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I'm gonna try to xplain why people are racist, as someone who has been raised in such household, but actively silently denied it. It seems to be based on predjustices people had about people of different races based on their mere first impressions seeing them. Maybe something about their culture like "Eww those people have beads, ewww they have jewelry pushed through their skin!!!" *Also wears beads and piercings some years later* or maybe they do not find certain biological characteristics attractive and therefore just selfishly decide all of these people are bad. Or maybe they've just been traditionally taught racism over the years in their family and cling close to that. None of those are valid or rational but that's as far as I can try to understand what all those selfish people reason their wrongdoings with. |
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People are "scared" or dislike what's different from them and what they are not used to. Not only in racism but also homophobia or simply judging people for looking or behaving differently. Broadening the mind, to educate yourself on "different" things and to learn that we're all the same in the end, is more difficult than to respond with repulse and hate, and people always go for the most easy and convenient way. Also people (and politics!!) love to find groups of people to make them the enemy and blame them for everything wrong, rather than finding true roots of problems and doing something against it. Also also we built a society with stupid rules you have to follow to be a normal and good citizien and also a picture of what's a good life, and "different" people don't fit into that picture and other cultures have other customs that don't align with the perfect white people behavior. These norms have become so important that it's only appropriate to be shocked about it. |
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