Rising Racism and Anti-Semitism: A Brief Glance

Authors : Türkkaya ATAÖV

Pages : 77-87

Doi:10.1501/Intrel_0000000210

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Publication Date : 1992-05-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Racism and the discrimination accompanying it had always been instrumenıs of oppression and justification for exploitation. Colonialism and imperialism used these concepts to advocate the superiority of certain races and tried to `prove right` their tyrannies. It is well-known that the early insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(1933); laws of the Nazi regime in Germany were only the beginnings of the genocide which followed. Later events proved that racism could not be confined to a single country and that it vvas, by its very nature, a threat to international peace as vvell. The present confrontations around racism and discrimination have also acquired serious proportions. Violence based on real or attempted discrimination is stili among the most explosive phenomena of our times. Racism and its accompanying consequences stili affect a number of peoples on account of the colour of their skins and/or national, ethnic or religious origins. The native peoples in the Americas, Australia, parts of Asia and northern Europe have less right than others. Discrimination is the common denominator in the cases of the Amerindiano, the Mayas insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Guatemala);, the Miskitos insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Nicaragua);, the Inuit insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Canada);, the Adivasis insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Bangladesh);, the aborigines of Australia, the Sami insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Lapland); and the like.  
Keywords : Rising Racism, Anti Semitism, Brief Glance