As more and more people move from one country to another, levels of racism have grown. Is it the responsibility of governments to tackle racism and, if it is, what should they do?
Racist attitudes and behaviour have probably been with us since the earliest interactions of humans from different ethnic backgrounds. Some psychologists believe that racism is a way of defining our social group as different from others. However, even though it may be partly understandable, those in power should take steps to ensure that nobody is treated differently because of their ethnicity or race. Our political leaders are uniquely placed to intervene.
The first area which governments need to target is education. All youngsters- from pre-school infants attending nurseries to undergraduates at institutions of higher education- should be taught to identify, challenge and oppose racial prejudice and aggression wherever they see it. Youngsters need to learn how it feels to be racially abused and they must be given the opportunity to embrace difference and diversity rather than feeling threatened by it. The Minister of Education can ensure that this happens.
In conjunction with this approach, the powers-that-be must confront the media. Websites, newspapers and TV programmes sometimes contain racist stereotypes and negative images of those from ethnic minorities or individuals with different skin colour. Politicians should appoint knowledgeable specialists to monitor and check media outlets. Those in charge of the press and TV channels need to be made aware that racist opinions or images will not be tolerated.
The third and final part of a national strategy should be related to law-enforcement. Stronger legislation should be brought in to punish anyone guilty of racist abuse or violence. All members of the public should realise that we live in a society where this kind of behaviour is unacceptable and will lead to a custodial sentence.
Of course, individuals have a role in stamping out racism. We must stand up to racists. However, political leaders have by far the greatest power to rid our society of this hateful and vile abuse.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, so, third, kind of, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 7.85571142285 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1678.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 308.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.44805194805 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04927348959 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.616883116883 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 518.4 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 50.0632932729 49.4020404114 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.2222222222 106.682146367 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1111111111 20.7667163134 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 7.06120827912 42% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.67935871743 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 3.9879759519 301% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.10332623801 0.244688304435 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0328619874368 0.084324248473 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0332430521908 0.0667982634062 50% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0587104189411 0.151304729494 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0218557344812 0.056905535591 38% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.03 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.97 8.58950901804 116% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 78.4519038076 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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