Racism

Racism: What Tells The Dictionary

What the dictionary says about racism. Do we have to rethink what the dictionary should say about racism? What can we learn from it?

Agnes Laurens
The Life Essence
Published in
2 min readJun 8, 2020

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I thought, starting to learn more about racism by looking at what the dictionary says about racism, as I know little about it.

Racism is being underrated by a lot of people, including me. With all the situations going in the world, it is my duty, as a human being taking part in the world, to understand, to know, and participate in not being a racist.

So, I start first by knowing what racism means and what racism is by hearing stories from those being in it and faced through it. Then you understand what people feel, then you understand the underlying problem of racism, just to open a conversation that is really needed; to go further in this problem. And take the action we have to and black people want us to.

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, racism means

the belief that people’s qualities are influenced by their race and that the members of other races are not as good as the members of your own or the resulting unfair treatment of members of other races.

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Agnes Laurens
The Life Essence

Agnes Laurens is a writer. She writes for the local newspaper. Agnes lives in The Netherlands, with three daughters. https://linktr.ee/alaurens