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=Did Racism Effect Britain? Is it sill an issue? The comparison between past racism, and recent racism.=



To set a time period, this is a comparison of the effect of race on Britain during 1857 and Britain in 2009

With much trial and error, Britain found their most successful colonies in The Caribbean during the British Empire. These colonies were established in places such as St Lucia, Grenada, St. Kitts and Barbados. These colonies were developed for lucrative opportunities and to harvest resources. The British looked upon the Portuguese in Brazil, and found that most of their success was coming from slave labor. These slaves would come from areas such as Africa and Brazil. The people who lived in these areas had different colored skin from these colonists, instantly creating a barrier between the darker colored slave people and the lighter colored colonists.

Another example of this the Indian Rebellion of 1857. This rebellion was started as a munity of [|sepoys] (Wikipedia link with definition). Yet later spread to the mutinies and central India. The most detrimental impact of this war, was the separation of the two races. There were Britain's "white" and India's "black" population, which created even more of a reason to despise each other. There were many different rumors on both sides of the spectrum to "feed the fire". There were tales of mutiny murders, of mutilated bodies that fed the urge of the young Englishmen to continue "The White Man's Burden". This phrase is taken directly from the poem "The White Man's Burden". This poem could have had a serious effect on how these young Englishmen thought about the Indian soldiers. It seems as though this White Man's Burden shaped the minds of these soldiers demoralizing and dehumanizing these Indian people. On the other side of the spectrum, these Indian people had a much different view of this war. These people were haunted with memories of murder, rape, arson, and the harsh execution of their fellow soldiers.

Race is still a predominate factor in Britain over 150 years after this time. In 2000, BBC News asked two 16 year old high school students to leave their their culturally and racially deverse high schools and work undercover in a Bristol (a city aproximetly 100 miles from london) housing estate. These teens experienced what racism means and how serious the situation was. These teens were not called in for an unknown experiment, the government asked these teens to do this after seeing the unease of British citizens when around different "races". As soon as these students drove down the road where they were going to be working, they automatically felt unwelcome. They said that they would be frowned upon walking down the street, and in some cases, the citizens would even throw glass and rocks at them. They faced much worse than thrown rocks or frowns, they were not to walk on the street or they would be punished with a punch to the head and the harsh words of "bye, bye paki" These students were also mooned numerous times and mugged.

A very important question arrises when hearing these harsh description is "Did this White Man's Burden concept carry on through society even today?" Doesn't the imagery of the Indian citizens sound like the same situation as these students description of what happened? Did this idea carry on through today? Why would these people have such hatred toward these innocent people?

I searched "why do muslim" and "why do indians", and took a screen shot. This is what i found:



Where I plan to go from here:  I would like to expand the modern day example. The things that I want to add are potential reasons that the modern day society could have such hatred. This should not be too hard to find, yet I must make sure that I am able to present without bias. I would also like to expand on past racism in Britain. I have found some resources (just need some time to put it in here). Other than that, there is really nothing else I would like to expand on. I might add pictures, but above, I listed the things that are needed to do to finish the text. Annotated Bibliography