sexta-feira, 6 de março de 2009

Racism, was born as.

Racism is in Western culture, linked to certain conceptions of human nature which justify the discrimination of human beings in order to operate.


By the end of the Middle Ages (XV century), the discrimination was based on two types of arguments: those based on culture and social support provided.


The Greeks are mainly supported the first type of arguments. They felt superior in relation to other people because they were more educated.


During the Roman Empire and Middle Ages, preponderam discrimination based on social condition. The nobles in the Middle Ages, for example, were recognized as superior in relation to other social groups, because they enjoyed certain privileges which they had inherited or been assigned by a King These and other privileges established a hierarchy between human beings, so that some were recognized as superior to others.

quinta-feira, 5 de março de 2009

Emmigration

Emigration is the act of leaving one's native country or region to settle in another. It is the same as immigration but from the perspective of the country of origin. Human movement before the establishment of state boundaries or within one state, is termed migration. There are many reasons why people might choose to emigrate.



Reasons for emigration:
- Political

- Economic

- Personal


The Refugee


Refugee is a person what owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of their nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail him/herself of the protection of that country.



segunda-feira, 2 de março de 2009

The most frequent type of racism.

Colorism is a form of discrimination in which human beings are accorded differing social and treatment based on skin color. The preference often gets translated into economic status because of opportunities for work. Colorism can be found across the world. The term is generally used for the phenomenon of people discriminating within their own ethnic groups. Often, in countries where the majority group are in control, websites and other locations for researching this issue, distort the facts and portray the main culprits to be the minorities ( Black against white colorism, etc).





What is Racism?


Racism it may be defined as the hatred of one person by another -- or the belief that another person is less than human -- because of skin color, language, customs, place of birth or any factor that supposedly reveals the basic nature of that person. It has influenced wars, slavery, the formation of nations, and legal codes.


domingo, 1 de março de 2009

Xenophobia

Xenophobia is the fear that the human being normally has to what it is different (for this individual). Xenophobia is also a psychiatric riot to the extreme and uncontrolled fear to the different stranger or. Xenophobia is still used in an ample direction mentioning any form to it of preconception, racial, group (of minority groups) or cultural. Although widely accepted, this meaning generates confusions, associating xenophobia the preconceptions, leading to believe that any preconception is a phobia.

Difference between emigration and immigration


It's call emigration to the spontaneous act to leave the residence local to stabilish it in another region or nation.

It's considered the imigration a movement of entry, with the permanet spirit or /with temporary a intention of work and/ or residence, of people or population, from a country to another.