Racism

Racism involves prejudice or discrimination based on race, skin colour or ethnic background. It can involve the belief that some racial groups are superior to others. Racist assumptions can also appear in stereotypes: treating everyone in a group as though they have the same abilities, behaviour or character.

Racism involves prejudice or discrimination based on race or ethnic background. It treats these differences as reasons for assigning people different worth or opportunities. Christian opposition to racism rests on the belief that human differences do not make some people less valuable than others.