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    the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to physical

    appearance and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another.[1][2][3][4] It may also
    mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against other people because they are of a
    different race or ethnicity.[2][3] Modern variants of racism are often based in social perceptions of
    biological differences between peoples. These views can take the form of social actions, practices or
    beliefs, or political systems in which different races are ranked as inherently superior or inferior to
    each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities. [2][3][5]
    In terms of political systems (e.g., apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in
    discriminatory practices or laws, racist ideology may include associated social aspects such
    as nativism, xenophobia, otherness, segregation, hierarchical ranking, and supremacism.
    While the concepts of race and ethnicity are considered to be separate in contemporary social
    science, the two terms have a long history of equivalence in popular usage and older social science
    literature. "Ethnicity" is often used in a sense close to one traditionally attributed to "race": the
    division of human groups based on qualities assumed to be essential or innate to the group (e.g.
    shared ancestry or shared behavior). Therefore, racism and racial discrimination are often used to
    describe discrimination on an ethnic or cultural basis, independent of whether these differences are
    described as racial. According to a United Nations convention on racial discrimination, there is no
    distinction between the terms "racial" and "ethnic" discrimination. The UN Convention further
    concludes that superiority based on racial differentiation is scientifically false, morally condemnable,
    socially unjust and dangerous. The Convention also declared that there is no justification for racial
    discrimination, anywhere, in theory or in practice.[6]
    Racism is a relatively modern concept, arising in the European age of imperialism, the subsequent
    growth of capitalism, and especially the Atlantic slave trade,[1] of which it was a major driving force.
    [7]
     It was also a major force behind racial segregation especially in the United States in the nineteenth
    and early twentieth centuries and South Africa under apartheid; 19th and 20th century racism
    in Western culture is particularly well documented and constitutes a reference point in studies and
    discourses about racism.[8] Racism has played a role in genocides such as the Holocaust,
    the Armenian genocide, and genocide of Serbs, and colonial projects including the
    European colonization of the Americas, Africa, and Asia as well as the Soviet deportations of
    indigenous minorities.[9] Indigenous peoples have been—and are—often subject to racist attitudes.

    Contents

     1Etymology, definition and usage


    o 1.1Legal
    o 1.2Social and behavioral sciences
    o 1.3Humanities
    o 1.4Popular usage
     2Aspects
    o 2.1Aversive racism
    o 2.2Color blindness
    o 2.3Cultural
    o 2.4Economic
    o 2.5Institutional
    o 2.6Othering
    o 2.7Racial discrimination
    o 2.8Racial segregation
    o 2.9Supremacism
    o 2.10Symbolic/modern
    o 2.11Subconscious biases
     3International law and racial discrimination
     4Ideology
     5Ethnicity and ethnic conflicts
    o 5.1Ethnic and racial nationalism
     6History
    o 6.1Ethnocentrism and proto-racism
    o 6.2Limpieza de sangre
    o 6.319th century
    o 6.420th century
    o 6.5Contemporary
     7Scientific racism
    o 7.1Heredity and eugenics
    o 7.2Polygenism and racial typologies
    o 7.3Human zoos
     8Theories about the origins of racism
     9State-sponsored racism
     10Anti-racism
     11See also
     12References and notes
     13Further reading
     14External links

    Etymology, definition and usage

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