A person who is born in Africa is different to a person born in the Pacific because of these things. Yet the thing they have in common is that they develop their personal and cultural identity based on the unique language, customs, symbols and events that surrounds them. We are going to look at personal and cultural identity through racism and gender issues. The belief that human races have distinctive characteristics which determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one's own culture is superior and has the right to dominate others. 2. offensive and aggressive behaviour to members of another race stemming from such a belief.
Racism is constructed by humans.
It is the process that is important, not the presence or absence of 'objective' race differences. Stereotyping These racial categories are assumed to have particular significance for the development of culture. The categories are assumed to be a reflection of real genetic differences between races, which are sufficient to generate different cultural characteristics. So, for example, a racist would not only characterise Black Americans as being of low IQ, but would argue that this is caused by genetic factors. Evaluating The racial groups are then evaluated on the basis of these assumed genetically determined characteristics.