Sunday, October 7, 2012
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Race-relations in America are varied. The U.S. is called melting pot, meaning it is composed of plethora of ethical groups. It is impossible this huge melting pot has no conflict between different racial groups. Not only American but also different racial groups have their own ethnocentrism whether it is strong or weak. Also prejudices or stereo-types still exist, such as, "she is blond." Overall race-relations look pretty stable. The conflicts between different racial groups decreased incredibly. Especially, in the U.S., the country with myriad of immigrants pouring into the country every day, people would have become used to new faces. Even the begin of the U.S. history started from immigrates. In my shoes, the reason there were strong racism over African-American was not only they were brought to continent as slaves but also the fact old settlers came before African-American whether it was their decision or not. To add to that people wanted to be better than others that are why people demeaned other racial group, to look better than rest of groups. It is always hard to define a relation between different groups because maybe their overall relation looks just fine but maybe deeper insight would not be as great as it is seen. Even with all conflicts and problems seen the melting pot is heating up just fine, melting all different material as one. Many people would seen the U.S. as peaceful and stable coutry. It might not but it is seen that way. As an immigrants I hope this peace last long.
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