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Running head: PERSONAL VISION FOR SOCIETY
PERSONAL VISION FOR SOCIETY
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The aim of this essay is to discuss the personal view of the society which is highly
impregnated by the differences among the people thus affecting the personal understanding and
social integration. These differences mainly immerge from the factors of race, ethnicity, class,
gender, religion, sexuality, place of birth, language, disability and many more. Since the early
ages, these factors of society have created boundaries and prevented people to mix with one
another freely and share their thoughts for the betterment of the society of the world. As these
differences among the people in this civilized societies around the globe have affected the lives
and actions of other, either victimizing them or making them evil to destroy others, the socialists
from historical time have been finding solutions of these problems. To Delgado and Stefancic
(2017), several, concepts and theories have been developed within the sociology of race and
ethnicity which scholarly response to the problems experienced by the people of world
historically and in the present.
In order to understand the true nature of racism, different types of racism are to be
understood. There are mainly three factors from which the issues of racism actually originate.
These include, cultural racism, religious and biological racism. This essay will be discussing the
theories of ethnicity and the dynamics of ethnic change in multiethnic societies that includes
critical race theory, structural factionalism, conflict theory and symbolic interaction theory for
understanding political economy approach to race and ethnicity. My personal view about
different settings and values in the understanding of others have greatly influenced by these
differences (Bonilla-Silva, 2015). Therefore, holding my experiences as the test case, I shall be
analyzing these theories so that better method to face these issues can be found out.
As I have mentioned before, my understanding of race, ethnicity and cultural differences
have been formed from the schools and college. As the resident of a multicultural society, I have

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seen many prejudiced visions, references and actions that has affected others in a critically
negative way. I have witnessed the bullying mentality of persons who really brag for this higher
class and race than the others. They garb the facilities on the basis of their ethnicity and
subordinated others to follow their power. In order to understand the true nature of racism,
different types of racism are to be understood. There are mainly three factors from which the
issues of racism actually originate. These include, cultural racism, religious racism and
biological racism. In my whole life I have come across all three types of racism in any way and
all the experiences were beyond my expectation in a negative way.
The religious racism, is based on the religious believes and leads to the religious
discrimination. This is the treatment of the persons and groups differently because of the values
and beliefs based on different religions. This includes the adherences of the different religions
differently and promoting the own religion to be the superiors than the others. In this regard, the
persons of one particular religion intentionally deprive the people of other religious
communities. in some of the non-religious organizations I have seen that the people of other
region are treated unequally for their beliefs and values. Religious discrimination is related to
religious persecution, the most extreme forms of which would include instances in which people
have been executed for beliefs perceived to be heretic (Matsuda, 2018). The religious racism is
spread in each part of the world. I have come across the news that in the Asian countries the
problems of religious racism are much more active where there are political parties present to
support the religious discrimination and the people of higher castes and religious superiority get
more opportunity than the others. In the countries like India, the lower caste people are
discriminated in one hand and exploited greatly on the other.

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The biological racism is another term for scientific racism. Based on this view, the issues
of white racism or gaining power as well as accumulation has been started by the white people
around the world. Despite the fact that these all factors are related with the superiority of the
culture and ideology of the white people of Europe. After the First World War, the theory of
white biological superiority began to be demised by the protests of the colonies in one hand and
scholarly communities of most of the European countries. Through the intellectual progress of
the new generation white people, other cultural and psychological theories emerged. The cultural
racism on the other hand is the most prominent one where the people of different cultures focus
on their superiority and discriminate the other. In some times, the cultural suppression leads to
the extinction of culture.
We in this era of globalization have grown up surrounded by the images of stereotypes as
well as casual expressions of racism and prejudice and this situation is getting worse as despite
of having all the possibility to get connected with the other culture or race and get information
about them, we do not feel conformation. Therefore, the issues of racism remain in our specifies
as the it is impossible to know to what extent they have influenced our thought processes. In
understanding this aspect of power execution on the basis of ethnicity and race, the critical race
theory can be discussed (Banton, 2018). This particular theory is a critical framework in the
social sciences to examine cultural categorization of law, race and power. According to
Camfield, (2016), this particular framework, racism is considered to be engrained in the fabric as
well as system of the civilized societies of the world. This frame work identifies that the power
structure actually remains in one particular section of the society mainly dependent on the
complexion and pace origin of the people. In this regard I can connect the issues of white
privilege and their supremacy in every section of the society in a multicultural framework of