Question

What constitutes and can be regarded as racial discrimination in one`s family, work place, and community?

Answer 1

Answer.

Racial discrimination is the social process of selective treatment either positive or negative towards an individual based on his or her skin colour. Thus, racial discrimination pertains to a variety of behaviour in multiple interpersonal settings where an individual’s behaviour revolves around the racial identity of the receiver of the actions. For instance, within a White American family, boycotting a family member who marries an Asian would be an act of racial discrimination as it would mean that the family members do not accept close interpersonal relationships with people outside of their own racial in-group. Racial discrimination is more commonly noticed and reported in the work environment when candidates of the dominant White race are more likely to get appointed for executive jobs while a Black candidate with equal or higher qualification would be turned down merely because of his or her skin colour which is used to be a marker for his or her educational background.

Within the community, racial discrimination can take subtle forms such as when a neighbourhood community protests and bars the local real estate agents from selling property to immigrant families who are seen as ‘outsiders’ and racially inferior or ‘dangerous’ despite the fact that the potential buyers may be even wealthier and more educated than the average resident of the neighbourhood. In such a way, a family, a work organisation or a community maintains an exclusionary response to the groups which are identified as racially different from one’s own racial group.