Race: The distinction of physical characteristics genetically passed town from generation to generation and used to divide the human population in to subgroups.
Race needed to first be defined before I could begin about the topic of racism. Since the division of race is technically not race but ethnicity. Ethnicity refers to the geographic locale that a specific (i.e. Mexico/ Mexican) group of people originated from. Therefore; Race and racism are incorrect terms and racism is the classification of one group of people (i.e. Americans) being superior to another (i.e. Africans). Which is not true because that's making ethnicity a bigger problem than it really should be.
Though Racism exists the correct term should be ethnic prejudice because those that are seen as racist are actually just filled with an irrational intolerance for those a a specific nationality or ethnicity. For example some people are prejudice against the African American population because they feel threatened in some way. Some feel an intolerance for other believe systems or cultural customs that other groups of humans hold.
We need to work to end Ethnic/ National Prejudice. We need to learn about and respect the different faith systems and cultural customs of other groups of humans. Everyone needs to respect not necessarily agree with or condone the belief sets or customs that are held by different ethnic groups but we need to respect them and tolerate those that are with in reason. We need to each the coming generations not to bash others for the beliefs but rather to have on honest and respectful conversation so that both sides and educate each other and learn to co-exist with each other as well as agree to disagree with out fighting each other over every little discrepancy.
