...English 1301.63505 United States, the Home of Racism Racism is defined as discrimination or prejudice based on race. Racism is one of the main problems in the U.S because of the tragic events such as the Civil War, Holocaust, and 9/11. First was the Civil War. That was the war about slavery, and we all know that slavery is one of the biggest forms of racism known to man. It was fought between the North/Union and the South also known as Confederates. The cause of this war was slavery, which is the base of racism in this country today. The South sent ships over to Africa and brought back people to sell like they were cattle. The south thought this was ok, because they were a lesser race to the white man. The South put the African Americans to work on their farms. Not seeing that this was so wrong to the moral standard of a human being, the African Americans weren't allowed to do anything but be slaves. When the North heard of the news they tried to stop this. The south wanted no part of the North's explanation because they bought the slaves and thought the African Americans were their own property. They were so mad that they broke away from U.S and made their own thing, “The Confederate State of America”. There were many people in the south who thought the same way as the North, so the Underground Railroad was started to help the African Americans. This was a series of hiding spots for African Americans who were trying to get to the North's border so the slaves could become...
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...Afro-Americans in Germany The free-of- Jim-Crow ambience in Germany had influenced Afro-American soldiers so much that their “experiences in postwar and Cold War West Germany thus proved pivotal in the struggle against racial discrimination in America” (Hön and Klimke 1). America’s contradictory attitudes of leading the free world and at the same time hosting institutionalized racism was targeted by “the Soviet and Eastern German propagandists” (Hön and Klimke 2). What worsened matters, Jim Crow segregations were carried out in German communities. “The failure of African-American units thus were attributed to the African-Americans, and in the cases where black units achieved successes, credit went to the white officers leading them” (Schroer 47). However, “in May 1946, for the first time a majority of white Americans polled agreed that “Negroes are as intelligent as white people”” (Schroer 71). 1964 showed examples of the American government’s handling of the problem of racism producing “The President’s Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces, Final Report: Military Personnel Stationed Overseas” (Hön and Klimke 3). One of the most important examples of collaboration between GIs and civilians in fighting for racial equality was “the “Call for Justice” meeting...
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...Short Essay on Race and Racism Racism occurs when one ethnic group or people as a whole controls, excludes, or tries to exclude another on the idea of the differences that it believes are genetic and cannot be changed. A belief base for racism came to a realization in the Americas during the modern period. No clear and explicit evidence of racism has been found in other cultures or in Europe before the modern period. The identification of the Jews with the devil and witchcraft in the general public of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries was perhaps the first sign of a racist view of the world. Real support for such attitudes came in sixteenth century Spain when Jews who had converted to Christianity and their descendants became the victims of a regular pattern of discrimination and segregation. The period of the Renaissance and Reformation was also the time when Europeans were coming into increasing contact with people of darker skin-color in Africa, Asia, and the Americas and were making conclusions about them. The reasoning for enslaving Africans was that they were unconverted and unbelievers of God, associated between darkness and evil but slave traders and slave owners sometimes took a passage from the book of Genesis as their justification. Ham, derives from the Hebrew Ch’m, associated with being black and burnt. The story was subsequently used to underpin theories of the origin of Africans and to justify their enslavement. (Rattansi p.17) When the state...
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...Two hemispheres. Two continents. Two races. One ubiquitous word. Racism. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, racism is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and those racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race Merriam Webster Dictionary definition of racism. Julius Lester, a former professor at the University of Michigan, concurs in one of his papers, stating that racism is a race’s idealization of itself Find the paper written by Julius Lester. This statement portrays what racism is all about. Racism appears to be a race’s perception of themselves as superior due to a certain factor that does not truly represent superiority. The idea of racism is the attribution of a factor or characteristic as a symbol of supremacy. In George Mosse’s Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism, racists consider their beauty,...
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...Fascism in the Twentieth Century; Hitler and Nazism ‘Fascism’ is one of the most controversial political terms in modern history. The lack of a universally accepted definition for the term has meant that it can and has been applied to a wide variety of political contexts. Fascism developed from the destruction caused by the First World War. Its origins can be traced, however, to the intellectual revolt against liberalism in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. While there was a revolutionary reaction against the ideals of the French Revolution before 1914, it was the First World War which acted as a real catalyst for the emergence of fascism. The war swept away the Hohenzellern, Halsburg and Romanov dynasties in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia respectively and sharpened class-consciousness (the idea of lower, middle and upper classes) and increased ethnic tensions, severely weakening the social fabric of many nations. Fascism, in part, was also the result of a reaction by the middle classes against the perceived communist threat caused by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917. Fascism was the most severe reaction to the post-war political, social and national crisis. The First World War also had a positive significance on the rise of fascism. The survivors of the ‘lost generation,’ (the survivors of the First World War) had become disillusioned and embittered, and were attracted to the direct-action approach of fascist paramilitary organisations. This increased...
