Issue 6: Racism Prominent Legacy in Western Identity

Throughout history, humanity has suffered from the issue of racism, which emperors, kings, and nations propagated it. In the present day, the West has become its leader, hiding behind it its own contradictions and moral failings, using it as a tool to oppress the weak, both among nations and individuals.

Although the West seeks to present itself as the birthplace of democracy and the leading defender of freedoms and human rights, racism remains a daily reality for millions of ethnic minorities and migrants within Western societies. Since the official abolition of slavery, through the civil rights movements, and into the postmodern era, Western societies have struggled to rid themselves of their racist legacy. Instead, they have recreated it in more complex and less obvious ways. This raises the pressing question: why is racism still deeply entrenched in Western societies despite all the slogans about equality and pluralism?

The Western discourse claims that racism is merely individual behavior, stemming from personal prejudice, and that it can be eradicated through 'tolerance,' 'education,' and 'anti-discrimination laws.' However, reality reveals that racism is part of a broader social, economic, and political system that perpetuates racial disparities through indirect laws, discriminatory institutions, and media that continue to reproduces stereotypes.

 However, it has been especially linked to certain groups and nations that, based on religious, historical, or ideological beliefs, saw themselves as superior to others. One of the most well-known of these groups is the Jewish community, which believed in the idea of being "Allah’s chosen people." This religious belief was later developed by Zionism to justify the need for a special national homeland to protect their unique religious identity. This research focuses on that idea and explains its religious, intellectual, and historical roots.

The research also explained and analyzed the most important characteristics and manifestations of this Jewish racism, which extended to Zionist thought as well, and was limited to isolationism, aggression, and other manifestations that were the product of a deviant, discriminatory racist ideology.

 This presence obscured 

the possibility of achieving acculturation between different cultures,

which might have the same classification rank in the historical trajectory, as the Western model is framed accordingly, giving Western centrality 

the guise of cultural racism, rooted in the belief in superiority resulting from European character, Christian doctrine, and Greek ancestry. 

This racist perception, which underlies the structure of Western culture, is fueled by European ideology, which emerged during the Renaissance and continues to this day. This ideology tends to create a Western narrative that thrives on continuity and historical extension, severing ties with other cultural influences. 

Thus, we find ourselves confronted with an opposing side to this West, namely the East. All of this has created a cultural unity that driven by the racism and the exclusion of those who differ, under the pretext of backwardness. This goes against the core of universalism itself, which is based on the principle of accepting differences, which have been obliterated in favor of modernizing everything in a Western way.

Based on this, the white master had to be in control of the world’s affairs and peoples. Western racism used literature, art, and media to reinforce the Western view of the "other" as inferior, suspicious, and in a lower status. It also promoted the idea of the white man being the only one capable of creativity, innovation, and building civilization. Western racism succeeded in literature by spreading racist novels. It also succeeded in the field of art by portraying racism through paintings, portraits, statues, and films. The media was also used to serve its racist goals.

This article analyzes the relationship between AI and human bias, and its impact on job opportunities, education, and social interaction. It also highlights the risks of AI applications, such as facial recognition and digital advertising, in perpetuating stereotypes. Based on this, recommendations are presented for developing fair algorithms and analyzing their social impacts, with a focus on diversifying development teams and adopting strict regulatory policies. The article aims at raise awareness of the need to design AI systems that promote social justice rather than exacerbate divisions.

 It can be argued that racism is not a spontaneous tactic pursued by some extremists. Rather, according to the statistics in the research, it is a systematic and entrenched policy at all levels of the state, evidenced by discrimination in education, health, the right to work, unemployment rates, income levels, and housing. It is worth noting that the stresses individuals, who fall victim to racism, often experience have a negative impact on their mental health, leading them to experience a cycle of self-conflict.

 language, wealth, having many children, power, religion, or geographic location as criteria for this discrimination. This article analyzes all these factors in detail, as well as critiques and refutations. This research also includes Quranic-based criticisms of two other foundations: discrimination and arrogance, which are among the main factors in racial discrimination.

 In addition to his vast intellectual acquisitions, Garaudy's commitment to using critical tools against structuralism in a disciplined, methodical way becomes clear. He presented hypotheses, proposals, and examples while posing essential questions, continuously reviewing ideas from their parts to the whole. While Garaudy identifies the failures of structuralism both theoretically and practically, he also sought to respond to the proponents of this current, pinpointing its intellectual flaws and theoretical dysfunctions. This led him to invalidate the quality of structuralist theory in all fields where its theorists tried to prove the possibility of its practical and generalizable application. Garaudy’s critical approach to of Marx's structuralist theory granted him the authority to judge it as a theory of the "death of man."

 The thinker Noam Chomsky, in most of his works, pointed out to this bias, where he criticized Western policies for being inconsistent with the principles they claim to uphold. Morin also highlighted on it in some of his writings, where he explained that the West suffers from a crisis in understanding and dealing with global complexities, which leads it to apply double standards in its policies. In this context, François de Fontaine's book "Racism" is considered an objective analysis of the phenomenon of racism.

However, the reader notices that the writer has fallen into the trap of the double standards criticized by both Chomsky and Moran. Despite his attempt to present a neutral perspective, his analysis was influenced by the cultural and political biases prevalent in the West.