Racism is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits. It shows that there is racial differences between people. People are considered superior or inferior to eachother on the basis of differences between them.
It is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another that is the person's social or moral traits are predetermined by his or her biological characteristics. It is a belief that different races should remain separate and apart from eachother.
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During the past 500_1000 years racism has had a significant impact history. The most important example of racism by the west has been the slavery, particularly the enslavement of Africans in the new year.
This slavery dates back to thousands of years. Slavery is an American institution. Slavery and freedom existed side by side in America.
It was due to the belief that black Africans were less fully human than white European and descendent. It is based on the differences between the one's race, skin colour, or more generally one's group, it can also be religious, national or ethnic identity is superior to the other.
It has also been a part of American landscape primarily in the beginning of 17 th century.
With the European arrival on the North America shores, there basic plan was to conquer the land, came racism and bigotry against the Native American.
Europeans believed that the original inhabitants of America were heathens and seveges who needed to be civilized through Christanity. This discrimination and feeling of superiority resulted in mass murder, stolen land and attempts to wipe out native American. This created a long term effect on the Native …show more content…
The first British town in America was the James Town. As slavery was prohibited between Christians and could only be imposed on non_Christains prisnors of war or in men already sold as slaves. English could not be enslaved for life according to English law.
Firslty the native American were enslaved, later on, native workers were replaced by Africans imported through a large commercial slave trade. These Africans were captured and sold from their Africans were homelands.
Many of the Africans were brought to America through the starting of 17th century. They were arrived as slaves, kidnapped from their homelands in various parts of Africa. Most of them were literate. The Africans (Men, women and children) were stripped of their names and were forced to Christanize. They were brutally beaten and tortured. They were hanged at the whims of their white masters. For them slavery was the key factor to maintain their vast properties and land.
Families were also seperated through the process of buying and selling slaves. Not all of the Africans in America were slaves but only some of them.
Thoese who were slaves were not given a right to owing property and were also deprived of the right to vote. Dark people were considered inferior to the white