Nowadays, everyone knows what racism is. Nevertheless, the definitions of racism may vary. Some people can define racism as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial difference produces an inherent superiority of a particular race. Some others may see it as some form of discrimination or prejudice based on race.
I personally believe that the best definition for that concept is the ideology or doctrine that humans are divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called “races,” that there is a causal link between inherited physical traits and and other cultural behaviors, and that some “races” are innately superior to others.
This feeling of superiority is especially seen in “white” societies who believe they are better than non-white societies and that they are priviledged. Indeed, they believe that colored people are meant to be seen as inferior to them and even hated by them.
We have witnessed different forms of racism through history, namely Apartheid in Africa. Furthermore, we definitely know another form of racism with Hitler’s Nazi movement, which believed in a “master race”.
Even today, people are still discriminated according to their race or religion, especially in the United States, where each group of people, who are similar, lives in a different community. For example, African-American people live in ghettos and are not welcome in the Upper East Side. In European countries, Arabs are