Racism

Introduction
Some races tend to have false beliefs that they are superior to other races to an extent that cause inequality towards one another especially in places or countries that race is minority, different races used different method of inequality such as slavery towards others. This essay will be explain understanding the influence of beliefs from our societies and understanding policies used to segregate races especially looking at South African apartheid laws such as the Group Areas, Bantu Education Act then summing up with a conclusion.
Understanding the influence of beliefs from our society and surroundings
I tend to agree with Singer in statement that, racism is distinct sort of a mere belief towards racism, Singer (as cited in Philosophy course reader and study guide, 2012, p. 58). Looking at the history of South Africa during its apartheid time, newly born whites by the time they were able to understand certain things they were taught that whites are privileged over the black race, this meant believing those statement which were said to them by their parents, and also when they saw that, everyone in their societies and in the country treated the black race differently. A foetus, an infant cannot reason as there is no wrong or right for them, it's only a baby at a certain time or stage that gets to see things and made connections towards understanding how the world works, therefore their parents teaches them between right and wrong also their environment and society adds to what they know, this means for them being racist at that time was seen as being correct and was taken as norm because their family and society treated blacks the same. "Racially thinking also involves robust, seemingly self-evident, widely rehearsed and highly shared beliefs about meaning and nature of human difference" (Hirschfled, 1998, p. 2). Looking at Germany during Hitler's time, the Aryan race saw themselves as a master race because it's false believe of which it was perpetrated to them by their leaders. So looking at this historical events they are more the same because Aryan race taught their children that ideology, of which it is not easy for some to change or have a different ideology because their parents and society have the same mentality. Looking at the current events in South Africa, black people chasing away the foreign nationals, Zimbabweans and Nigerians, as they said that, this races are taking their jobs and bringing crime and drugs into this country, it might be true that they are caught most of the time with drugs though it is us going to them and buying those drugs as you find that some of this drug dealers don't do those drugs, but let's come back to the topic of beliefs, even so those South Africans who are also selling drugs cannot be counted for but because Nigerians seems as a drug dominating race which is believed. When I was growing up people in my society used to call foreign nationals as Amakwerekwere, Abachamuki which means foreign people and the was never an understanding and equality from the beginning of my years, so therefore you can see that as you grew up society dominate our mind, we end up having that same ideology of discriminating other races. "Children growing up in Australia are exposed in images of race, Aboriginal Australians and of minority groups that portray those groups as objects of paternalistic concern or as aliens whose presence threatens the cultural identity and economic well-being of the majority of the community" (McCarthy, 1993, p. 126). This false believe is apparently occurring all over the country of which this matter can be eliminated or minimised by educating people that yet we may come from different races but the need to treat other people the way we also want to be treated, treatment of respect and dignity, which is Singer's Principle Of Equality. According to the POE of Singer, people should be treated the same, though it does not tell us how to look at the world but we must behave in the world, Singer (as cited in Philosophy course reader and study guide, 2012, p. 60).
Understanding policies used to segregate races as minority
During the apartheid era in South Africa black people used to be deprived many rights using certain policies by enforcing segregation upon them, I will explain some of this laws. As Singer also stated that, honed approaches which separated between individuals on the premise of racial personality as this segregation happened both in law, looking at the Nuremberg laws, furthermore in additional lawful measures, the affecting of brutality ran extensively from denying people of different common freedoms, the opportunities to wed whomever one wished to possess different sorts of property, to by and large deadly approaches, Singer (as cited in Philosophy course reader and study guide, 2012, p. 58). According Chokshi, Carter, Gupta, Martin, & Allen, (1995, p. 2-4) this are some of the apartheid laws
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949
Precluded relational unions between white individuals and individuals of different races. Somewhere around 1946 and the establishment of this law, just 75 blended relational unions had been recorded, contrasted and by most accounts 28,000 white relational unions.
Group Areas Act, Act No 41 of 1950
Constrained physical division between races by making distinctive neighbourhoods for diverse races. Prompted constrained evacuations of individuals living in "wrong" zones, for instance Coloured's living in District Six in Cape Town.
Bantu Education Act, Act No 47 of 1953
Built a Black Education Department in the Department of Native Affairs which would assemble an educational program that suited the "nature and necessities of the dark individuals". The creator of the enactment, Dr Hendrik Verwoerd (then Minister of Native Affairs, later Prime Minister), expressed that its point was to counteract Africans getting an instruction that would lead them to try to positions they wouldn't be permitted to hold in the public eye. Rather Africans were to get a training intended to give them aptitudes to serve their own kin in the countries or to work in working occupations under whites.
Conclusion
No one is born racist or having racist behaviour, tough we learn and absorb racist behaviours from our parents, people we live with at home and within our societies, we look, learn and implement actions based on what we have seen during our life time therefore a racist person is one that regard his or her race that is very much privilege than other racist which tends to look down or down grade other people's race, Singer's POE can be adopted and used which is why I agree with his principle understanding that everyone must be treated equally. Singer's point of view, racist actions could be eliminated as an individual would not want to be treated unequally than the other person which means we can all do things to other people as we want them to do to us.