Racism can either be really easy to see or really hard to recognise, especially if you’re not the victim. Racism can happen anywhere, in the public society, at your own home, and a lot at schools. Today I will be talking about racism at schools. Anyone can be racist or experience racism at any point in your life whether you are a student, teacher, parent, office staff etc. Racism is present in majority of Australian schools. Direct racism can be seen in incidents of racist abuse, harassment and discrimination. Racism is also established indirectly, in the form of unfair attitudes, lack of recognition of cultural diversity and cultural practices. The main effects of racism are name calling, teasing, exclusion, verbal abuse and bullying
Other Effects of racism in schools could cause the victim to be afraid of going to school, have trouble studying and concentrating in class, avoid school completely, Feel anxious and unhappy, and have trouble making friends, not speak their first language in fear of being teased or picked on and many more. Racism also leads to violence. Violence associated with racism occurs in Australian schools, either as part of the racist harassment or in retaliation to it. Different people take the racism and violence differently, sometimes it is just a little push and shove, other times It is stealing or property damage and fights between individual students. Because schools take an act of violence more seriously than bullying and name calling the schools tend to suspend The victim that used violence in a response to racism.
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Schoolyard beatings. Racist threats. Recent headlines show that one of the main problems that schools have had for decades is school violence. Violence in schools must be stopped for it is escalating and becoming more severe every year. Violence in schools may result in suicides, injuries to innocent students, and distraction from their school work. Bullying or intimidation is a form of violence ...
If schools do not investigate the cause of the violent behaviour, the result may be that the students who were being harassed in the first place can end up being more severely punished than the racist bullies. This has the effect of reinforcing the racist behaviour by apparently rewarding the bullies and punishing the victims. A national study has found that racism fills Australian schools, with 80 per cent of secondary students from non-white backgrounds and 55 per cent of students from white backgrounds saying they had experienced racial criticism. Students who attended a Catholic school were 1.7 times less likely to report experiences of racism than students going to government schools and Australian human right commission did a study which 89% of school kids aged from 13 to 17 have experienced racism
Australia has laws against racism, it is illgal to treat anyone unfairly, or to bully them because of there race, their culture, nationality or the colour of their skin. There are new campaigns to stop racism such as the ‘brotherblack’ rap videos, and the racism, no way campaign to educated people about racism. So next time when you go to say something racist think about how it affects the victim and how they feel about it.
