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How to 'cure' racism?

rubberduck said:
So... one of the causes of racism is commonly quoted as being ignorance and/or a lack of education. So what exactly is best cure for a racist?
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First teach people that there is only one human race and that there is just variation within the human race, which is obvious really, secondly teach true love and respect to everyone. But of course there are those that will perhaps just refuse to comply with anything they don't want to. And of course there are those that will just make up their own laws and do what they want to do, mankind by himself can not do it though, that is obvious too.
 
It's only going to get worse as the equator becomes inhospitable due to various reasons, currently mostly due to flying bullets and explosives.

We will eventually be forced to have a zero tolerance immigration policy if current trends continue.
 
There are liberal good people and there are right wing morons. This has always been and always will be. Like it or not, racism is here to stay.
 
Reduce inequality, improve education and social mixing from a younger age and eventually racism will die out more and more with each generation... to be replaced with some other irrational intolerance as a product of whatever pressures exist.
 
There is only one race and that is the human race. All other variations in man kinds differences in physicality are a result of climate and environment and ultimately genetics. Climate and environment affects genetics. Thus humans in different regions in the world all develop the same. Genetics diversification is when you have many individuals from one region having children with another regions. Thus it is genetic (climate and environment) isolation in history (the past) that leads to what we now call different races.

The bigger problem with racism is cultural bias. People have never and rarely will accept new cultures so easily. UK has been one of the main countries outside of us that has accepted all different cultures. A lot of countries are still mono culture and strict about it. Most british will treat people with respect regardless of their so called race. I've seen it myself, people mixing all different types and colours friends, sharing food and everything, its real.
 
It is only natural to be curious about why someone looks different and how that will affect you.

Where I'm from there's not a lot of black people (<<1%), so when I first saw a black kid in my primary I was curious and somewhat afraid (was only 6).

Not in the sense that they might harm me, but in the sense that I might behave somehow to offend them. Same thing happened when I had a blind fellow student. I was nervous around him fearing I might offend him somehow.

I think racist behavior can be reduced by travelling around the world, and witnessing how other people live, think and what opinions they have about foreigners or people with different attributes than the dominant percentage of the population.

Being a foreigner in the UK, I have been very rarely been discriminated, but reading the news about how certain groups of people want foreigners out, I understand why when it comes to people coming over and just getting benefits, cause that's my tax money as well, but to generalize all foreigner workers saddens me.

However, the same behavior can be observed to where I'm from. A "nationalist" party, whose supporters preach that foreigners should go back.

So my conclusion is that everywhere you go there's people that don't want foreigners, and are racist, but the people who are less racist are those who have a high standard of education, but most importantly have traveled.
 
For me it will never go away. The reason I say this is that it seems to be a natural human trait to dislike/hate something that it different to you. It could be race, being fat, being poor or being rich, being from a different country, etc. Irrespective of the difference humans will always dislike those that are different to them.

It doesn't help though with race that most races don't truly mix. If I go online now and look at photos of black or Asian friends 90% of their friends are the same race as them. The lack of true integration will continue to be a major factor in ongoing race issues.


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Wait a few centuries and globalisation will make us all a muddy brown colour.
 
benjii said:
You are correct on all assumptions there, however, I would argue it is attributed to their skin colour. Not because black men as people are more likely to be criminals or have lower social status, but because the institutional racism in this country has created a culture in which they are marginalised thus leading to the aforementioned behaviour being accepted as the norm.
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So why aren't the victims of knife crime in London predominately white then?

That is just making excuses.
 
People could stop being so politically correct all the time and shouting racist at the first opportunity they get. That would help.

How can you even expect to have a discussion about racism with anyone when the word itself has pretty much lost all meaning from being thrown about so much.

As for trying to change someone who is actually racist (in the true sense of the word)... Why bother? Let them go on with their lives and you go on with yours. There are 7 billion people in this World, be around those that aren't idiots
 
Castiel said:
Racism isn't a disease. It is a manifestation of a base and inherent fear of difference. There is no cure, societal morality may suppress it for a time, but if that society falters then you will find that the same base instincts rise.
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I don't think its 'fear' in the irrational sense the word suggests. This is just how people like to couch it in order to suggest the racially concious are somehow weak. The reality is that humans view people in terms of in-groups and out-groups. They don't necessarily fear the out-groups, they just don't like them. Men and women both demonstrate preference for their own race in sex selections; do you think that is because they fear the other races?

So although I agree with what you're saying on the whole, I think the description of it as 'fear' is simply wrong. People just like to mix with their own kind. Our multicultural societies and anti-racism propaganda suppresses this base instinct.

As to the OP's question, there is no 'cure' to something which is a basic survival trait. The best way to suppress it, is to assimilate the out-groups as best you can into the host culture. If a black, asian or whatever person is basically British in all but skin colour, they might be viewed as being part of the in-group.
 
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Until the little green men from outer space pitch up and start knocking on our doors giving the human race a reason to group together as one (and sadly hate something else) then racism is here to stay.
 
Racism (and most prejudices) are, as you said, usually down to ignorance so to 'cure' them you put someone in an environment where they are in regular contact with the kind of people they are prejudiced against.

E.g. for a racist, make them live in a diverse city and work/socialise regularly with people of different races. Over time they will realise that there is no real difference.
 
JBod said:
Wait a few centuries and globalisation will make us all a muddy brown colour.
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Here's hoping.

Then we can all get on peacefully and recognise what we have in common rather than what we don't.
 
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