racist?

[Sogeking]

is it a mental illness if your a racist against your own kind?
Edit:i'm asking this out of curiosity

[Yasmine]

i don't know. do you mean you don't like anyone of your own race?

[Sogeking]

yeah

[Bryan B]

i dont think so

[Yasmine]

it depends, if you live, and are surrounded by people of a different race, and you are friendly with them, you might not be used to being with people of the race you are, but if you have to live with the people of your race, that doesn't sound good. if it doesn't interfere with your life, it shouldn't matter so much, everyone has something they discriminate against, one way or another.

[The Batman]

Racism is something learned not born with. People become racist of their own race by their personal lives. It could be like when I was younger I would sometimes be told by my own race that I wasn't black and it kinda hurt my feelings, I could have easily used that to hate my race but instead I ignored it and went on with my life.`

[mr.sexy_bomb]

yeah i dont think it has that much 2 do with ur mind but ur personal experiends

[CuriousCharlie]

No it is not a mental illness and, as stated above, it is something learned.

I like to take a psychological look into it.
First of all, racist and prejudice are often mixed up. To be racist is to believe your race is superior to the other (disregarding whether or not that maybe 1 race is regarded as more successful than the other.)
Prejudice is, well in my definition, assuming the character of somebody based solely on race.

Perhaps maybe the persons experience with their own race growing up has been harmful in some way. This therefore may trigger the mind to deal with the harming situation by, possibly literally or contextually(mentally), rebelling against the source of it's harm as an attempt to fix it (which, by possibility, the source could be assumed by the coincidental average of people (is) in one race.)

That is just my opinion and approach to the situation. I'm sorry, I'm new here and so if anyone believes that I should not have posted that for whatever reason, please delete and/or PM me.

[Sapphire]

It isn't a mental illness.
Racist views can be inherited as well as deriving from your personal experiences. I am of the mind that everyone is prejudiced and discriminates. Everyone judges and everyone is judged. Of course it isn't fair or just, but it's how things are. If you acknowledge the areas in which you hold somewhat racist views and make a conscious effort not to allow it to affect how you treat people or live life then there isn't an issue.