Many people are confused about those words. Being arrogant doesn’t necessarily mean that you are a racist even when you are directing that arrogance to other race people. This confusion is nurtured by governments and allows us to direct our feelings to people that might need our help.
There are many manifestations of arrogance in the world. This manifestation is born out of our so called supremacy over other races. This is more like politics and religion based behavior, and clearly this is not a good behavior for a person in the 21st century. We have to get rid of our primitive beliefs and have a normal approach to people from other races. I read on the internet about a case in the US where in a National Convention, some people have thrown peanuts to a camerawoman from CNN telling her “this is the way we feed animals”.
This is not a normal behavior for a human. Imagine that you travel to Africa, for example, and the locals are calling you names or speak their native language in the shops deliberately. How do you feel about that? Do you feel comfortable about it? This behavior is known among the white population too. For example, in Romania there are places where Hungarian minorities live. They are deliberately speaking their language and won’t speak Romanian even if they know it. When you go to a shop in those areas and ask about a product in Romanian language they will reply in Hungarian that they don’t understand what you said. This is not a normal behavior because normal laws state that minorities have to know and speak the language of the country where they live. As you see, arrogance has many faces, and it’s difficult to fight against it. Instead of wars and abnormal fighting, politicians can come up with laws that restrict arrogant manifestations against members of other races. Racism is a bad behavior and arrogance, towards other races, is abnormal. When you want to feel arrogant towards other race member, think if you will like or enjoy being a target of a joke or mistreatment. You probably won’t like it. When you see a black guy or an Asian, please treat them with dignity as you want to be treated. Willing to take that step can make this world a better place.
Arrogance and racism can be considered sins. Maybe in the future, religion will have the courage to fight against this behavior. Jesus said that we should love each other and be united. Besides arrogance, another part of racism is ignorance. Why ignorance? Because people can’t think outside the box, outside the system that is provided by politics and religion. Why to think that other is superior just by skin color? To be superior without being arrogant is good and normal. To be superior by intellect or creativity, to actually use your brain and thoughts in the benefit of human kind is normal behavior. Be superior to racism and arrogance. Be superior to abnormal behavior. Be a normal human being.
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