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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Paulus

Nee hoor...

Racisme is overal hetzelfde.

Alleen de wetgeving daaromtrend verschilt van plaats naar plaats.

Maar racisme blijft overal en door alle tijden heen een visie, waarbij men bij het beoordelen van de medemens, diens ras als criterium laat meetellen.

Paulus.

Dictionary

Because racism carries connotations of race-based bigotry, prejudice, violence, oppression, stereotyping or discrimination, the term has varying and often hotly contested definitions. Racialism is a related term intended to avoid these negative meanings, though whether any word associated with the concept of race can escape the fundamental problems with the concept is doubtful. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, racism is a belief or ideology that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially to distinguish it as being either superior or inferior to another race or races. The Merriam-Webster's Webster's Dictionary dictionary defines racism as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race, and that it is also the prejudice based on such a belief.[7] The Macquarie Dictionary defines racism thus: the belief that human races have distinctive characteristics which determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule or dominate others.

Sociology

Sociologists have defined racism as a system of group privilege. In Portraits of White Racism David Wellman (1993) has defined racism as "culturally sanctioned beliefs, which, regardless of intentions involved, defend the advantages whites have because of the subordinated position of racial minorities,” (Wellman 1993: x). Sociologists Noel Cazenave and Darlene Alvarez Maddern define racism as “...a highly organized system of 'race'-based group privilege that operates at every level of society and is held together by a sophisticated ideology of color/'race' supremacy. Racist systems include, but cannot be reduced to, racial bigotry,” (Cazenave and Maddern 1999: 42). These definitions are important advances because the dominant definition of racism presumes that racism is an irrational form of bigotry that is not connected to the organization of social structure.

Anthropology

Scholars such as anthropologist Audrey Smedley (2007) point out that the very idea of 'race' implies inequality and hierarchy. Biologically there are no scientific classifications that delineate human groups into 'races' (Graves 2004). Historians such as Theodore Allen (1994; 1997) have analyzed colonial records from Virginia and concluded that the idea of a "white race" was originally invented in the early 18th century to splice together various European ethnic groups who never before thought they had anything in common. Noel Ignatiev (1995) has written an historical analysis of how the Irish became members of the "white race" in the 19th century.

Ideology

As an ideology, racism first appeared during Early modern Europe in Spain during the Reconquista,[citation needed] and then during the 19th century, where "scientific racism" ideologies, which attempted to provide a racial classification of humanity, became very common[citation needed]. Although such racist ideologies have been widely discredited after World War II and the Holocaust, the phenomena of racism and of racial discrimination have remained widespread all over the world.
Racism has been a motivating factor in social discrimination, racial segregation, hate speech and violence (such as pogroms, genocides and ethnic cleansings). Despite the persistence of racial stereotypes, humor and epithets in much everyday language, racial discrimination is illegal in many countries. Some politicians have practiced race baiting in an attempt to win votes.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism#Dictionary

Wel blijkt dat de twee belangrijkste woordenboeken ter wereld er elk een verschillende mening op nahouden die dan ook nog eens afwijkt van uw woordenboekdefinitie. Naast het woordenboek zijn er blijkbaar ook nog andere definities van racisme afhankelijk van welke invalshoek het bestudeerd wordt.