Racism exists

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Racism exists everywhere you go. During the last fifty years, since the adoption in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of human rights, the international community has made some important advances in the fight against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. A treaty to ban racial discrimination has been adopted and progress has been made. As technology brings the people of the world closer together and political barriers tumble, racism and racial discriminations continue to ravage our societies. Expressions such as 'ethnic cleansing' have emerged in recent years. But where does racism take source and what are the causes of racism?

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[...] The boycott was not without evil since the house of Martin Luther King was victim of one bombing. It's him which pronounced this marked famous sentence on August in front of people in Washington, a sentence which resounds 30 more years afterwards make a dream! And this dream, it's that one day all the men will rise and understand finally that they are made to live together like brothers . In 1964, a new law on the civic rights, enacted by President Johnson, comes into force. [...]

[...] Racism exist, it exist in any country everywhere you go. During the last fifty years, since the adoption in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of human rights, the international community has made some important advances in the fight against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. A treaty to ban racial discrimination have been adopted, progress has been made. As technology brings the people of the world closer together and political barriers tumble, racism and racial discriminations continue to ravage our societies. [...]

[...] Europe is a complex area with many cultures in a relatively small area of land that has seen many conflicts throughout history Racism has also been used to justify exploitation, even using “pseudo- science” IV- Victims of racism, who are they? Everybody can be a victim of racism, for example black people in France but also white people in the Caribbean island . Usually the victim of racism are some minority groups, that is to say A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their lives than members of a dominant or majority group. This notion is not based on a mathematical minority (for example black in South Africa). [...]

[...] Emblematic figures of fight against racism: * Rosa Parks: In 1955, Rosa Parks, a black woman then 42 years old, refuses to yield its place to a person of white colour in a bus. However during this period the blacks do not have the right to sit down with the first four ranks, and when the bus is full the blacks must yield their place to the white. And that is only one aspect of the racial segregation in the United States. However this day there, Rosa Parks refuses to yield its place. Following that, it was considered to be guilty, condemned to pay a fine of 15 dollars. [...]

[...] Then we will try to describe who the victims of racism are. In the fourth part we are going to examine the example of racism in Europe. To finish we will tell you what can be the prevention and the education!!! II- Definition of the terms Initially, I will give you some useful definitions to understand what exactly racism - Racism: racism is a whole of theories and which establish a hierarchy between the races, the ethnic groups and more particularly political doctrines recommending the domination of a race on the others and the tender of the interests of the individuals to those of the race. [...]