Racism and Your Community - Essay Example

Download file to see previous pages It is evidently clear from the discussion that though there is no difference between Africans and those ‘aliens’ (American, European and Asian), even though there always seems to be problems in interaction amongst all these groups of people. The Africans tend to be united and keep together and they tend to distance themselves from these ‘white people’ especially Europeans that were involved in the colonization of Africa. Though the world today has changed a lot today unlike earlier days of extreme racial discrimination in countries like South Africa, during the apartheid period, there still is a major problem amongst people regarding racial terms. In the researcher’s school, the natives, of whom he is a part, receive favor from the leaders of the school. This is because the leaders believe that we are going to be useful to the society unlike the ‘aliens’ who aim at taking back what they get from here to their birth countries. On the other hand, the ‘aliens’ are not directly discriminated but they do pay a lot more for the same services that the natives get. The fact that a person is coming from outside our country in order to receive education, then they will have to pay an extra fee, usually more than the normal price. This is usually an indirect way of encouraging the local people to enroll in the programs and discourage the foreigners. Through this is a system that has been put to benefit the country financially, it also indirectly acts as a reminder to the ‘aliens’ that they are different from the locals. ...
The locals tend to believe that the foreigners pose a threat to them in their own country. This is why even from the government level there is encouragement to the natives to take up education so they stand a better position against the foreigners. The government would not want to have a generation that has no education which be manipulated by foreign people. On the other hand, the foreigners seem to have a different thought of what is their environment. They know of the differences between them and the locals, but still they try to fit in through making themselves aware of the cultures exhibited by the locals. Unlike in earlier days when the ‘whites’ thought they were more superior over all other culture, they now want to interact and get to know each other to form a bigger community. This, according to me, would be a great idea, unfortunately it is not a mutual feeling amongst all the other locals. Sometimes the foreigners may receive special treatment from the locals and this could be in instances of them being tourists and the locals could benefit from showing them around and get money from them, but the locals would not agree to the foreigners actually living amongst them. There have been cases reported in the recent past about murders done by whites against colored and this has been viewed by the locals as a very bad scenario to portray that racism still exists. This has brought about a lot of tension between the locals and the foreigners. Though the segregation that was witnessed during the colonial times is no longer in existence, and the people are using the same facilities equally, it seems that still there’s no unity running through the different races that make up the community. Lack of ...Download file to see next pagesRead More