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...the rhetoric and ethos of the Nazi Party but fails to take any account for ethics. He also uses Aristotle's Politic and Rhetoric to make the connection between rhetoric, ethics, technology, and expediency. Katz concludes that the deliberative orators aim is utility, to determine means to ends- a question of expediency. Aristotle believed that practical wisdom must be accompanied by moral virtue to supply the right end. Hitler used Aristotle’s work to form the ethos in Nazi Germany. However, with Hitler, there was no distinction between "practical wisdom" and "moral virtue", between expediency and the good as long as rhetoric serves its end, that is, the State. His belief in the efficacy of science and technology as the basis of ethics and politics resulted in mass extermination. Based on the ethic of expediency, rhetoric for Hitler was pure technique, designed not to encourage debate, but rather to indoctrinate. Hitler created an ethos of expediency to carry out his program for the “greater good” of Germany. Katz believes that to some extent, technological, economical expediency is the “moral” basis of many decisions in our society that sometimes harm human welfare. The ethic of expediency that provides the moral base of deliberative discourse used to make decisions, weigh consequences, and argue results in every department of society, also resulted in the holocaust. Katz concludes that in light of the holocaust, we...
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...The Holocaust, a tragic and horrible event in history with about eleven million deaths. Of these eleven million, six million were Jewish. Racism played a significant role in the political and social events that led to the Holocaust because the Germans believed they were a superior race, Jewish people were denied many rights, and the Jews were victimized by the Germans. The Nazis began to combine racial theories and theories on evolution to come up with the idea that their race was superior to the Jews as well as other groups. This caused them to be obsessed with the idea of making the master race. This “Aryan Master Race” include people who were of pure aryan descent and those who were tall, fair-haired and light-eyed. Ultimately, Hitler’s...
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...Racism has caused much hurt and violence in the world. No matter what you were, people would always hate because you were different. Racism has affected people’s views on reality making them believe that they were superior then others, when really we are all the same. Heinrich Himmler and Georges Cuvier were both two men who believed that they far better than any other races and were blinded by their hatred. Racism has made people believe that they are far superior then others. Heinrich Himmler is a great example of how people’s views can get destroyed. Himmler coordinated the deaths of over 6 million Jews because he believed that they didn’t seem fit to be in this world. He thought that he was doing something good for the world and in reality he was just a sick man. The whole entire world was living with Jewish aspects everywhere but Himmler had such strong views that he didn’t know what reality was. No ones life should be taken just for being different. Another person who’s hatred for others blinded him of reality was Georges Cuvier. Some believe that Georges Cuvier was a major figure in natural science research and very influential. Cuvier might have been a great scientist but was an idiot when it came to real life. He believed that that all men descended from Adam from the bible. There were three distinct races the Caucasians, Mongolian, and the Ethiopian. He claimed that Adam and Eve were Caucasian and that was the original race of mankind, and the other two races were...
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...African Americans have faced racism, prejudice attitudes, and discrimination in America for hundreds of years. First Black people were brought over as slaves and treated horribly by White people. After Black people were finally freed, they were then segregated from Whites until 1964 (Parrillo, 2011). Presently Black people still experience a great deal of racism in the United States. There are four main areas where African Americans encounter racism: job attainment, acceptance by other citizens, education, and poverty. Black people experience job discrimination through institutional discrimination. As defined by Parrillo, 2011, "institutional discrimination is the unequal treatment of subordinate groups inherent in the ongoing operations of society's institutions. Entrenched in customs, laws, and practices, these discriminatory patterns can exist in banking, criminal justice, employment, education, health care, housing and many other areas in the private and public sectors" (62). African Americans may not get a higher paying position simply due to the fact that they are black, and therefore labeled a certain way. Affirmative action took place in 1961 in attempt to produce equality in the workforce (Parrillo, 2011). However, employers still find opportunities to avoid hiring an African American based on "other factors." Blacks also experience racism through acceptance by other American citizens, mainly Whites. Whites may make it harder for African Americans to participate and...
