These complications dealt with race, religion, and gender. Racial disputes largely involved Native Americans, African Americans, and Mexicans, while religious disagreements involved mostly Catholic discrimination and the ideas of strict Protestantism. ... It was clear that Americans justified taking away Indian land, and they continuously pushed Native Americans westward in order to extend and expand United States boundaries. ... Racial discrimination through minority groups such as Native Americans, African Americans, and Mexicans is one aspect of the injustices dealing with Manifest Destiny....

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Instead they divided each other based on profession (such as kings, merchants and peasants) and religion. ... Another important thing to add is that, religion was a crucial part of European development in medieval times. ... Spaniards "turn the newly dis-covered primitive native into a mere object of a thing which acquires meaning only when it enters the world of the European" [ CITATION Enr88 l 1033 ]. ... Ultimately, what the Europeans did was, "deprive the native peoples of their cultures and identities- in effect, to enslave them" [ CITATION Edm69 l 1033]. America was ...

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Therefore, he was wrong in alienating Colonial America as the only one effected by cultural blending. This brings one to magnify the view on Colonial America. Crevecoeur correctly stated that an American was one who willingly seized the opportunities offered, seeking a better life, changing a nobody into a somebody who was a useful citizen in society; but he adapted the wrong idea that all immigrants transformed into the same American. For example, many of the English, Germans, and Scots-Irish came to share in the freedom of religion and a democracy, but the English were either Puritan or A...

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The damages African Americans have sustained from White America because of slavery have been agonizing and inhumane. ... African Americans have no native language or any African customs to connect them to Africa. ... The U.S. government has a moral responsibility to this race of people to compensate, from which they denied their heritage, religion, family, and culture. ... Well, America promised African Americans 40 acres and a mule. ... America pays false imprisoned citizens in America. ...

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Groups may be almost identical physiologically, yet be divided against each other on the basis of culture, language, religion, nationality. ... Racist" and "racism" are provocative words in American society. ... African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and Asian Americans (people-of-color) live daily with the effects of both institutional and individual racism. ... Some Americans believe that race is the primary determinant of human abilities and capacities. Some Americans behave as if racial differences produce inherent superiority in European Americans (whites). ...

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Some ethnic groups also share linguistic or religious traits, while others share a common group history but not a common language or religion. ... A tendency of immigrants was to lose much of their native cultural heritage and conform to the Anglo-Core culture of the United States. ... Most cultures have a stake in America. America, sort of, belongs to everyone in a sense. ... America is not just about physical land. ...

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It is also based on the idea that some races are much more superior as compared to others[ CITATION Bre04 l 1033 ] Racial inequalities began as far back as the Native Americans when they were killed by white men for their land. ... He advocated for equal treatment for every American in the United States. ... Globalization has had an immense influence on the ethnic map of America. From the beginning of 1960, immigration has heightened in the American society. ... The economic implications of Black Americans differ from that of other minority groups. ...

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The most common targeted of racial profiling are individuals of African American descent, along with Hispanics and Muslims. ... Other immigrants were labeled as unhealthy due to the fact that their native country were stricken with diseases and famine and thought to be rampant. ... Individuals were being targeted not only because of their race and ethnicity, but because of their religion. ... Racial profiling impacts the integrity of America and its ideals because equal rights do not apply to everyone. ... " President Barack Obama, July 22, 2009 In addition to targeting the African...

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