Eyes Open Wide: Thinking about Race and Broadening Perception to Combat Racism

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Louis John Camilleri

Abstract

Thinking approximately race is a taboo difficulty in Malta. This is due to the fact the Maltese rebuff the notion that they are worried, influenced, and distressed with the aid of using pores and skin shade and race. It is plain that the Maltese network is one that is worried approximately race and it's far the look at`s aim to analyze the Maltese man or woman`s views concerning race and racism.
The human questioning device is more and more more looking for to categorise the given records and continuously attempting to stereotype and compartmentalize the world - Pleasure and pain, excellent and evil, Democrats and Republicans, guy and woman, Ying and Yang, black and white, Catholics and Muslims – in important opposites. Racial questioning isn't always clearly a list of human difference, however it encompasses ideals approximately the very nature of difference. The contemporary racial questioning styles in Malta appear to be regularly contracting, and could finally blind everyone who endorses them. Current philosophies or dogmas have led the Maltese man or woman to a blind alley. What one wishes are the gear to manoeuvre oneself out of the alley.
The look at proposes that errors in questioning might be attributable to defectiveness in perceptions instead than mistakes of logic. It proposes that what one appears to be overlooking is the actual potential of the thoughts - what one appears to be denying, is that with the aid of using acknowledging and converting one`s negative, distorted ideals approximately oneself, one ought to stay a richer and greater pleasurable life. The look at strives to faucet the overall capability of the thoughts and check out how the thoughts works with regards notion and the way it in flip affects the introduction of racist dogmas. The findings display that perceptual distortions ought to in reality be the motive of prejudice and for this reason make a contribution to the harbouring of racism, hatred and discrimination toward contributors of different races

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Louis John Camilleri. (2018). Eyes Open Wide: Thinking about Race and Broadening Perception to Combat Racism. European Economic Letters (EEL), 8(1). https://doi.org/10.52783/eel.v8i1.57
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