Question

Racism is the holding of prejudicial attitudes and biases based on the perception of a person's skin color. What factors do you think influence the development of racist views?

Answer 1

Racism is the process where a person is made to feel bad about the skin they are wearing. They are undermined and degraded about something that was naturally given to them, and something that they cannot change. Though, there's not one factor that has given rise to racism, there are several factors. These are as follows:

• neighborhood: many of the attitudes that people have are because of the people they interact with. If the closest of a person's circle, their family and their friends express views that are racist, their attitudes are shaped in the person.
• preferences: while as children, people tend to spend time with someone that is similar to them. This tends to the sense of belonging that a person has and this gradually develops the thinking of in groups.
• stereotyping: since we tend to not mix with people of other culture, we tend to believe about their attributes all that is hearsay. This in turn develops and strengthens the stereotypes.
• external loci : as soon as something around us goes wrong, we tend to blame people different from us. Such that they are favored, they are taking our jobs. This idea of us and them is what has made racism what it is today.