Religious Studies Coursework: Racism.

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Religious Studies Coursework: Racism.

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i) What is Racism?

Racism is prejudice against people of another race or ethnic group. Prejudice means pre-judging: making up your mind about someone or something when you have not considered the facts or the evidence.

Racism has been around for a very long time, one of the first times that it happened on a major scale was when the Jews moved to Egypt, but were put into slavery because the Egyptians thought of them as inferior because their skin colour and religious beliefs.

People are, or can be racist due to three main points, the first is that they were brought up by parents who were racist, and they automatically adopted the views of them because that was all they knew as right. Secondly, when a person came into your land and you had never seen anyone like them before, people could be scared, because people fear what they do not understand.

Finally, people who live in an area of poverty often need someone to blame, a famous case of this was in Germany, where food and money shortages were blamed on the Jews and this