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My name is Riri and I am 15 years old. I'm Japanese and I'am living in Switzerland. I love skiing, horse riding and Eton Fives.

Racism and Sexism 人種差別について

My Opinion about racism and sexism. 

I think racism and sexsim are boths awful thing that is happening in the world right now, and these are both values the same importance in my opinion.   

 
 

These two things can hurts people in the same way but different types. Racism is a form of discrimination based on your race, and especially the belief that one race is above or superior to other ones. And Sexism is the discrimination based on sex or gender. A lot of people think, racism and sexism can be happen and they take very easy about it, but I don't think that is a good idea to do and I do not take this two things easy. Because us, people thinks racism and sexism are such a small things and we cannot help it. But I think if everyone in the world try, even if it little try to see people equal and try to respect all the skin color and genders.   

 
 

I always wish all the sexism and racism can released from all the people and all the people can stop to pretend that they didn't see the discrimination around the world. It is very easy to say and tell to the people to stop the discrimination about races, religions and the genders, but I know that is actually very difficult to change something.   

 
 

I asked myself what is racism and sexism? And why does it happen? 

I was thinking about this questions for more than 3 days, and surprisingly I realized a small things during when I was eating a M&M. Racism is just like choosing not to eat green M&M just because they are green, even though inside they look just like same and taste like others. I didn't realize till I finished whole the package of M&M except green ones, I didn't mean anything I just though they tasted worse than others because green is not my favourite color, even though they do really taste exactly the same.  So I found out that racism is actually happening a lot around you whether you realized or not, and sometimes you do not really mean it.  

     

Who really are are find it inside not only a label of race or gender.  I asked myself again, who would you be, if world never didn't give you a label?  Would I be a black? Would I be a white? Would I be Japanese? Would I be Mexican? Or Would I be a Russian? And my answer is "no, I would be 1 all together".  from the15th century people started to label people and people became blind to seen person who they really are. And then we start to see people different and it made to start a war, and therefore every war started from labels. It always us vs them and why war happens, it because of racism sexism and other a lot of  "ism". 

 
 

Racism and sexism happens in the world because we are thought to call them black or white.  Gay or lesbian, along with whatever you called yourself it is just a label. If we can stop to put our-self and put others in the label I think we can stop, racism, sexism, other "ism" and a war.