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Hello everyone
Today I am going to talk about racism
and although, normally, I write my own exercises
I have found a very good article about racism
and I'm going to read it instead.
Also, I am only one person and it's difficult to talk
like different people so reading an article like this is
much more effective.
So, this article is called 'Racism, where does that come from?
Being racist is believing that different races existe
and that some are superior to others.
In fact, races only existe amongst animals.
We don't have to talk about different human races
but a single type of human.
Despite everything, some people assert the opposite
in order to justify domination or persecution towards
certain groups of people distinguished by their physical appearance,
their habits, their ideas, their religion...
Globally, we often have trouble accepting our differences.
We fear the unknown, we seek to avoid what we don't understand.
That's why we have a tendancy to reject that which is different,
strange, because one's language, one's customs are incomprehensible.
Therefore nobody is safe from looking down on what is different.
Racism is related to hatred, fear, prejudice, ignorance,
intolerance and the ideology of cultural or personal superiority.
Knowing as many people as possible allows us to not generalise our judgements,
that is, to not imagine that some people who have the same appearance,
the same religion, the same job, the same age,
necessarily have the same faults.
In order to combat our racist and xenophobic reflexes,
we should reach out to others because clichés interfere with our universe.
It would be so sad if everybody looked the same!