I always thought i understood what racism was all about. I mean its pretty simple right, you have one man hating another because of his race, not really. During our last meeting we chose a topic(trunk) which we had to give the causes(roots) and the effects(branches). So i chose racism, and at first it was easy. We had a lot of effects listed such as stereotyping and segregation, but when it came to the causes i really didnt know where to start.
After a bit of thought i found myself in a tough situation. The way i had it was , the media is the one to blame. Well all the media wants to do is attract as many viewers as possible. So it seems that thats what the viewers enjoy and expect. So i still cant seem to understand why we expect these things out of our t.v shows and movies.
My questions to you is where did racism start, whats the best most narrow root cause of racism?