Racism and prejudice in the world today

Hitler and the Jews, Apartheid in South Africa all conflicts that originated from some sort of racism. Turmoil in Ireland, war in kosovo all ethnic conflicts. Ever since the beginning of time people have been plagued by racism and ethnic conflicts due to minor differences ranging from religion to appearances. When we talk about racism we think of discrimination and prejudice based on race and when we hear ethnic conflict we think of conflict and …

…conflict has caused. We also see how much weight a simple emotion as fear can carry. We see the obvious difference racism and ethnic conflict has, but we also see the awful similarities that they have. We know why it exists and how to solve the problem but does the solution out weigh the means? Is the solution that hard to accept? Is it worth seeing the loss of human life? Is there an answer?