page_title: Racism
section_title: Racism and Colonialism
hierarchical_section_title: Racism / Racist ideologies / Racism and Colonialism
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context_page_description: Racism is the belief in the natural superiority of one race over another. It may mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against other people because they are of a different race or ethnicity.
  Racism can also used to describe the social, legal, cultural, economic, and political processes that are a result of those beliefs.
  During the Holocaust, Nazis in Germany believed that some races did not even deserve to exist. These beliefs were racist. Because of those beliefs, they killed many people who belonged to those races. Those actions, which resulted from their racist beliefs, were also racist.
  Racism has existed throughout human history. It has caused wars, slavery, the creation of nations, and laws. However, racism has never been the only cause of wars and slavery. Leaders often used racism to make their actions seem all right. For example, the Nazis used the idea that Slavic peoples were less than human to make it seem all right to take over those people's countries or the idea of African Americans were less than them.
context_section_description: When Europeans came to America, they killed thousands of Native Americans and when the European settlers got to Australia, they started killing off large numbers of Aborigines.
  With the birth of their empires, many other native tribes suffered in Canada,  New Zealand, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.
  Japan also held similar beliefs about Chinese and Koreans in their colonies.
caption: The Australians are now making efforts to help the Aborigines, who they once discriminated against, long ago.
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