Race and Racism Expository Essay

Race and racism are real issues that we face today in society. Today, young people are not as racist as the previous generation but they still feel more comfortable with their own race. This means that racism is slowly fading away as newer generations come by. There is also a difference on how genders experience race and racism as well. People nowadays feel more comfortable with their own race rather than other races, mostly because of stereotypical thoughts, not racism thoughts.

In this generation, most parents do not like it when their kids are involved in an interracial relationship. They tend to want their kids to date someone their own race. A lot of young people nowadays now about this, so they stick with their own race. Though, this seems to be more stricter towards daughters rather than sons. Some parents believe that everyone one in a race will act somewhat the same or will do the same actions, they will have stereotypical thoughts. This does get annoying at times but it is what our world has come to right now. Talking about interracial relationships, this reminds me of a scene in the movie Holes. There was this scene where a white teacher named Katherine rejected the town's richest man named Trout because she kind of liked a black man named Sam. When someone saw Sam kiss Katherine, the school was burned down and Sam was chased down until he was shot all because he was black and Katherine was white. Even though this does not include parents in it, it is still something today's young people do not have to worry about anymore.

Furthermore, young people today feel more comfortable with their own race rather than with other races. In a school cafeteria, there are always groups of students of the same race such as, Hispanic people sitting with the Hispanic people and African American people sitting with African American people. Though, this is not always the case, it still happens. This probably mainly happens because today, young people are very stereotypical, and they are very naive. We young people today were not around when the Civil Rights Movement happened so we have no idea what racism actually is, thanks to the Civil Rights Movements that is. All that is left now is stereotypical thoughts rather than racism thoughts in today's generation of young people.

All in all, racism seems to be slowly fading away as newer generations come by but stereo typical people will always stick around. Also, young people feel more comfortable with their own race rather than with other races because they are somewhat naive and sometimes stereotypes. Additionally, there is also a difference on how genders experience race and racism, problems with parents and kids, mainly daughters, with interracial dating is an example. We young people today have yet to know what racism really is, we are still naive. It is just how our world has come to now.