How can we try to combat racism?
Racism is a huge issue in our country. The big question is: how do we stop it? We aim to answer it by giving examples on how it can be fought from different angles.
Why does racism exist in Peru?
Discrimination is a much broader issue, it can originate from religious differences, gender, age, etc. The colony was not an egalitarian society, it discriminated based on religious criteria (for example, being a new or old Christian) and legal criteria (slaves-free; Spaniards-Indians). Part of the confusion stems from the fact that we consider Spaniards as “whites”, while in the vast majority of documents in Peru such equivalence is not verifiable. Neither being defined as Spanish nor indigenous originated from the color of the skin. There are descriptions of "brown" Spaniards and of Indians with "red" skin; their differences are legal: some came from peninsular ancestors, and the others came from the local population regulated by a different law. In the case of slaves, the situation is a little more complex. Little by little, with the passing of European expansion, the black skin color was identified with the inferior through its direct link with slav...
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