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Bigotry
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For people named Bigot and other meanings, see Bigot (disambiguation).
A bigot is a prejudiced person who is intolerant of opinions, lifestyles or identities differing from their own. The origin of the word in English dates back to at least 1598, via Middle French, and started with the sense of religious hypocrite, especially a woman.
Bigot is often used as a pejorative term against a person who is obstinately devoted to their prejudices even when these views are challenged or proven to be false. Forms of bigotry may have a related ideology or world views.
Racism
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An African-American man drinks out of the "colored only" water cooler at a racially segregated street car terminal in the United States in 1939.Racism refers to various belief systems maintaining that the essential value of an individual person can be determined according to a perceived or ascribed racial category and that social discrimination by race is therefore justifiable.
The word "racism" itself appeared in the 1930s, both in the English language and in French, though other terms existed for the concept long before then, such as "race prejudice" and "racialism". Such racial prejudice usually includes the belief that people differ in aptitudes and abilities (such as intelligence, physical prowess, or virtue) according to race.
Most individuals who use the concept of racial categories believe that different races can be placed on a ranked, hierarchical scale.[citation needed] Racism may also be defined as the act of separating groups according to these ascribed race categories. In doing so the term receives the appropriate -ism ending, meaning the practice or act of doing such as described above.
The term "racist," when used to describe someone who subscribes to racism, has been a pejorative term since at least the 1940s, and for this reason the identification of a group or person as racist is nearly always controversial.
Racism is often seen in generalizations and stereotypes that are negatively derived from a group of people sharing a common physical trait.
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Comment #1 Tuesday, August 29, 2006 4:03 AM