Fight Racism!

I think that not enough has been done to combat racism yet. Even though racism has significantly over the years, there are still cases of prejudice against the other race, for example whites towards blacks. I think that racism can be completely stopped just if everyone cooperates with one another. More campaigns can be organised to engage the people from different races to come together and be peaceful. For example, "white" Americans still loathe the "black" African Americans in the United States. They "whites" loathe the "blacks" just for who they are no matter how innocent they are and this has been going on for many, many years.

The Singapore government has done many things to stop racism. Singapore had once witnessed a terrible period of race riots when she was still part of Malaysia. The huge population of Chinese in Singapore and the huge population of Malays in Malaysia were unable to co-exist harmony at that period of time and many race riots started sprouting out. In order for history not to repeat itself, the Singapore Government spent a lot of effort to make peace between the people in Singapore.

For example, Racial Harmony Day is celebrated every year to educate the people of Singapore about the importance of racial harmony. In my primary school, we were allowed to dress up as someone of a different culture to celebrate Racial Harmony Day. There were also game booths set up to test ourselves about the different races. This would ensure that everyone knows about the importance of racial harmony.

The Singapore Government also arranged the people living in HDB Flats so that in every floor, there would be a number of Chinese families, Indian families and so on. This ensure that everyone living in the HDB Flats get to interact with people of different races, and hopefully the they would learn to appreciate one another.