Racism

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· 15 Feb 2021

Racism

#blacklivesmatter Racism is an enhanced sense of the “racial feeling" of an ethnic group, which usually leads to discrimination or persecution of other ethnic groups. The word 'racism' also denotes the anthropological doctrine or political ideology based on that sentiment. In accordance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 21 December 1965:
“The doctrine of superiority based on racial differentiation is scientifically incorrect, morally reprehensible, socially unfair and dangerous, and nothing in theory or practice can justify racial discrimination anywhere."
The first article of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965) defines racism as:
'Any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, pedigree or national or ethnic origin whose object or effect is to nullify recognition, enjoyment or exercise in equivalent circumstances or be affected by the fundamental human rights and in the political, economic, social, cultural spheres or in any other sphere of public life".

There are authors who propose to distinguish between racism in a broad sense and racism in a limited sense. In the first case, it would be an ethnocentric or 'sociocentric' attitude that distinguishes one's own group from that of others, and who believes that both consist of hereditary and immutable essences that make others strangers, inadmissible and threatening beings. This view of others would lead to their segregation, discrimination, expulsion or extermination and could be based on scientific or religious ideas or purely legends or traditional feelings. It also confirms the intellectual and moral superiority of some races over others, a superiority maintained with racial purity and ruined by racial mixing. This type of racism, modeled after Nazi and Western racism in general, leads to the defence of the natural right of the “superior" races to prevail over the “inferior" .6 Racism in the narrow sense is a doctrine of scientific appearances that the hereditary biological determination of the intellectual and moral abilities of the individual, and the division of human groups into races, differentiated by physical characters associated with intellectual and moral, hereditary and immutable.

Granting or withholding rights or privileges based on race or refusing to deal with people because of race is known as racial discrimination.

Racist attitudes, values and systems, openly or secretly, create a hierarchical order between ethnic or racial groups, which is used to justify the privileges or benefits of the dominant group.

In order to combat racism, the United Nations adopted in 1965 the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and established 21 March as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

For more information, visit the author's main page: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racismo