Health impact on racism 

Racism impacts a sever amount of people world wide mentally, many people get exhausted through all the social pressure. Two thirds of people that have received or experienced racism 12 or more have been reported to high psychological distress. This causes the thought if every situation that had to do with racism was handled properly in a safe manner it would prevent the  reduction of risk of a person developing mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders and others.

 

Even things like being bias or exclusion can be very stressful. People that are stressed and worried about being discriminated against are likely to become anxious or socially isolated. This could restrict people from accessing resources like employment and housing. In source 1 it is established that all of these things can cause mental health problems for Aboriginals and issues that could lead to many years of scarring.

 

Racism is when someone or a group of people is discriminating against someone for there racial, ethnic or colour group mostly people that are majorized get treated like these. Racism can be any slur or judgment against someone. Even if you find it humor it can really put someone down getting judged and feeling like there different for everyone else. Racism can be when you are getting discriminated against for your colour, hair colour or the way you were born. Children of colour are raised with these problems and raised to be cautious because this is how the world works but it shouldn't be.

 

Being born into a brown family myself, I was always taught that it was gonna be hard for me growing up and it's definitely right, it had never been easy. I had just moved to Australia not knowing any clear English. I went to a catholic primary school when I was in year 1 and I would get left out and talked about because I was  different. No kids played with me and only really ever played by myself. There weren't many people in that school so there were only about three brown people. It really effected my speech and I didn't speak to people so I ended up with a stutter. People are always taught that black is a bad colour and that it's dark and evil but white is a good colour and its the colour of heaven. That the angel is white and when you get threaten you get blackmailed. A lot of problems and issues like this has caused many problems for many different sought of people around the world.

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