Our society is riddled with such hatred based on peoples' beliefs and origins and it seems millions are fighting each other for no relevant reason at all. ... In an essay name " Why Does My Race Matter " Yasamine Bahrani mentions: " I prefer to take my chances as an American among other Americans, and not to construct an alternate identity out of my ethnic origins as a shield against hurt. Don't misunderstand; I could not be more proud of those origins (despite troubles in my native land) and the magnificent history and language that accompany them. ... She believes since she is livi...

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Weisband's lecture he refers to this as to "thingify" because the word "rei" is Latin for thing. ... Martha Nussbaum's writing in Unit 2 helps explain emotional origins of reification. ... In other cases, the white people may have felt extreme pride at one time and then this pride turned into vanity which is an origin of reification. ... When one reifies an entire group of people then that is considered ethnic lumping and the origins of prejudice and racism. ...

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Although the Anglo-Saxons were not the origin of prejudicial views, the culture contributed immensely to the growth of prejudices in a time when the ideas were still forming, and impact on cultures now is the result of the Anglo-Saxon's eminence; evidence of the growth of prejudice can be seen through the division amongst the people. ... The Anglo-Saxons, however, were not at the origin of these contributions. ...

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Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts...

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