Racism… How is it promoted?

When you ask someone this simple question “Where are you from?” You say through this simple question to the other that you do not belong here, that is, you are different.

But should people be asked to explain and justify their origins after this question?

Treatment based on difference appeared early in human history. According to the French sociologist Albert Mimi, racism is the generalized and absolute evaluation of actual or illusory differences in favor of the accused and at the expense of his victim, with which he tries to justify his privileges.

This is not limited to racism based on racial biology, as it was in the past, but is sometimes based on a purely cultural basis, and the basis of this distinction is the excessive emphasis on the illusory differences between the racist and the victim, and thus the difference is the focus of thinking and representation, the use of the excuse of difference between a person or another or one category and another is indispensable to racist arguments.

 It does not matter if this difference is real or purely illusion and imagination, important or unimportant difference in itself. If there is no difference except in the name, the bearer of racist tendencies will invent it, magnify it and feed it with different arguments, to justify the transformation of tendencies into behavior and action and try to explain and interpret it in his favour.

 “Victim Interrogation” Where are you from? Why are you here? what are you thinking about? Why did you leave your country? Do you know you are not welcome? How much money do you make? do you work? are you a human?????? And many, many more interrogations that no one has the right to put to another, perhaps except for the competent governmental authorities in certain cases, and here we are talking about the interrogation of one individual to another…

In fact, the biggest result of racism against any group in this world is the birth of mutual hatred. A simple quarrel between two people may turn into a spark of a collective war, which will plunge everyone into a racial war and great massacres!

Article written by:
Nabil Adham Al-Mohammed