Article Summary: Symbolism For Skin Color Discrimination In Schools

2.7 COLOURISM IN SCHOOLING

Colourism is not only the family and working places it has in the school too. When we takes the school there is colour discrimination while the school functions. In front row in a dance or any competition the first they selected only the fair skin child even if the dark skin child performed well when compare to the fair skin child. From the schooling itself they discriminate a child. From there they child’s mind-set become the inferiority complex and tend to became fair skin. They assume that we can get opportunity only when we have the fair skin. Dr.Radhika parameshwaran, Professor in the school of journalism an adjunct faculty in the cultural studies and India studies programs at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has been researching about the colourism. She gave information about the Colourism from interview. “the term such as colourism for skin colour discrimination takes the individual level and reduce its significant and importance and the dark colour skinned people are treated as inferior is systematic part of social, economic and cultural institutions.” She said” a lot of them talk about

The unlawful conduct is not predicted a person’s nationality or race they often considered the skin colour of individual who has the same race and culture who act on biased on person’s skin tone. Colour discrimination complaints are brought by individual with those who has black skin than the lighter skin. The skin colour discrimination is grows an importance issue in some culture such as in India, Pakistan and South America. Most typical scenario of colour discrimination involves lighter skinned African Americas discriminating against the darker skinned African American the biased within the same group, including Native American and