Racism consists of ideologies and practices that give explanation for or cause or be responsible for unequal handling of groups or individuals based on criteria of perceived racial or ethnical dissimilarity. These can obtain the form of social actions, practices, beliefs, or political systems that consider different races to be ranked as naturally superior or inferior to each other, based on acknowledged shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities. It may also hold that members of different races should be treated in a different way. Some variants include a belief in hierarchies of worth arising from natural differences between people. Racism happens everywhere—it could be at school, home, online, public places, sports, and work and in the media.
In the center of the questions of how to label racism is whether to embrace forms of discrimination that are accidental, such as making assumptions about preferences or abilities of others based on racial stereotypes, whether to include emblematic or institutionalized forms of discrimination such as the flow of ethnic stereotypes in the course of the media, or whether to take account of the sociopolitical dynamics of social stratification that from time to time have a racial part. Racism can also lead to racial bias and employment discrimination.
Dictionary definitions of xenophobia include: strong or illogical loathe or fear of people from other countries, unreasonable fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of