Race: a group of people of common ancestry and or distinguished from others by physical characteristics, a group of people sharing the same interests. Race is just not color nor is it limited to nationalities but to the variation of people with beliefs and interest as a group. The key word is “people” …all people with equal rights. Limiting the word race to color, nationalities or ethic groups in today world of cultural blend, interest, beliefs, and life styles would be unjustified in the goal of equal rights for all.
Racism historically been defined as the belief that
race is the primary determinant of human capacities, that a certain race is inherently superior or inferior to others, and/or that individuals should be treated differently according to their racial designation. Sometimes
racism means beliefs, practices, and institutions that discriminate against people based on their perceived or ascribed race. There is a growing, but somewhat controversial, opinion that racism is a
system of oppression -- a nexus of racist beliefs, whether explicit, tacit or unconscious; practices; organizations and institutions that combine to discriminate against and marginalize a class of people who share a common racial designation, based on that designation.
Since the last quarter of the 20th century, there have been few in developed nations who describe themselves as racist, so that identification of a group or person as racist is nearly always controversial. Racism is recognised by many as an affront to basic human dignity and a violation of human rights. A number of international treaties have sought to end racism. The United Nations uses a definition of racist discrimination laid out in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and adopted in 1965: any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life. Assuming that every individual's character adequately can be determined by racial or stereotypes race prejudice, and granting or withholding or privileges based on such stereotypes is racial . The term racism sometimes is used to mean a strong and persistent bias or inclination towards these activities.
Some believe that the term also is often used incorrectly by supporters of relativism and to stigmatise their adversaries.
