Racial consciousness

Racial consciousness or racial awareness is the understanding of the uniqueness of one’s race compared to other races. In particular, a racially conscious person is aware of the physical characteristics, history, culture, traditions, and mores of his own race and how those things differ from other races.

In the world of the late Twentieth and early Twenty-First centuries, racial consciousness came to be treated in different ways for different races; this has occurred primarily for political reasons. Specifically, racial consciousness is considered to be good and healthy for Mongoloid, Negroid, and Australoid peoples, but it is considered to be some sort of mental pathology if exhibited by European Caucasoid peoples.