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Chapter (11) - Racism is not just the Discrimination based on Skin Color

Some of us think that Racism is just the discrimination based on skin color. They are mistaken. Although discrimination based on skin color is one of the types of racism, it is not limited to that. We find racism done on other parameters too like racism based on religion, social status, bank balance, property like lands and buildings, number of highly luxurious vehicles owned by the person, residence in a particular prime and posh locality of a city, residing in a developed country, ancestral history, superior and inferior castes, intelligence levels, physical strength and so many more.  For some, Racism actually starts from a very early age as small as 4 years old. Suppose a kid gets admitted in a kindergarten school. He loves every thing there - his colleagues, his books, the playground and the teachers as well. But there is one teacher, who does not like him because he is of a different religion than most other kids. He/she starts discriminating with him from day one. The ki...

Chapter (10)- Episodes of Racism in World History

If we look at the history of the world, we find that Racism is as old as the human civilization. Humans are believed to have been existing on this planet since 200,000 years. Right from primitive stage when humans lived in caves, preyed on animals and lived savage lives racism has been there. Just like kindness, cruelty and to be a racist are inborn features of a human being. Let us look into detail about those different episodes of racism in human history, which have changed the course of things for the future or at least have been so intense that nobody is able to forget them even after passage of so many years. (1) Adolf Hitler's racism towards the Jew community:- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Adolf Hitler is considered to be the person responsible for initiating World War 2 and the mass killings of millions of people therein. Some people call him the worst human ever, in recorded history. Why did he deliberately murder millions?...

Chapter (9) - Racism in different countries - an Overview

RACISM IN INDIA:- ================= For those who think there has never been Racism in India:- Many of my indian friends were messaging me on social media about my wrong selection of writing a book on Racism. They would like to give a reason that racism exists only in the western countries like the US and some european countries but not in India and that it is an irrelevant subject in India. I completely disagree with that.  In fact, Racism has been present in India since thousands of years now. In India there has remained this system of Varna Vyasvastha - the administration of society through division of work based on castes, which was brought into existence by the great and divine Rishis (saints) and scholars of India. Their purpose was very noble as they wanted to distribute all the total functions done by all people into specific category for a particular group of them, so that all do not have to perform all kinds of functions. But little did they know that this ver...