case people) into concepts or mental categories, essentially we already have racial groups categorized into our minds without much thought or knowledge of so. Through these concepts we can easily hold and save our generalizations of the stimuli in place to almost organize the matter, and again create an easy sometimes maybe even wrong understanding of what is around …show more content…
The first reason is that concepts allow us to generalize. When we are introduced to someone no matter the skin tone, we form a generalization of who they are or what they 're made up of. Now imagine white children when they were introduced to people of another skin tone by higher authority along with the immediate given impression of someone non worthy of a life of their own.. someone only worthy of a ground to feed off of, they are immediately introduced to the generalization of someone simply worth being dehumanized. So when these white kids grow up they start to see every person of another race like this, and it carries on from offspring to offspring. The second reason is that concepts allow us to associate experiences and objects. So growing up seeing someone being used as a slave it just becomes the natural thing to see, to see a black person and to associate it with slavery and dehumanization. The third reason is that concepts aid memory, in terms of racism this is hard to put together, but i believe we have had people become so fixated on seeing someone in the past in one situation (like seeing a black person beat or abused) that that memory just seems right, since it was done by multiple people to multiple other people. The fourth and final reason is that concepts tells us how to react, in this case to people not of their race, when these white people saw or were around another person of their skin tone, they knew to give respect. However seeing or being around someone not of their own and having associated previous concepts they know to act in a manner that humiliates or disrespects