The Role Of Racism In The Modern World

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Racism is usually defined as any form of discrimination that is based on either race, nationality, cultural contextual, or ethnicity. It is evident that its existence in the modern world is caused by imbalance whereby a certain group of people or community controls other groups in different ways that can be in accidental form or intended form. Racism is brought about and fueled by histories, culture, social, and disparities in within a society. Factually, racism in Australia and other countries in the Western world was formerly accepted and supported and presented by the government. It used to be of different forms such as rejection of minority groups. However such an old fashioned of racism has gradually changed to the modern form of racism.

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