Theory of racial Discrimination

16 Racial, ethnic, and cultural differences among peoples play a major role in the events of our times, in countries around the world, and have played a major role with the long history of the human race. Both inter group socio economic differences within a given country and larger differences on a world stage between nations or whole civilizations reflect large cultural differences that have pervaded history 1994: 1. Race gives important contribution in the civilization since it has a great power to unite people and also to separate or to divide people. People can be united when they belong to the same race, but they also can easily be divided when they do not to the same race. In Race and Culture: A World View, Thomas Sowell also says that “race as a social concept is a powerful force uniting and dividing people” 1994. In a racist society, race is used as the key to determine one’s class position. Usually, the class position of colour people is under the white people. Fenon, as cited by Karenga in Introduction to Black Studies, says that “in a racist context, i.e., the colony, race is the key determinant” 1993. 2.1.5 Theory of psychology 2.1.5.1 Personality According to Cole, in Theories of Personality, one’s personality is not fixed by heredity. It grows, shed some traits, acquires others, is sometimes supported by environmental pressures and sometimes wrapped by them, and is PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 17 quickly affected by illness, decease, or unusual emotional strain 1956: 156. Furthermore, the emotional strain is explained further by Ruch in his book Psychology and Life. According to him, through a process called repression, a person can eliminate conscious awareness of both the stimuli and the responses in emotion if they cause him psychological pain. In addition, he states that people’s external behavior, and even their internal physiological responses are often influenced by emotions of which they themselves are entirely unaware 1948. In his book Pattern and Growth in Personality, Allport states that from all determinants that possible to determine a person’s personality, environments seem to take the biggest contribution. Environments give more complex contributions to one’s personality. Therefore, Allport acquired the situation and the role as the determinant factors to determine a person personality. Each factor has its own contribution in forming one’s personality 1970. Hurlock in her book, entitled Personality Development, describes that there are three major factors which determine the development of personality pattern. The first is the individual’s heredity endowment, the second is the early experiences within one’s family, and the third is important events outside one’s home environment. Actually, behavior learned in childhood may later be changed by direct training or by altering one’s environment 1974. Byrne and Kelley 1981 consider one’s personality as a dynamic process for it can change throughout one’s life. Further, they state that personality change can happen when there is condition that leads the new emotional, informational or responses 1981: 533. The earliest years of life are important to form the basis for PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI