Hate crimes can be defined as violent acts against people because of their actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or even disability towards any person.
             Hate crimes send a message to people that certain groups of other people dislike them or not welcome them in a particular community. People who have been victimized by hate crimes suffer more emotional state of trauma than any other victims from other committed crimes. In my opinion I think that people who have been through or experienced hate crimes tend to remember that and even suffer from that more than for instance, if they being robbed or stabbed etc, with the particular period of time they forget about that and move on with their lives. On the other hand hate crimes leave a big mark in the memory of lots of people, that it was not only the attack on the personality because of race, color or gender hatred, but it also has a huge effect on the other people in that neighborhood or people that are the same race, color or gender so these crimes can be considered also as mental crimes not only on humans but on the emotional state of mind.
             Lots of people perceive hate crime perpetrators as crazy, hate-filled Nazis or skinheads as they call them. Its not necessarily 100% true, because I must say that most hate crime s are carried out by otherwise law-abiding young people who see don't realize what are their actions. Drugs and alcohol is the key to fuel them up against hate crimes, but the main determent is personal prejudice, situation that colors people's judgment and blinding them to the immorality of what they are doing. This prejudice is probably rooted out from that someone is "different" or sees that difference as threatening, in other words people don't think what they are doing and the consequences sometimes can be fatal. This a small phrase I want apply here that my grandfather used to tell me:&quo...