Define Quite Racism?

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Answer 1

Would put the CLOSE sign up as soon as black people are coming.

Give you change at the store but does not want your hand to touch theirs. - it's happened so many times and it's so funny.

Answer 2

"Quiet racism" in my mind is behaviour that isn't outwardly discriminatory.  We don't do it on purpose, but rather because we don't know better.  Assumptions that we fail to question; small, seemingly inoffensive stereotypes that we help to propagate; insensitivity due to ignorance.

I think an example would be assuming that African-Americans are better at basketball, or perhaps questioning whether someone of Asian descent can speak English without an accent (even if they were born here).  At a deeper level, someone might have friends of different races, yet being uncomfortable with their daughters marrying someone of that race.

The upside of this is that we can learn to be more sensitive to issues of race.

Answer 3

Everyone has experienced this in one form or another. I would compare this to sexual fantasies. Everyone thinks about it, but only the minority does it.

Answer 4

Racism, by its simplest definition, is discrimination based on race. One with racist beliefs might hate certain groups of people according to their race (i.e., bigotry), or in the case of institutional racism, certain racial groups may be denied rights or benefits. Racism typically starts with, though is rarely confined to the assumption that there are taxonomic differences between different groups of people. Prejudices on other grounds would strictly categorize as discrimination to national or regional origin, religion, occupation, social status or some other distinction.