ABSTRACT
Racial discrimination and racial prejudice are phenomena of colonialism. It was as a result of the conquest of poor and relatively underdeveloped countries by the technologically advanced nations during the nineteenth century, that new kinds of economy, new forms of social relations of production involving both conqueror and conquered, were brought into being. The inequalities between men of different nations, ethnic groups or religions, or between men with different skin colours, which resulted, were often justified in biological racist theories or some functional equivalent.
