Mark Mathabanes Kaffir Boy

Kaffir Boy Webster dictionary defines racism as “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits an capacities and that racial differences produce and inherent superiority of a particular race”. Racism has run rampant throughout the world for a very long time, and still lingers very strongly today. The racist ideologies “claim that biological factors explain and even justify inequalities between racial and ethnic group” and because people have a way to convince themselves that what they are thinking or the way they act towards people is somehow acceptable, racism will never go away. In today’s world racism can be viewed exactly as it has been throughout history even back to its origins. It is used as a tool to justify actions against a group of people. We most often see this with
In Mark Mathabanes Kaffir Boy the problems of racist ideologies are displayed through his own experiences of growing up as a black man in South Africa during the apartheid. The most common racist ideology that was represented in the book was prejudice. Prejudice is a rigid and unfavorable judgment about a group that does not change in the face of contradictory evidence and applies to anyone who shares the distinguishing characteristics of the group. This can be found everywhere in the world in every single person for some kind of ethnicity or race or gender. It is impossible not to have any prejudices because they are subconsciously forced into us, however not everyone has to act on them. Prejudice is based on the idea of stereotypes, or an unrealistic generalization of a group of people