judge since they saw her as a source of the problems facing their people.addition, if someone has already had negative intercultural contact and is anxious about future contact, particularly if there are inequalities and perceived threats, prejudice likely will develop. This was probably true for the interactions between the residents of a small, largely White community of Lewiston, Maine, and the several thousand Somalis who moved there-for economic opportunities and to escape a brutal civil war in their home country. The influx of almost 2,000 Muslim Somalis into life in French Canadian Catholic Lewiston has not been easy. There have been culture clashes and economic challenges. Some of the White residents saw the Somalis as an economic threat (taking jobs in an already economically depressed area), and some saw the Muslim Somalis as presenting a symbolic threat to their Catholic values. These conditions, combined with the White residents previously held prejudices and lack of experience with racial diversity, probably reinforced some prejudice toward the Somalis. As one Somali student said, "The Somalis are in the limelight in two ways. They re Muslim, and they re black, which is the hardest position for a person to be in the United States today. " ;
6. Racism in the intercultural communication
is the belief that characteristics and abilities can be attributed to people simply on the basis of their race and that some racial groups are superior to others. Racism and discrimination have been used as powerful weapons encouraging fear or hatred of others in times of conflict and war, and even during economic downturns.important feature of racism, especially toward blacks and immigrant groups, is clear in attitudes regarding slaves and slavery. Jews are usually seen by anti-Semites as subhuman but also superhuman: devilishly cunning, skilled, and powerful. Blacks and others are seen by racists as merely subhuman, more like beasts than men. If the focus of anti-Semitism is evil, the focus of racism is inferiority - directed toward those who have sometimes been considered to lack even the ability to be evil.group of people that often go unnoticed when it comes to racism and discrimination are Gypsies . In Europe they have been persecuted to a similar extent as the Jews throughout history, including World War II and even now they are largely mistreated or ignored. p align="justify"> "Europe has a regional human rights architecture which is unrivaled elsewhere in the world", Amnesty International notes in their 2010 report on the Europe and Central Asia region. But the human rights watchdog also adds that as well as guarding a proud reputation as a beacon of human rights, "it is sadly still the case, however, that the reality of protection from human rights abuses for many of...
