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Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity. Racism can be present in social actions, practices, or political systems (e.g. apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices. The ideology underlying racist practices often assumes that humans can be subdivided ...
French political tradition does not use the term "racial minority" in its discourse because all of the rights that the French Revolution represents lie on two notions: the notion of the state and the notion of man. Thus, French political tradition sees these rights as a universal and natural (or inalienable) benefit of being human. [8]
Racism of various kinds have been a recurring problem on Wikipedia, and nearly since its inception. Indeed, most of the article subjects topics that have been placed under discretionary sanctions are those in which racist sentiments (and accusations of such) have played a major role.
An important characteristic of the so-called 'new racism', 'cultural racism' or 'differential racism' is the fact that it essentialises ethnicity and religion, and traps people in supposedly immutable reference categories, as if they are incapable of adapting to a new reality or changing their identity.
The first known French construction of the modern idea of race (as well as the first example of the modern idea of race worldwide) was developed by French thinker François Bernier in his article, originally published anonymously in the Journal des sçavans, entitled “Nouvelle Division de la Terre par les différentes Espéces ou Race d’hommes qui l’habite (A New Division of the Earth ...
Anti-racism encompasses a range of ideas and political actions which are meant to counter racial prejudice, systemic racism, and the oppression of specific racial groups. Anti-racism is usually structured around conscious efforts and deliberate actions which are intended to create equal opportunities for all people on both an individual and a ...
Institutional racism, also known as systemic racism, is a form of institutional discrimination based on race or ethnic group and can include policies and practices that exist throughout a whole society or organization that result in and support a continued unfair advantage to some people and unfair or harmful treatment of others.
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