There are many kinds of realism. The basic issue (usually) boils down to whether a phenomenon or entity is mind-dependent or not, but middle grounds are also possible. Realism does not necessarily exclude the subjective, nor are the subjective and objective always mutually exclusive.
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If we understand the realistic philosophy as gnosology - from the contributions of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas - there would be a contrast between the cogntive and emotional representations of the external environment - contents of the mind - and the socially categorized observations.