n the US, social class is tied to race. Thus, on average racial/ethnic minorities are more likely to be poor than their White counterparts. Why is it so? What factors are responsible for this and what are some of the consequences of racial/ethnic discrimination?
In the US, social class is tied to race. Thus, on average racial/ethnic minorities are more likely to be poor than their White counterparts. Why is it so? What factors are responsible for this and what are some of the consequences of racial/ethnic discrimination?
A race is a group of people who can be identified by their shared physical appearance. Racism is any set of beliefs that are genetically transmitted differences between human beings and are intrinsically associated with the presence or absence of certain socially relevant abilities or characteristics. Such differences are a legitimate basis of individual distinctions between groups socially defined as races. Race and racism are closely related. The countries that had racism as an ideology have also been characterized by systems of stratification. In Africa and America, racism was a political ideology.
But the mere presence of physical differences does not create racism. What creates racism is the social recognition of these differences. Racism is also not universal even though we find races all over the world. It is prominent in the US and South Africa. Racism has arisen with the coming of colonialism and the different races are socially and culturally evaluated.
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