This document discusses racism and provides suggestions to confront it. Racism is defined as the conscious or unconscious belief that a particular race is superior. It can lead to domination and negatively impact attitudes and behaviors. Racism stems from various sources like family, education, social groups, and media. Specific acts of racism are described in schools, among friends, and in the workplace. To confront racism, the document suggests raising children with principles of dignity and equality, strengthening education to objectively present history and develop empathy, and ensuring fair workplace practices and media representation. An optimistic message is that focusing on people's character rather than appearance can help overcome racism.

1. ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Lesson : English V
Professor : Irene
Chioti;Leskovic
Students: Nikola Tore – 2100325
Dimitris Rompogiannakis
December 2012
RACISM
Lesson : English V
Professor : Irene
Chiotis-Leskovic
Students: Nikola Tore - 2100325
Dimitris Rompogiannakis - 2100208
December 2012
RACISM

2. Purpose
Our purpose is to point out some situations that
occur because of prejudge and to make aware of
the fact that… a more human behavior is possible

3. Outline
1. Discrimination of racism
2. Racial discrimination
3. Social institutions – Roles
4. Family
5. Education – School
6. Media
7. Issues – Suggestions
8. Issues occurring in:
9. Social Groups
10. Workplace
11. Suggestions
12. Optimistic message
13. Bibliography

4. Racism
The conscious or unconscious belief that a particular race is
superior to another.
Consequences:
A “superior” race abusively exercises power over and
dominates the ones considered “inferior” and, secondly, the
racist acts and norms affect both the attitude and the behavior
of people and groups.

5. OTHER KINDS OF DISCRIMINATION
Racial  Social
Cultural  Religious
 …and many more…

6. SOURCES OF RACISM
Family Education
Social groups Project groups
Media

7. • Family
▫ Bad behavior against children
▫ Isolation from society
▫ Teaching wrong principles
 Sense of inequality
 Absence of kind feelings
 Lack of respect
 Form of stereotypical discriminations among different races

8. • Education
▫ Historical facts are presented according to each
nation’s interests and not as they really took place.
▫ Distorted views on certain races are promoted and
received.
▫ Incapability on forming right behavioral standards in a
social group.

9. • Social groups
▫ In Search of Similarity.
▫ Discrimination because of certain habits.
▫ Nationalism – Fundamentalism.
▫ Social isolation of people who belong to an
“inferior” race.

10. • Project groups
▫ Unequal rights in:
 Participation in duties
 Participation in decision making about basic issues
▫ Indecent criteria
 Evaluation
 Reward
• Media
▫ Content of communicated messages is not controlled
▫ Focus on making profit without considering the effects
on the people’s lives.

11. Acts of Racism
• At schools
Choosing a classmate to sit with based on where
he/she is from or what’s the color of his/her skin.
• Among friends
Avoiding foreigners because of a fear caused by wrong
perspectives about certain countries.

12. • At workplace
▫ Sometimes employers discriminate among candidates
for a job (“I don’t want foreigners in my business” or
“they are not qualified”).
▫ Native employees act in an unfriendly way against
foreigners and are reluctant to cooperate on
performing duties.

13. • In everyday life
▫ At the park: “We should not go this way because there
are so many immigrants and we may get robbed” or
“Some black people have been sitting there, I’m not”.
▫ On the bus: We (natives) and they (foreigners) are
seated separately because we are afraid we might get
robbed.

14. “A Life Without Racism”
Smiles at school

15. Smiles at workplace

16. Smiles and harmony in social groups

17. Happy and balanced everyday life

18. Confronting the Issue
• Raising a child (Family)
▫ Principles: Imparting principles to the children in an
early age (dignity, love, caring, avoiding stereotypes)
▫ Standards: Avoiding discrimination during the initial
socialization of the children and showing good
manners to “different” people, especially in front of the
children

19. • Strengthening the role of education
▫ Objective presentation of historical facts
concerning the relationship between two nations.
▫ Focus on developing a sense of equality
(sympathy and compassion for others)

20. • Management at the workplace
▫ Avoiding discrimination during the process of
selection and evaluation of the employees, judging
by qualifications and skills rather than by
nationality or skin color.
▫ Building a culture which promotes teamwork,
respect and family values.

21. • Proper use of media
▫ Ban of provoking commercials with racist content
▫ Ban of shows that promote wrong behavioral
standards.
▫ Projecting documentaries that aim at the elimination
of race related stereotypes and make us concern for
others

22. Pay attention to the soul of people, not to their appearance.
You may have the same character.

24. Bibliography
 Quotegarden.com
 Biography.com
 Goodreads.com
 Wikipedia.com
 Our knowledge

25. Thank you for your time!
The End
Look for the inside
of humans,
not the outside…