What do you think about racism among teenagers?

Im doing coursework, whats your opinions?What do you think about racism among teenagers?
I think that as a teenagaer myself, adults help the children learn rasiscm as much as anything. A lot of teens I hang out with have a ';so-what-if-you're'; additude. 90% of my friends are white, but we are all different. Some are skinny, some are fat. There's a huge group of us that plays Runsecape, and we use that as the common denominater. If teens can find something in common it doesn't usually matter.What do you think about racism among teenagers?
I think there are certainly racism among teenagers in UK even up to today, and that is a very sad thing. It shows you that they need to be properly educated. They seem to have pretty closed mind about certain group of people such as immigrants or Muslim people, and I think adults around them are responsible for that. The adults have to be educated better in order to stop kids being racists.
it sucks. i guess everybody learns it from their parents. when we hear our parents say sumthin at home, we think its ok since they said it. n when ur a teenager, its bad to be different. theres sum white kids in my school that get their *** kicked just for bein white. i feel bad that sh*t like that happens cuz of their skin color
The social environment changes people. Its also sad due to the fact that it skews their views on wider issues in which they would otherwise be building their own opinions on based upon analysis of facts other then race related information. Racism is an appalling and gross issue. Its sad that young people are learning at an earlier stage something so fundamentally difficult to change among adults whom utilise it to exploit all sorts of situations that they come across in later life.
In the DR.PHIL house this season they did a lot on racism and prejudice of manykinds... Maybe you might find some useful statistics and info on his site! Good luck
Racism is a fact of life I believe. Even animals are racist, a tribe of monkeys with a abundent supply of food and water and shelter would not want to share with a different tribe if they had none as they care more for their own, both groups are monkeys but they look after their own kind. People are much the same as this.
Children and teenagers only learn these racist remarks from others, parents, family etc.I think they have a right to say some things like asking questions about multi-cultural races. But the racist thing is too sensitive nowadays and small children can get into trouble for saying innocent things like ';that dolly is black';


I now a 3 year old who has a coloured doll and calls her ';chocolate'; No harm in that.


P.S im not racist myself just stating the facts
My experience is that relatively few teenagers are racist.
It is bad. Many people in my school are racist and say mean things about minorities, because it is mostly a white school. They are so mean and when they say mean things about me I feel really bad about myself.
I kind of think racism is an ancient tool for tribal survival.





children are not racist because they are not yet having to provide for the tribe.





But an adult must be suspicious of people from other tribes who might kill him, or take his wife or his food supply etc.





It is natural to be suspicious of the unknown.
I dislike it to the highest value. To me people are the same. Just because we have different skin color doesn't mean we are these horrible people. I really don't get racism. Like I said people are just people. We are all the same. Plain and simple.
Just blunders and slip-ups with human errors in the creation of living human kind into mankind as the Son of God on planet earth.


Instead the dirty old men in office created living human kind into people of different races of racism with self prides as the son of men in planet of apes.


At loss that living human kind never know how to create living human kind into mankid without our creator in planet of apes.


At loss someone out there been watching too many porno movies took for granted that sex is the creation of living human kind into mankind in planet of apes.


At loss living human kind can only reproduce living human kind in planet of apes.


At loss on why porno movies became the best seller than our creator universal gifts of life in planet of apes.
Racism exist in people of all age groups. It is a fact of life.
In my experience, a lot more of the older generation are openly racist and encourage that type of behaviour, while the teenagers (such as myself) are on a whole less racist, although there are still those there.





Something I noticed is that in teenagers especially, those from the 'lower class' tend to have more racists in than the those from the 'middle class' and 'upper class', while in older adults you'll find a lot of racists in any class. I am generalising though and that doesn't mean that all from any class are racist. My own theory is that it's just because in general amount of money earned equates to intelligence quite often. Example being that someone who isn't intelligent may only work moving boxes, while someone who's highly intelligent and would think things through may work as a managing director.
Well, that is just always going to happen between anyone that is different. I always try to be open-minded and I truly feel that I am not racist. Sometimes it's a little hard to do that when you here ';Ridin''; booming over and over again from the budget dorms across the street though...
Racism has roots in a group of people changing words of God and call themselves the elected people. It's as devilish as it sounds and must be rooted out.
I deplore racism in anybody.





If you are doing coursework, I am not going to answer your question for you, but here are some things you might think about:-


1. How far is racism caused by economic inequality? Lack of career opportunities, and fair means for their distribution, may be a recipe for racism.


2. What are the social reasons for racism? In particular, does racism among teenagers relate to the needs of young people to find a social identity? This need for belonging may be satisfied by joining gangs which define their purpose by antagonism to other groups defined by race? Are there better ways for teenagers to participate in society?


3. Has evolution given people needs to identify with a genetic group? If so, does human nature conflict with morality in relation to race? Can education overcome any such conflict?


4. How does racism (bad) differ from commitment to ones to family, nation and, come to that, sports team (not so bad)?


5. What is race? It tends to be identified with skin colour, but if you think in terms of genetic variation (e,g. DNA analysis), very little of the differences between people reate to skin colour. And try this thought experiment. Travel in your mind through Europe to Turkey. Then go on in your mind through Iraq and Iran to Pakistan, or through Syria and Egypt to Africa. Is there any clear point at which people change skin colour (No!)? (I have numbered my questions as I think of them, but of course you need to start any essay by defining your terms - in this case ';race';)


6. How does racial tolerance relate to religious and politcal tolerance?





There are some questions, but for coursework you need to relate answers to them to facts. If you are going to give a good answer it is also a good idea to relate what you think about such matters to things in your personal experience.





Incidentally, education should be about seeing both sides of an argument, but in the case of racism I doubt whether you would be wise to hand in coursework arguing that racism is a good thing. Toleration stops when it comes to tolerating the intolerant. You need to think out why.
Todays teens are supposed to be an enlightened generation,far from it,no matter how hard politicians try it is not possible to make people like each other.
They were taught to be racist. Tolerance needs to be taught beginning at an early age. We don't have to like those who are different, but we do have to tolerate them. Otherwise, those who are intolerant are only making themsleves miserable.
racism tastes liek butter pecan ice cream
It seems rife on these pages.





Amazing considering that most of them haven't got a clue about the real world and haven't got the experience to make an educated statement about the subject.
Blame the parents.....blame the music they listen to, it has an incredible influence. Blame the government too for the unfairness of our society, illegals and asylum seekers and the other foreign spongers in our country appear to get preferential treatment, cheap labour etc.... it builds resentment....which probably started with the parents comments they heard when they were small. Too many people harp on about skin colour it's not thing to do with that....it's money based.
Children learn these behaviors from their parents and authority figures in their lives. When they see it's ok, accepted and encouraged, racist attitudes will flourish among impressionable minds. To me this is an especially rabid form of child abuse.