Racism is a worldwide social problem that was developed through prejudice and ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism is the belief or assumption that your own cultural and/or societal group is the most superior. Some people believe that Caucasians are considered the most superior race because they have used racism and ethnocentrism to mold this belief. In the book "Who Do We Think We Are? Race and Nation in the Modern World," written by Philip Yale Nicholson, he …showed first 75 words of 1306 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1306 total…group has the same intellectual potentialities. Ideologically, race is only a social concept provided that ethnic group identify with there own. Our skin color, hair color, eye shape, and other physical and facial attribute are accountable for racial profiling. The only reason why we still use racial identification is in order to put groups in terms of labels. So until we, as humans, can look beyond racial line, racism will continue to influence us everyday.