Racism and Racialism

  What’s racialism? How is this concept related to racism? As human beings, we’re social animals that live in constant interaction. As a result of this interaction, human relationships arise in which the concept of group and identity predominates. This creates a situation in which we observe how we build our identity based on a difference: the perception of otherness. Rather arrogantly, we tend to refer to the perception of ‘us’ versus the ‘other’. When we study this phenomenon, we find ourselves faced with social concepts such as racism and racialism. In this article, we’ll define racialism, in order to…