Racism which is also known as
Racialism, any action, belief or practice that shows the racial overview. The
doctrine that humans may be separated into different categories on the basis of
caste, color, religion, gender etc. There is some traits of personality, intellect, morality, and
other cultural features. Racism means the term used to describe the hostile or
people with negative feelings toward another and the actions resulting from
such attitudes. This principle typically regards one’s own race as superior to
other races.
Racism have three interrelated levels:
1. Individual Racism: It involves those
individuals who hold racist beliefs. The feature of individual racism is that
the group differences are viewed as inborn and unchangeable.
2. Situational Racism: It occurs when racist
behavior is shaped by the social context. This occurs when situations are
figured based on racist beliefs to place one group in an inferior position in
intergroup interation. When one racial group in a situation possesses most of
the resources that emphasize the status differences between the groups.
3. Structural and cultural Racism results
when a society’s instutitions are shaped by racist beliefs and results in group
discrimination. Racism’s effects can invade virtually all of a society’s
institutions. Racism differentiates human beings from one another by presumed
“races”, and this leads to unequal access to resources and opportunities as
well as other forms of inequality such as gender, ethnic and class based inequity.