What is Racism?

... Racism Coursework - Religious Education What is Racism? Racism is thinking you're better than other races. It is prejudice when a person treats someone as an inferior because they have a different skin colour, culture, religion or nationality. It can be physically attacking people and giving them verbal abuse or even turning them down for jobs purely based on the features above and this is illegal. The definition of Racism from the Pocket Oxford Collins dictionary states: "Racism is defined as the hatred, rivalry or bad feeling between races". The dictionary then says that racism is "the belief in the inherent superiority". The oxford mini-dictionary states that racism is "belief in the superiority of a particular race; antagonism between races; the theory that human abilities are determined by race". This is a very clear description of racism and shows how many different forms it takes. Basically Racism is the prejudice and persecution of different ethnic

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