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Outline Neoracism
1) Introduction
a) Good afternoon to you all. My name is Eddie Chang and Ill let you in on a little
secret. I hate my last name. Chang.
i) What do you think about when you hear that word? Replace the a in
Chang with an i and we can go on and on with racist jokes. You hear my
first name, Eddie, and youd be first inclined to think about Eddie Murphy
or Eddie Bauer or maybe even Prince Edward Island in Canada.
(1) You can already insinuate certain characteristics about me because of my
last name and discerning the fact that Im Asian leads to many
assumptions about those certain characteristics.
b) Those listening may think that Im going to talk about racism because it is
something that has affected the lives of people like me, but its not the good ol
normal racism Im perplexed with. To be honest, at this school, I dont receive
any cruel discrimination or even think about it in my daily life. Its just there.
However, I have begun to note a different mindset in the racial category. In the
changing dynamic world of today, I am concerned with neo-racism.
i) Neo-racism whats that? It, without a doubt, sounds like futuristic type
racism, but it doesnt deal with the races that we all are familiar with on a dayto-day basis. Racism, as a word and ideology, has existed for numerous
centuries and many of us would like to assume that racism or discrimination
has existed for as long as humans have existed. However, in the age of today,
we have given birth to another form of racism, alongside its predecessor, that
not only concerns itself with races, but also other parts of our daily lives that
change with us every passing day.
2) Body
a) Racism, not only exists as a theoretical phenomenon, but also as a truly social and
historical one. With racism we have forms of violence, contempt, intolerance,
humiliation, and exploitation surrounding the stigma of others such as name, skin
color, or religious practices. It arose first from the mimicry of scientific discourse
in alluding that there is visible or biological evidence to characterize racist
doctrines as truth and fact. A certain race of individuals believed it to be
scientifically posited that one was superior than the other and used demagogic
theoretical elaborations for their benefit, disparaging the other race carrying those
stigmata across their physical being.
i) The existence of slavery has marked itself in many countries history and the
embodiment of slavery is the easiest indicator of the racism were used to.
ii) In our age of modern education, we look back at history and condemn these
quack scientific assumptions, knowing that they were intentionally mandated.
We establish antiracist beliefs in the hopes that we can be appreciative of all
races rather than being close-minded peers. Somewhere along the lines of
violent desire for immediate knowledge of social relations and the propensity
to misrecognize those true social relations, we must be wary of newly formed
metaphysics between the ways we view each other.