PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Symbolic Racism
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Gave a very famous speech; dreamed of a day when people of all colours and creeds would be judged as equals. It was a speech that improved racial rights. His dream has not become a reality yet. Today people are still judged by the colour of their skin, their clothing, their hair etc. Rwandan genocide, 190 000 people killed in 90 days. Two trival groups hutus and tootsies, the tootsies were slaughtered and killed with machetes and knives. Although they looked similar and spoke the same language they were still killed. Indonesian riots; the largest target of the violence were ethnic chinese people, who were targeted by the masses. They thought that it would influence terrorism, the society had a fear of muslims. A plan to build a mosque, lead to the dispute among the society. A man even threatened that he would hold pig races to offend races.
