Beforehand, the European cultures did not interact with those of Africa or Asia. When Europeans started sailing and interacting with other cultures, they wanted an easy way to explain the difference in skin color. ... Culture still influences race to this day. ... Europeans lived in colder climates. ... Using culture to define race has been used since the Europeans have ventured form their corner of the planet, but modern scientific methods have determined that the factors of race should be more than just geographic location and skin color. ...

• Word Count: 993
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• Grade Level: High School

There were exchanges of ideas, products and crops that greatly advanced the cultures of all involved, but on the other hand, new diseases, and harsh treatment of one another were also present. ... This all changed when the European settlers arrived. The Europeans believed that humans had domination over the land. ... The Europeans brought back from the New World, tobacco, maize, beans, tomatoes, and potatoes, which provided food for the now greatly populated Europe. ... Europeans unknowingly brought with them many diseases that eventually plague the Native Americans. ...

• Word Count: 3125
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• Grade Level: High School

In Conrad's work, he uses descriptive details of his accounts in European Africa. ... It is clear early in the novel that Conrad is making a negative statement about European imperialism. ... "Something pathetically childish in the ruins of the grass walls"(35) is how Marlow describes this abandonment of culture and life. ... It is these men who have cleared out the lands and made the paths for the Europeans to travel. ... Marlow's tale of his journey is a powerful criticism to the conduct of European imperialism of Africa. ...

• Word Count: 1016
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• Grade Level: High School

During the 19th century white Europeans had come to the point that money equaled power and in turn gave them the right to enslave people that were unlike them. When these Europeans accounted cultures that were different then their mainstream, they say them as uncivilized beasts that needed their help. ... In the European "helping" way these people were taken from their families so that white hands did not get blackened by the dirt. The differences that the Europeans saw in these people were used to create new species. ...

• Word Count: 711
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• Grade Level: High School

Thinking it would be fun Charlie decides to take a trip to Africa looking for European imperialism. ... Some of the major characters in the story are as follows: Charlie Marlow, Kurtz - a European, half English, and half French, who works for the ivory company at the Inner Station on the Congo, The Manager - an Englishman who runs the Central Station on the Congo. ... Often this evil side breaks out during times of isolation from our culture, and whenever one culture confronts another. History is loaded with examples of atrocities that have occurred when one culture comes into effect. ... I ha...

• Word Count: 1164
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• Grade Level: High School

His parents both from europe offered a strict childlife, but brought him into his love for literature and helped him to be an educated young man (South). ... Due to the time period that this novel was written in the book is very special from others about African culture. ... Paton remained a successful well rounded individual and portrays the struggle and culture in South Africa during the times of segregation very well....

• Word Count: 511
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• Grade Level: High School

Creole are people of European Decent, born in the West Indies. ... The Creoles were known as "not real white people" this quote shows how they did not belong in Europe or the West Indies thus emphasises the alienation of being Creole. The black culture is very different, making the white people feel cut off from the white culture. ... The marriage is a mismatch of both culture and custom. ...

• Word Count: 1105
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• Grade Level: High School

Cultural conflict makes the story extremely interesting, as it shows the different cultures of different societies, and about how each of them feel about each other. ... This shows how culture affects characterization, as Nyokabi is a black woman who hates Indians. ... In African culture the land is the most important thing to them, it is also revealed that God gave this land to them, and they must retrieve it from the Whites, who have forcefully occupied their land. ... Conflicts between status accounts for a great deal of events that take place in the novel. " Europeans cannot be friends wit...

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• Grade Level: High School

To some he embodies the tragic effects of Euro-American culture on the lives and cultures of Native Americans. ... The gold rush of 1849 flooded California with Europeans. ... This man we call Ishi, helped others learn by teaching what his people and his culture was like. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Most immigrants came from Europe, and also some from Asia in search of new opportunities for success. ... And they also strengthened the Democratic Party with their votes in exchange for preservation of their own individual cultures. ... They believed that immigrants would take their jobs and work for lesser pay and also threatened American life and culture. ... Bourne also believed that immigrants should hold on to their culture and told Americans they should embrace it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

On the other side of the Sahara were many great cultures that were isolated from the rest of the world. ... The barbarous "triangle trade" began shortly after Europeans began exploring the west coast of Africa. ... The Europeans explored the interior of Africa to expand trade. ... Much of Europe's economy was destroyed in the Second World War, and the European governments could not afford to send armies to Africa to suppress nationalist movements. ... Great Britain assumed control of South Africa in 1795, after the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. ...

