Racism is one of the world’s major issues today. Many people are not aware of how much racism still exists in our school’s workforces, and anywhere else where social lives are occurring. It is obvious that racism is bad as it was many decades ago but it sure has not gone away. Racism very much exists and it is about time that people need to start thinking about the instigations and solutions to this matter. Many people believe that it depends on if a person was brought into the world as a racist or not but that is not the case at all. In fact, an individual cannot be born a racist but only learn to become one as they grow from child to adulthood. Basic causes, mainstream, institutions, government, anti-racism groups, and even some hidden events in Canada’s past are a few of the possible and solutions to racism. 

or is smarter. All racism includes the idea that because 

of someone’s skin color or religion they are members of a superior or 

inferior race. This belief can have an enormous effect over the way 

that one group of people treats one another. 

Racism is an obvious form of prejudice. A lot of people are of the 

opinion that if they made a racist joke but it was funny or they 

didn’t mean it in that way then it is justifiable. People who are 

prejudiced are people who have strong feelings against certain types 

of people before they have even met them. Prejudice means 

‘pre-judgment’ (first impressions) and society proves that people 

will judge somebody sooner than they would get to know them. 

Regularly individual people are very friendly, but because of their 

actions throughout history or their rival religious beliefs people 

often see them as being a possible threat and treat every person of 

that race as if they were the same. This is called stereotyping. 

Stereotyping is when all people of a certain type are thought to share 

the same characteristics. Often stereotypes are used as forms of 

racial abuse and horrible jokes. For example: 

“Why did the Romans build straight roads? So the Paki’s couldn’t build 

corner shops”. 

The first black people to be brought to Britain were slaves. The 

so-called ‘Slave race’ were taken from their home countries and taken 

to Britain and America. Although Slave trading and their opinions 

racism continue to thrive, then what sort of a place will we create? A 

place where there is war on every street because of something as 

unimportant as skin color? I hope not. A future of violence and 

hatred isn’t what I have in mind. I see a future for future

generations where everybody’s at peace with each other and are looking 

at the things that are actually important in life. 

Racism is a problem in the 21st Century. I could let dozens of racist 

names or sayings that I’ve heard over the year’s roll of my tongue and 

I am only 15. There is hope for the future however. Racism is 

something that can just stop, it doesn’t take a strong-willed person 

just not to call out and make racist remarks. Racism is not just 

something on the Television. Racism is very real and it’s around us 

all the time.