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31825 - WRIT-110-09 INTRO TO COMPOSITION WP3 FINAL Draft Salem AlNajjar on Thu, Dec 04 2014, 10:20 PM Submission ID: 62837104 final 3.doc Word Count: 1,757 Attachment ID: 83265946 Salem 7 Dealing With Modern Day Racism Racism is defined as whichever attitude, inaction, or action, which undermines a person or group owing to differences in ethnicity, color, and race. To most societies, the term racism† revolves around the numerous attitudes and views of different racial groups. Most racial views are particularly undesirable stereotypes about one or more racial clusters as well as the opinion that one s own racial group is greater than the rest. To sociologists, this common premise of racism is more accurately termed as prejudice†. However, outside this agreement, the views of modern racism are debatable. This article is a proposal on racial discrimination with prospect of ending racism and discrimination in the United States. 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