Racism in the Modern Society

written by Jr. GS Francheska Jalando-on

As far as we’ve progressed in society, racism has always been present and has gotten worse over the course of the years. To think that people would discriminate and shame other people just because they’re of a different color, have different eye shapes, with different cultural background, and even how their food smell is utterly stupid.

Last year, the Black Lives Matter movement made its mark across the world as the death of George Floyd and many others made people stand by each other to protest against the police brutality that black people experienced. Long before BLM started, black people have been discriminated far worse than today, without saying that the discrimination they experience today isn't bad too.

When the Covid-19 pandemic started, the racial discrimination against Asians have risen as people would blame them as if they were responsible for the virus, calling them names and racist remarks. And just recently, the death of the six Asian women who were attacked inside a spa has led to many other attacks on Asians or Asians in America, to be exact.

As for stereotypes of racists, a few examples are people thinking that Asians eat dogs and cats, that brown people smell, that black people are criminals and many more. Other racist things people do are pulling their eyes to imitate Asian eyes (fox-eye trend, taping the eyes back), people saying the N-word when they aren't black, calling Asians L and C (censored for reasons), doing cultural dances, mocking other people's accent, etc.

Doing these things are harmful to the people experiencing it and should not be the norm. I haven't experienced any sort of racism but as a person who has a platform to educate others about these things, I'll do my best to help out others and myself. If you don’t