• Word Count: 2251
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• Grade Level: High School

French Huguenots later joined the Dutch, and by the 18th century most Khoikhoi had lost their lands to these European settlers. The colonists, mostly farmers and cattle herders, became known as Boers, and soon developed their own distinctive culture and language (Afrikaans). ... In the mid-1980s the U.S. and the European Community (now European Union) imposed sanctions against South Africa. ...

• Word Count: 1235
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• Grade Level: High School

In this novel, James Weldon Johnson uses black language, but he is not renowned to the black culture. ... By passing he has denied himself of his entire culture; he has become too involved with the white culture to be a part of his own. ... In Europe he lives with a millionaire and passes as a white man. When he has the desire to return to the South and live as a black man again, the millionaire shuns the black culture. ... He abandoned his race and chose to turn his back on his culture, his heritage and his birthright. ...

• Word Count: 1633
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• Grade Level: High School

This is in part do to the lack of identity or sense of culture slaves possessed. Unlike South Africa where there was a strong sense of tribal unity or in Brazil where slaves were imported relatively frequently giving them a sense of family and a bond with each other, American slaves were second or third generation slaves who new nothing of there culture or native lands and who where stripped from there family at a early age. ... They were also very subseptable to disease from Europeans killing off most of the population, they also knew the terrain of the land to well and could escape their ...

• Word Count: 2418
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• Grade Level: High School

Numerous events of political racism have taken place in the past, including enslavement of Africans by the Romans, black slavery in America, the mistreatment of aboriginals in various countries, European colonialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and countless others. ... Board of Education supreme court ruling in 1957 which forced desegregation of American schools, there was much controversy over the extent that blacks should be allowed into white-American culture. ... ("Racism, Prisons, and the Future of Black America" 2000) Because of these inju...

• Word Count: 1377
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Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people either prayed to their own Gods or (especially in north and central Africa) followed the teachings of the Koran. But in the eyes of most Europeans, all Africans were ignorant, pagan savages who needed to be introduced to Christianity and Western civilisation. ... While Whites looked back proudly on their achievements in history and culture, Blacks were denied their identity. Their kingdoms and complex societies were ignored in the white man's interpretation of history, there were few publications about their cu...

• Word Count: 3965
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• Grade Level: High School

W.E.B. wasn't only trying to help blacks; he wanted to help Asian, Latin, and European-Americans also. ... Whites thought that this was a good idea and Booker T. was accepted into white culture. ...

• Word Count: 902
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So why then are people of a different race, color, culture, or religion treated with disrespect and hate? Racism is a crime of hate, hate against another person, or race because of color, culture or beliefs. ... In Europe Jewish people were discriminated against and murdered, in the United States Japanese Americans and Negroes were isolated and treated harshly. ... In Europe Jewish people were being discriminated against and killed because of their beliefs. ...

• Word Count: 2342
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• Grade Level: High School

Squeaky illustrates how essential respect is in her life and both stories demonstrate strong references to African American culture and protest at discrimination against black people. ... Toni Cade Bambara also expresses different aspects of their culture and explores the question, "Are they really heroines?" ...

• Word Count: 2209
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While many people in the United States frowned upon both homosexuality and interracial dating, Baldwin found social freedom and privacy while in Europe. ... The play was a racial wake-up call to all of the races and cultures in the United States, which might find racism or ethnocentrism as a social "security blanket". ...

• Word Count: 1677
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Through his works, Baldwin's arguments for civil rights transcend colour boundaries and stress the idea that "regardless of race or culture, we are all human beings, and should be treated as such" (http://www.galenet.com, pg. 15). ... The essay was mainly autobiographical and impressionistic while offering sharp and perceptive comments on a variety of subjects that were to overlap with the material treated in Baldwin's fiction: the novel of protect, ghetto life in Harlem, and black-white encounters in Europe. ...

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For centuries there has been a distinct rift between the white man and the black man. The white man ostracizes and looks down on the black man, whom he views as beneath him. The blacks are not completely uncivilized, they are just perceived as savage to the white man. When the white man enters into ...

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1. Introduction This term paper will be about the magazine FIRE !! which was published during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. For the first time important figures ( writers ) of the Harlem Renaissance worked together, they found out that it was a great chance to show the blacks that, if they stick together, things could work out fine. I start to take a short look at the political and social situation of the blacks in the twenties and of course I look at the most influential writers at this time. ...

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Divided We Fall John Davis, a 28 year old African-American software engineer who has an annual income of $110,000, waits for a real estate agent in front of a beautiful two-story house in Kirkwood. He owns a small software company called Hi-Tex that is located only a couple of blocks from his...

• Word Count: 2726
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School