Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Relaciones Internacionales
PRODUCTO INTEGRADOR DE APRENDIZAJE
Docente: Anahí Tamez
Alumna: Sofia Borghes Acosta
Matricula: 1830699
Grupo: 309
November 13th, 2019
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Understanding Racism: Definition, Types, and Elimination, Study notes of Communication
An in-depth analysis of racism, its definition, types, and the international efforts to eliminate it. Based on a university document from the universidad autónoma de nuevo león, facultad de ciencias políticas y relaciones internacionales, and discusses the anthropological, political, and scientific aspects of racism. The document also highlights the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination and its significance in combating racism.
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- What international convention was established to combat racism?
- What is racism according to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination?
- What are the two types of racism discussed in the document?
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Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Relaciones Internacionales
PRODUCTO INTEGRADOR DE APRENDIZAJE
Docente: Anahí Tamez
Alumna: Sofia Borghes Acosta
Matricula: 1830699
Grupo: 309
November 13th, 2019
RACISM
Racism, according to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy, is an exacerbated feeling of the "racial sense" of an ethnic group, which usually causes discrimination or persecution against other ethnic groups. The word also designates the anthropological doctrine or political ideology based on that feeling.According to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization on December 21, 1965 , the doctrine of superiority based on racial differentiation is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous, and nothing in theory or in practice allows racial discrimination to be justified anywhere. The first article of the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination (1965) defines racism as: Any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on motives of race, color, lineage or national or ethnic origin that has as its object or by result nullify or impair the recognition, enjoyment or exercise in conditions of equality, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other sphere of public life. There are authors who propose to distinguish between racism in a broad sense of racism in a narrow sense. In the first case, it would be an ethnocentric or sociocentric attitude that separates one's own group from that of others, and that it considers that both are constituted by hereditary and immutable essences that make others, others, unacceptable and threatening beings. This conception of others would lead to their segregation, discrimination, expulsion or extermination and could be based on scientific, religious ideas or mere legends or traditional feelings. It also affirms the intellectual and moral superiority of some races over others, superiority that is maintained with racial purity and is ruined by miscegenation. This type of racism, whose model is Nazi and Western racism in general, leads to defending the natural right of the superior races to impose themselves on the inferior ones Racism in a narrow sense is a scientific-looking doctrine that affirms the biological determination hereditary of the intellectual and