When racism issues echo within society they spread widely creating destruction. A major example of this is ‘anti-Semitism.’ Anti Semistism main source of distribution was propaganda. Propaganda can alter the way listeners think and see things. An extreme case is Hitler and Nazism. From small meetings in pubs this organisation diffracted through Germany and as far as America. This outburst of anti-Semitism led to mass executions of the Jewish community. The main reason of this is due to economic state of which the nazi’s called the ‘pure Germans.’ The Jews made a good living in Germany; they were financiers whereas the majority of Germans were living in poverty. The Germans thought this is the reason why they are not financially healthy. Hitler used this issue to succeed politically. The reign of Hitler demonstrates racism and discrimination to Jews because of the balance of the economy concerning the so-called ‘pure Germans.’ This exhibits how the nature and nurture (propaganda) of the Nazis can causes mayhem when a countryman sees the exploitation of his country’s market by ethnic groups.
These kinds of events are portrayed in a Hollywood movie called ‘American History X.’ In this movie members of society viewed their environment carefully realising ethnic groups were taking the fruits of their country. This psychologically enhanced their brains, thus their behaviour towards ethnic groups. They display their behaviour when they brake into and trash a Korean supermarket, terrorising anyone who is not white-skinned; hence making this a racial issue. Here the colour of ones skin helps explain why the racist attacks took place. Hence I think what defines racism? I think racism is a belief that certain genetic differences often skin colouration, hair or even face shape, are definitive of a person. Hence a racist person is one who makes a judgement before all the evidence is available. In terms of race, believes one’s race means they possess a particular character and status.
Over the years scientist have realised the idea of different ‘races’ is nonsense. Skin colour, for example, has always been one of the most common ways in which people’s race is allegedly shown. But only about six genes out of the one hundred thousand or so genes make up each human. Six out of one hundred thousand is not much but people have hung on to this tiny cluster of differences the whole idea of ‘race.’ They have made them important even though the differences are shown are literally ‘only skin deep.’ But despite the ideology of separate races is no longer taken seriously by scientists, many still suffer from being treated a ‘different race’ and discriminated against. However we should note the people who have been discriminated against, actually like to see themselves members of a distinct ‘race.’ So even though race is not real, the fact people treat race as a real thing shows that it is real; For the time being at least, a social fact, even if its not a biological one.
An aspect of human society that has been shown to be of important difference between groups of people is the difference in language, religion, dress, eating habits, etc. These sometimes correspond to one’s geographical location in the world. For example people from South Africa may share some inherited black hair, but may also share certain language in common, eat similar food or belong to the same religion.
Nature and nurture coincide when they affect racism. This is because society’s nurture i.e. what they visualise and hear about, is due to the difference in genetic make up which is the nature of one.
