Racial segregation: racism in Ecuador
Introduction
Racial discrimination is an event that is lived day by day by obstructing the progress of thousands of people worldwide. Racism influences different forms: from the disbelief of rights to the impulse of abhorrence, this type of exclusion is commonly given in different contexts, but the most ordinary are in employment, education, housing and vote. The aforementioned can ruin lives and fragment societies.
In the agreement to rule out all types of racial discrimination solemnized by the nation joined in 1963, racism is known as: all distinction, exclusion, restriction, or preference based on motives of race, color, lineage or national or ethnic origin that hasBy object or as a result or impairing recognition, enjoyment or exercise, in conditions of equality, rights and freedoms.
Developing
We often establish racism only with the most violent actions of racial disapproval, however, as we can see in the concept, it appears through other situations that the population preserves as usual and this causes a tangible difference in a defined urban sector, such as containing aethnic principle or cultural qualities that differ from the rest.
We can classify racism in:
- Institutional racism. – It is based on laws or institutions that belittle different people for their roots.
- Cultural racism. – Focus on a premise cultural advantage of one tribe over another.
- Biological racism. – emphasizes the predominance of genetics above intelligence.
- Racism based on skin color. – A disagreement and contempt of people of different skin tone is evidenced.
- Colorism. – It consists in excluding people who show very noticeable features of their roots.
The most common is racism based on skin color, this has been evidencebe the first black general of Ecuador. This purpose is imperfect, since he confronted a discriminating standard in the category of Ecuadorian Armed Forces (FFAA).
In the Esmile the delegate tutor of instructing foundations of military discipline held him to a range of despicable skills that had as a carrier the ethnic group of Michael. For the teacher, Arce was not welcome to the Esmil.
This experience marked Michael’s life and his mother greater intensity, so they decided to denounce it is made before the Ombudsman’s Office. This corporation is based on protecting and guaranteeing human rights in Ecuador. After receiving the demand from the military, they opposed stating that all Arce’s discontent was because he could not overcome the evidence of military life.
The Ecuadorian justice system proceeded to a systematic pattern of racism that impacts the Ecuadorian Afro and the indigenous people of different nationalities, the law dictates that “acts of moral or physical violence of hate, contempt or discrimination against one or more people inReason for its nationality, ethnicity, place of birth, age, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation, cultural identity, marital status, language, religion, ideology, socioeconomic condition, disability or health status, will be sanctioned with imprisonment.one to three years ".
Another of the most listened cases at the national level is that of Mae Montaño, who told his experience and proclaim that “what is lived in the family nucleus is very important. I remember that she had a white friend, whose family said she was not racist and accepted me at home, but stopped being "non -racist" when my friend fell in love with an Ecuadorian Afro.
That affected me because racism came out. Many people say they are not racist, but when their daughter or son / or relates to a black, they realize that they are. ". Antipathy attacks not only damage the victim’s lifestyle but to the social class that he belongs, remembering his insecurity in the face of this type of attack.
conclusion
Discrimination prevention is a great tool to avoid all forms of intolerance and discrimination. ‘Education is the best tool at our disposal to prevent all forms of intolerance and discrimination and to ensure equal respect for each woman and every man’. The UN Secretary asked the different countries that they have not yet done so that they approve the agreement against racism and knew that “in the last 50 years there has been progress in the fight against racism and racial discrimination.
We have seen the end of colonialism, the dismantling of apartheid and a global movement for equality. However, as history and today attest, racial discrimination still presents real danger ”.
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