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- Racism
Racism is discrimination and prejudice against persons on the basis of origin, ethnicity, skin colour, religion/worldview, culture, name, language and other characteristics. Racism is closely linked to European colonial history and is founded on the fiction that, based on these characteristics, people belong to a particular race and these races can be ordered hierarchically. Even now, racist attributes are used for the systematic oppression of people all over the world. It often leads to mental abuse, physical violence and, in extreme cases, mass killings or genocide.
- Refugee
A person who, owing to a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of their nationality.