Abstract:
This paper attempts to investigate to what extent folk culture has managed to establish and entrench the concept of racism among Sudanese, the paper focused on the proverbs as a powerful example and important mean for transmission of beliefs, and cultural values. Thus, in order to collect the necessary data, the researcher collected more than 500 Sudanese proverbs and diagnosed them to find out the proverbs that reflect any sense of racism in the Sudanese culture. The findings of this study resulted in 36 racial proverbs that express direct racism , they mostly focused on the Arab\ non Arab discrimination in a blatant way that could entrench the concept of racism and ethnic prejudice amongst Sudanese.
