When my group and I were studying Australia and New Zealand, we came across a rather shocking piece of information about Australia:
- 1 in 5 people has been target of racial discrimination (around 4.6 million people nation wide).
- 7 in 10 teenagers have experienced racism.
- 3 in 4 indigenous australians regularly experience racism.
But when we read about the aussies we find that they are mostly kind, and caring for one another (and this is usually true), but according to research done by the University of West Sydney this is because they have a culture of denial towards racism with sentences like "this does not happen here" "no one discriminates by race in this country" (we can relate to this in Chile, a lot) and the problem with the denial of this acts is that perpetuates racist behaviour, on the other hand speaking up reduces it since it's perpetrators understand that their views are in the minority, making them less likely to engage in prejudice and stereotyping behaviour, so don't deny it, speak up when you see racism near you.
And now on the lighter side of things, I'll leave a short song so you can comment it and discuss:
You're right, that's a reality, even en 21st century people still believing that there are different ''levels'' of people, all because their economic status, their skin colour, or their born places. And is for both sides.
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