Race Discrimination Basics

If we define Race Discrimination it is when acommunities of the first nation are provided with
person is treated different or unequally becauseadditional special laws that allow people to
he belongs to a certain racial group. The saddestpreserve their culture and traditions. As for the
fact about racial discrimination is that it can occurcolored people and immigrants, the Chinese and
in many different situationsthe black people who were brought to Canada as
If we define Race Discrimination it is when acheap working force or slaves gained their rights
person is treated different or unequally becausein 1793 by the Act Against Slavery and in 1923
he belongs to a certain racial group. The saddestby the Chinese Immigration Act. Both of these
fact about racial discrimination is that it can occuracts can be considered to be the early
in many different situations. A person can becornerstones of equality, nevertheless the slavery
treated unequally on his working place (or whileproblem was not as big in Canada as it was in the
attempting to get a job), harassed duringUnited States.
education, have problems with finding a home or 
unequally treated by the police. As for the moreThe thirds type of racial discrimination is related to
serious things the person can receive bad servicemodern world problems like terrorism or other
as customer, receive a refusal to extend creditconflicts. For example the recent scandals
and even have problems at voting. Like Orwellconnected to banning Israeli Academics from
said “all animals are equal, but some animals areteaching in Canadian universities. The whole issue
more equal than other”.had nothing to do with racial issues and was
 targeted against the Israeli foreign politics, but in
In most of the civilized countries the rights of anythe end it came up as a racial discrimination
person are protected, but sometimes they areagainst Jewish people. Also after the 9/11 and the
protected only after the discrimination alreadyterrorism issues the Arabic people became a
happened. Racism lies deep in the minds of peopletarget of minor racial discrimination. All these
and humanity will need decades to get over it.cases of racial discrimination can be explained by
 the fact that people are sometimes too scarred
In Canada the race discriminatio problems can beby the mass-media and very often mass-media
divided into three main types: the problems withtwists the facts to make them more scandalous,
aboriginal people, the problems with emigrants andnaturally that leads to misunderstanding. Also
the recent racial issues.there are some modern day race discrimination
 issues with emigrants, like the infamous case
Like in the United States the aboriginal peoplewhen a Polish emigrant was shocked to death
suffered big losses during colonization and what iswith tasers in Toronto Airport, because the
worse they were a target of a partial ethnicalsecurity couldn’t communicate with him.
genocide even during the 20th century. But in theThis case shows that even the people who
modern days there are more and more laws thatrepresent the law can’t guarantee equal
give more rights to aboriginal people. Today thetreatment during a critical situation.