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...remembrance of “Rosa Parks bold stand and her role in ending racism.” People all over America were puzzled as to how the Republican party could possibly believe that racism is over and accused the party of trying too hard to appeal to African American voters. The message the Republicans distributed only shows how the government continues to undermine the on-going mistreatment of African Americans. Racism has no sight of ending because for centuries the economic and social gaps between African Americans and Caucasians have steadily increased, and it will be impossible to close if we depend solely on time to fix it. Other races have received reparations for what they went through, but for some unknown reason African Americans were expected to get over their trauma because a couple of laws were passed to free them from state recognized slavery. Silence needs to be broken against racism in order to open the government’s eyes to the continuous discrimination faced by African Americans daily, in addition to the centuries of torture. Jews in Europe were victimized by Nazi Germany for a small fraction of the amount of time blacks suffered and Germany paid both the individuals and the state. Enslaved Africans, on the other hand, had slavery “abolished,” and were allowed to buy stale pieces of land in order to make crops to sell and use that money to pay back their white oppressors. The government expects people to believe that racism ended, but they see nothing wrong with Caucasians getting...
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...Two years before Adolf Hitler became the chancellor of Germany, the International Olympic Committee decided that the 1936 Olympic games would take place in Berlin, Germany. The Olympic games served as the platform for Germany’s comeback after their devastating loss in World War I as well as for Hitler’s Nazi movement to gain power.()()() A primary component of the Nazi movement was the purification of the German race which focused on the declared superiority of the Aryan race to that of the German Jews. Prior to the Olympic games, Hitler introduced a set of laws that stripped Jews from their German citizenship and of some basic human rights. In addition, Jewish athletes were denied access to training facilities and participation in the Olympic game events. These events led to criticism from other countries and efforts to boycott the games in the United States. However, even with great efforts to boycott the games and not play a role in the great injustices against the Jews in Germany by the Nazi regime, the United States still attended. I consider the...
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...as a whole.” The birth of many Afro-German children in German Southwest Africa led to a profound racial predicament; the German people, as well as the Afro-German children found themselves brought to the forefront discussions of racial mixing as well as racial purity, issues that would plague Germany for several years to...
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...Title: Racism Introduction There has always been some kind of prejudice among people who live in a certain geographical area. Whether in the way of living, the way they look, their wealth or the resources available. The way one was brought up or his/her way of life will define how that person will relate to the people around him. An example is whereby a girl was brought up in a strict religious family. Her church had a congregation of African Americans only, and any other race was not allowed to worship with them. As a result, she grew up with no knowledge of any other culture but this. After getting employed, she was openly racist with no regard to the people she was meant to work with. She did not attend to clients from different races and never associated with her colleagues. Her culture propagated her racist ideologies. Hence, it is obvious that culture often goes hand in hand with racism. Racism is the clear discrimination against people who do not have the same skin colour as you. The lifestyles of the people around us should be celebrated and embraced. Therefore, culture should not be used as a way of propagating racism or any other kind of prejudice. It is evident that the racial prejudice is a mindset, which is subject to change. Racism should be criminalized because it denies the community from the full potential of a person and the loss of opportunities that could empower the whole society. (Dovidio & Gaertner, 2004). There is a stereotype that there is a wealthy...
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...ID:20901413 Course:IR 227-2 Issues affecting Turkey’s relation with Germany: “Xenophobia” and German People’s attitude towards Turkish immigrants There are a few instincts that shape individual’s attitudes towards strangers. The meaning of stranger however, is something that changes based on people’s perspective. Strangers are mostly the ones, who are the outsiders person’s family or outside the country. The feeling of patriotism and racism can be listed under these feelings. Xenophobia is a concept that is directly related to this issue. As defined by Faruk Şen (2002), “Xenophobia can also be exhibited in the form of an "uncritical exaltation of another culture" in which a culture is ascribed "an unreal, stereotyped...
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...The Greek origin of holocaust is “sacrifice by fire.” It is no surprise that this is how the Germans killed the Jews. Germans believed they were racially superior to the Jews, so it seemed fit to kill off the “aliens.” Over eleven, including six million Jews were killed during this time of chaos and confusion. During the time of the Holocaust the Germans also targeted Roma Gypsies, the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples . Hitler, the German leader wasn’t messing around, others were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, including Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Wittness, and homosexuals. First, the Holocaust is significant because it is an example how extreme racism can get, and what we can do to prevent something...
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