Tyler Ryan (FGCU) Racism

Racismmay be defined as the hatred of one person by another because of skin color, language, customs, place of birth or any other factor that reveals the basic nature of the person.(Vezyte) Racism is everywhere today especially after 9/11/01, ever since then I feel that racism towards anyone who even looks like they are from the middle east has skyrocketed. You see it everywhere, its in the airports, on the streets, in schools, and even in the workplace.

Where I come from, the dominant race is white, and there are a lot of people who are considered “racist”. I too have been placed into this category by my peers. I don’t consider myself to be racist, I just have my own opinions and feel that I am supposed to present my ethnicity and culture to its highest potential. People say that I am too close-minded and have no consideration for other people. The way I see it, if you are calling someone out for representing their ethnicity and their home country, then you are just as “racist” as the rest of us.

Whenever I go home, I see instances of racism just about everyday. At work, if someone of African or middle eastern descent walks into the store, you can see many people staring them down and wondering what they are doing. They do not treat them with the same respect as they would a white man. No I don’t think that this is right or even fair, but there is nothing we can do about it. People today have the right to think and speak freely, and some of them just exercise it more than others.

Racism will always be in the air, and there is nothing anyone can do about it except the person that is doing it. It is up to the racist to change his or her ways of thinking. Yes there is a chance that nothing will change, but I’ve noticed that the more that people are educated on other ethnicity’s the more open-minded they become. So if more people are educated on other races, there is a chance that this world can get rid of some of its hatred.

~http://vezytes.blogspot.com/2007/11/social-problem-racism.html

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