is racism still an issue?

[joniboini]

he quickly dragged the boy away and warned him seriously never to smile back at any black man because they were all gangsters and they’d hurt him, which was vividly a very wrong message. Kids tend to grow up with whatever message the parents pass to them and should the little guy grow up with such message, it’ll definitely affect him negatively on his interaction with black people.

That's quite extreme, but I'm wondering if their environment affects this. For example, what if the mother got attacked or something in the past, hence why she distrust people without valid reasons? In my place, I can find similar examples where people have bias against other races or social standing. It's hard to change that unless we have enough people influential enough to do a cultural revolution or something similar.

A top-down solution might speed up this process but it's hard to do so because social media is such a huge echo-chamber nowadays.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

That's quite extreme, but I'm wondering if their environment affects this. For example, what if the mother got attacked or something in the past, hence why she distrust people without valid reasons? In my place, I can find similar examples where people have bias against other races or social standing. It's hard to change that unless we have enough people influential enough to do a cultural revolution or something similar.

A top-down solution might speed up this process but it's hard to do so because social media is such a huge echo-chamber nowadays.

I get your point, but even if she’s had an awful encounter with a person from a race in the past, I still do not believe it’s enough to justify her actions or validate her feelings about the whole race, I just believe this was the message she received from her childhood, maybe through things she’s seen or been told that has influenced her behaviour to the extent of passing the message across to her children.
It’s such a shame that people often blame or generalize the sins or shortcomings of one man to his entire race even when it has been proven on multiple occasions that every man is responsible for their actions and behaviours.

[MUGNIA]

in my country people are loyal to each other. Regardless of religion and color. I think that racism is in the past

Luckily, there are no racists in your country anymore, because it is impossible for racism to disappear in a country, where currently this problem is getting worse, plus bullying, it is complete if someone has become a victim of this, life will be depressed forever if they do not try to get out of this unhealthy environment.

[joniboini]

It’s such a shame that people often blame or generalize the sins or shortcomings of one man to his entire race even when it has been proven on multiple occasions that every man is responsible for their actions and behaviours.

I share the same view. On the other hand, I understand that people build their own prejudice based on their experiences. Sometimes they don't even realize it because it comes from their subconsciousness. They'll need another experience similar to the one that affected them in the past to counter it, which is hard to come by since they tend to avoid them in the first place. Not everyone has the time to analyze people based on their actions, so they resort to quick generalization. Hopefully, things will change and more people will realize that doing so will damage their community in the end. CMIIW.

[philipma1957]

i only feel pity for humanity when i read reports on such things

Racism is one thing that is still an issues as can be seen in sports and entertainment the fact of the matter is that society is still divided under the influence of racial lines they only thing is the world is only pretending to be one  there still exist a deep racial segregation that ongoing, the way and manner people reacts to each other is still under racism and from the international view we still have racism existing infact it is when you go out of your country and gets to the airport of countries that is when you will know that racism is still existing especially Africans traveling out some times they will be delayed in the airport for hours in the name of clearance

yeah there certainly is anti black racism in the usa.

but we in the usa now have anti chinese
and anti south american


today as i type trumpeter has captured around 1000 illegal aliens and is deporting them.

so if you look south american ie brown man you are suffering from intensive pressure.

it is unfortunate that the world does this.

does not seem like it will stop any time soon.

[PX-Z]

Yes, it’s all over the internet and especially common in my local area, a third-world country, particularly among children. They’re constantly talking, often discriminating against their peers—it’s even worse when you hear it firsthand. But at the end of the day, they’re still kids, and there’s hope they can learn from these mistakes and improve in the future.

[philipma1957]

Yes, it’s all over the internet and especially common in my local area, a third-world country, particularly among children. They’re constantly talking, often discriminating against their peers—it’s even worse when you hear it firsthand. But at the end of the day, they’re still kids, and there’s hope they can learn from these mistakes and improve in the future.

I am 68 in 2 days. Racism is not new to me. I have heard a lot of insults about all kinds of people. Being an Italian Norwegian American you would be surprised  that you can get racial insults. and ethnic insults  but you do. 

Half breed has been tossed at me.
Not really white (as I am Sicilian on the Italian side)  Particularly insulting as I am light brown hair and fairly light skinned so to hear whiter looking people tell me I am not white enough is weird .   

But obviously  others have heard worse depending on where they live and how different they are than the rest of the general area they live in.  I guess it is just something people do to each other.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

I share the same view. On the other hand, I understand that people build their own prejudice based on their experiences. Sometimes they don't even realize it because it comes from their subconsciousness. They'll need another experience similar to the one that affected them in the past to counter it, which is hard to come by since they tend to avoid them in the first place. Not everyone has the time to analyze people based on their actions, so they resort to quick generalization. Hopefully, things will change and more people will realize that doing so will damage their community in the end. CMIIW.

This makes so much sense.
Some experiences can really change one’s perspective and view about things even without them realizing it. For instance, there are women, due to previous experiences and encounter with men, believes or have this perspective that all men needs from women is sex and just have their way with them, and just like you rightly said, until a similar situation occurs that may likely counter that viewpoint and probably change it. This is exactly why it’s always good to do good in whatever situation one finds himself, because you might not be the only person taking the credit for that act but also your society, religion, race or even gender.

[philipma1957]

I share the same view. On the other hand, I understand that people build their own prejudice based on their experiences. Sometimes they don't even realize it because it comes from their subconsciousness. They'll need another experience similar to the one that affected them in the past to counter it, which is hard to come by since they tend to avoid them in the first place. Not everyone has the time to analyze people based on their actions, so they resort to quick generalization. Hopefully, things will change and more people will realize that doing so will damage their community in the end. CMIIW.

This makes so much sense.
Some experiences can really change one’s perspective and view about things even without them realizing it. For instance, there are women, due to previous experiences and encounter with men, believes or have this perspective that all men needs from women is sex and just have their way with them, and just like you rightly said, until a similar situation occurs that may likely counter that viewpoint and probably change it. This is exactly why it’s always good to do good in whatever situation one finds himself, because you might not be the only person taking the credit for that act but also your society, religion, race or even gender.

Yeah as an older person I sometimes get the "you are old and stupid look"  Pretty annoying when someone does that.
I understand why they do it as there are a lot of older slower stupid people so many younger people think all older people think this way.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Yeah as an older person I sometimes get the "you are old and stupid look"  Pretty annoying when someone does that.
I understand why they do it as there are a lot of older slower stupid people so many younger people think all older people think this way.

Haha, I totally understand what that feels like because I do get that too. The younger generation have this flawed mentality that older people think or act in an outdated manner and they know better, which is why they oftentimes tend to act on their own accord, regardless of how many times an elderly person attempts to correct and put them in order.