Racism and prejudice is widely spread amongst our history and in today's society. Racism and prejudice is often expressed through distrust or contempt for people who are different from the majority. These difference can be of physical, cultural character, or just based on a different background, such as a foreign nationality. It is a natural reaction for people to be suspicious (either intentionally or unintentionally) about the things that are strange to them. Sometimes this suspicion turns into anger, frustration, or fear.
Hate Crime Statistics, 2003, published by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, includes data from hate crime reports submitted by local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies throughout the Nation.
A breakdown of the single-bias incidents by the type of bias revealed that 51.4 percent were motivated by racial bigotry, 17.9 percent were caused by religious intolerance, 16.6 percent were the result of a sexual-orientation bias, and 13.7 percent were triggered by an ethnicity/national origin bias. The remainder involved a bias against a disability.
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