Skin Colour Discrimination

Colour discrimination occurs when individuals were treated differently than other person who are similarly situated because of their skin. This also can occur race discrimination. It happened when member in the same race are treated differently because of their skin colour. For example , the employer does not hire anyone who skin colour are darker , but does hired light skin or white persons of all races.

In Latin America and Caribbean , discrimination against black people and indigenous people are generally occurs. This situation also happened in America and some other country even the government are trying so hard to solve this issue from overwhelming. However , we can see that the racism level is decreasing and black people are started to be welcomed. For example like the election of President of United State that belong to Barrack Obama , black people.

In Mexico for instant, the Afro-descendant population state that less than two percent of the country's 104 million people. A survey that is published in October 2000 by the Mexico City newspaper El Universal state that 56.6 percent of respondents believed that there was racism in Mexico, while 61.1 percent said that there was discrimination based on the colour of people's skin.

Earlier this year in Ecuador, the government sponsored the First National Survey on Racism and Racial Discrimination. 37,500 people were interviewed, 65 percent believed that there was racism in their country, and 88 percent said that blacks were suffered the worst discrimination.

The studies conducted by the Ministry of Education in Brazil there is the country with the largest number of Afro-descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean show's that a 2.2 percent of university students are black, 18 percent are of mixed-race heritage, and the majority, 80 percent are white.

Nowadays,skin colour discrimination should not exist anymore.People shoul be treated same as another. People should respect each other without thinking about skin colour or other thing. In modern era, our mind must be opened. We should consider that every single person have their own potential to be succeed and we should not stop them from being successful just becauce of their skin colour different from each others.

Everyone should be given the same oppurtunity to live peacefully and have the same right in this world no matter who are there or wether there are black skin colour or white skin coloyr.

"The color of a person’s skin, more than their race, is becoming a key cause of racism"