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Reading Comprehension
Volume 3, Number 15, December 15, 1997
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Only One Race
.___Lately, there's a lot of talk about race relations.
To be sure, racism hasn't vanished from the world. However, much of the
problem is actually in how we view the problem. There are too many
people, most of them well meaning, who are actually practicing racism
by the way they fight it.
.___People
talk about interracial problems, in other words problems between
different races. That very perception is racism! We don't have an interracial
problem, we have an intraracial problem, conflict within
one race. The fact is that all people belong to the same race: the
human race. The color of our skin or who and what our ancestors were
like are not what define us as individuals.
.___As
long as governments, institutions, or individuals classify people as
part of separate racial groups, racism will continue to exist.
For discussion:
1. Is this selection mostly a factual report or an expression of opinion?
2. On what points, if any, do you agree with the author? Give reasons.
3. On what points, if any, do you disagree with the author? Give reasons.
4. Write an essay giving your ideas on this subject.
Copyright 1997 RHL