Types of Racism

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For Students Grades 4 and Up
Presented by the Chinese Canadian National Council - For Social Justice (CCNC-SJ)

This video is a part of a series to help students learn about racism in Canada and how to fight it in their communities! If you can, try to start from the beginning and check them out in order!

This learning series covers these topics:
Understanding Race and Racism (Video and Poster)
Types of Racism (Video)
Racism and Other Forms of Discrimination (Video)
Impacts of Racism (Video)
Racism Towards Chinese Communities in Canada (Poster)
Racism Towards Black Communities in Canada (Poster)
Racism Towards Indigenous Communities in Canada (Poster)
Fighting Racism: It Isn't Always Easy (Video)
Fighting Racism: What Can You Do? (Video)
Fighting Racism: Let’s Practice! (Poster)
Becoming an Ally (Poster)

This learning series was made by teachers with the support of students, families, organizations and members from Indigenous, Black and Chinese communities. This project is funded by the Government of Canada.

[gamingwithks]

Stop racism im an indian in india there is upper class and lower cast im of a lower class but people in the upper class dont behave well to me😓

[redscorpion]

People I grew up with in high school assumed that because I'm Hispanic and born in Mexico, I was going to be deported back to Mexico when Trump took office! My parents couldn't vote at the time because we were just residents, not U.S. citizens. Me and my brother couldn't;t vote because of that and we were teenagers. Today, I am a U.S. citizen and I voted in 2020 along with my household! Saying who I voted for will cause racist tension and division because some people here may have voted for either Biden or Trump. I don't give a flying flick about who you voted for TBH, as long as you're genuinely nice (not necessarily politically correct but cool and fun to be with) and you don't agree with the bad policies of the candidate you voted for. Trump's national debt situation and his arrogance were very troubling, and Biden's inflation crisis and creepy behavior are horrifying! But what should we do if our ideal candidate does something we don't like. Call them? Visit them? Make a rant video about our disagreement with them on a certain thing? LMK.
The vaccine passport laws enacted by Democrats are arguably systemically racist, and inflation is systemically classist. The only people not affected are upper class elites! Everybody else, from working class to upper-middle class, is affected. Biden's approval from Latinos and black people is dropping pretty quickly given how horribly he's handled the economy and essentially making Trump's flaws even worse!
As a Hispanic, what my community also considers a racial slur is the neologism "Latinx". Most of us either have never heard of that word or if we have, dislike it! "Latinx" is stupid, disgraceful, imperialistic, and a mockery to the Latino community, and Democrats who call me a bigot for saying that ARE the real racist bigots who have no respect for my culture! I much rather prefer the term "Latine".

LMK what you think? CIVIL disagreements only! (No name-calling, no slandering, no screaming "I HATE YOU", none of that BS. Just talk pls. If I disagree with you, I do so out of kindness.)

[XXthelivingdead]

my question is can an idividual be racist towards another individual and both be of different race (for example: asian person say something to a black person and visa versa? or black person to a hispanic person or hispanic person to a white person even) i've seen this be debated on weather thats still racism or not between the individuals but given the definition of individual racism, wouldn't it still be racism even between two other race groups? (that are not white) i'm just trying to learn! i've always seen the debate 'you cannot be racist to white people' while yes we do not experience systemic/institutional racism and i understand that racism does trickle down into individual racism itself and white people are less likely to experience anything like this, surely its not impossible either? i've seen the word 'predujaced' being used in place of 'racism' towards white people so i've seen people are say ' you cant be racist to white people but you can be predujaced towards white people and i'm predujaced towards white pople because i just dont like them' but isn't that still some form of individual racism? isn't individual racism being predujaced against someone because you do not like their race? another thing i've seen some others say is negatively sterotyping certain racial groups isn't racism if its coming from another race group that also deals with racism yet doesn't negative racial sterotyping have alot of roots in racism?. of course this last part about the sterotyping isn't the main majority of people doing things/saying these things but it is a few minut situations i have seen which do confuse me. or would that be xenophobia instead? please do correct me if i'm wrong though, i'm just trying to learn and educate myself on these things and would appreciate others opinions on stuff like this especially if they experience these things and racism on the daily

[phoenixrising]

Very nicely explained and, finally, some excellent excellent examples of systemic racism and how they work together.

[ClearerThanMud]

I have mixed feelings about the use of racism for all of these cases. On the one hand, I can understand a person with a characteristic Chinese appearance being a bit taken aback by someone wondering whether they were born in China. Just because you are of Chinese ancestry does not mean that you were born there. On the other hand, there really is a correlation between the two. Some people enjoy interacting with people from other countries and learning about their cultures, after all, so is it so terrible of them to ask whether you are from another country, perhaps the one where 99% of the people of Chinese ancestry live?

But more importantly, the word racism was traditionally used to describe discrimination based on race, and the most salient part of that was the ill intent driving that discrimination. Trying to extend the use of the term to cover situations that involve no ill intent arguably dilutes the term -- now it can mean something as innocuous as wondering whether I was born in China. How does that feel for somebody who has repeatedly suffered race-based discrimination?

[gussgr]

As someone that has suffered significant discrimination for being Hispanic, this video helped me a lot!

[Nozverah]

If it doesn't look or sound like a racism then maybe it's not a racism... Jesus, stop tacking on definitions.

[shrinivas]

Kindly suggest me the books where I can get theory of Individual and systemic racism

[fliparama]

This video educated me a lot. Thank you. You're are very kind.