The so-called, "United States of America," has always been the Native American's land but why do Americans consider it theirs now? ... Besides food, the Native Americans were always short of money. ... There is a way Native Americans live, though. ... First, an American sees little value in the Native Americans, then Native Americans being see the little value for each other. Americans would not care if the value of Native Americans are clear because they want the Native Indians to disappear into history. ...

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Racial disputes largely involved Native Americans, African Americans, and Mexicans, while religious disagreements involved mostly Catholic discrimination and the ideas of strict Protestantism. ... This new concept influenced Americans to start believing they were the only race fit to live and govern the nation of the United States, and this created somewhat of racial discrimination between settlers, African Americans, Native Americans, and Mexicans. It was clear that Americans justified taking away Indian land, and they continuously pushed Native Americans westward in order to extend and expan...

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Long before the white man set foot on Canadian and Saskatchewan soil, the Indians, or rather the Native Canadians had been living in North America. ... It is believed that the first Native Americans arrived during the last ice age, approximately 20,000 - 30,000 years ago through a land bridge across the Bering Sound, from northeastern Siberia into Alaska. So, when the Europeans started to arrive in the 16th- and 17th-century they were met by Native Americans, and enthusiastically so. ... They believed that the Indian's rightful land belonged to the Queen, and ignored the fact that the Na...

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(Native Son- Book 3:Fate) Richard Wright may well have felt the same way as Bigger felt about his bloody act of violence, about the act of writing Native Son. ... In Native Son, Wright uses words as weapons. ... He whacked harder, but the head would not come off."" - Native Son p106 Book 1: Fear I find this passage from Native Son to be extremely graphic and brutal. ... However, he symbolizes the feelings that all black Americans may have had during this time. Perhaps this is way he titled his story Native Son. ...

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Within this tale, there is always the mention of the Native Americans, the ones who taught us to farm and understand the ways the North American lands worked in comparison to European ones most of the travelers had previously been accustomed. ... What right did we have to take that land, when it was owned by several Native American tribes whom travelers, hunters, and journalists transformed from human beings with various cultures into savages all because of the different ways they lived, their speech, their styles of clothing, and probably more so, their skin color. ... African Americans show ...

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TV in the past did indeed stereotype the Native Americans. ... It also implicates the Native Americans scalp their captives and enemies. A few other TV stereotypes are that Native Americans are tall, light skinned, and have long jet black hair. I have to admit that I know some stereotypes of Native Americans of my own and believed them when I was younger. ... I also thought that all Native Americans scalped the victims. ...

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I did however notice, after researching for this assignment, that none of the handbooks, guidelines or benefit packets given to each employee come in any other language than English I would think that being that there are so many different ethnic groups there, and some of the people speak their native language, that they would offer manuals in the native language. ... The Pueblo Chieftain, which is our local news paper, has several journalists that are of the Hispanic culture and do a very good job with recognizing the Hispanic Americans in my community. ... There are also advertisements that...

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Chapter 2: Native American vs. European Women Native American Women were living on the land that is called North America today for thousands of years. ... Native American women did most of the farming and agricultural work. ... This was a disadvantage for Native American women. ... Native American women were now trapped in a life of limitations like the European women. ...

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There's a dark history behind America's achievement, but many American left it out of their history. ... Even in Shakespeare's The Tempest, the character named Caliban was seen as savage, like the native Indians. ... If native people are seen as savage and uncivilized, this gave the civilized people an idea to do whatever they wish because the natives are not seen as human. ... In his book, A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America, we seem to think that America is full of white people and they're the majorities. ... Besides, I think not all Americans are fro...

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America had also taken a bite from the forbidden fruit. ... The idea of race differences had become an instrumental part of American social structure. ... This event dealt with the genocide of the Native Americans. ... Native American burial mounds and earthworks, discovered in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, became a particular topic of discussion. ... Racial superiority also provided justification for the treatment of slaves, and for the exploitation and genocide of Native Americans. ...

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The Native Americans wanted the same as anyone would, peace and freedom for their people. The Native Americans did not consider "white way of living righteous" for them, they were spiritual and had a different outlook on life, and did not want interference from outside world. ... Where he was given a gift from Great Spirits to save the Indian civilization by driving a way the Wasichus from their native land. ... Many people have different views on the persecution of Native Americans, some think that it was all Indians" fault and that they caused their own suffering, which I think is absolutely...

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The Native Americans wanted the same as anyone would, peace and freedom for their people. The Native Americans did not consider "white way of living righteous" for them, they were spiritual and had a different outlook on life, and did not want interference from outside world. ... Where he was given a gift from Great Spirits to save the Indian civilization by driving a way the Wasichus from their native land. ... Many people have different views on the persecution of Native Americans, some think that it was all Indians" fault and that they caused their own suffering, which I think is absolutely...

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One of his best works was a short story entitled, Notes of a Native Son. ... During World War II, America needed its citizens to help out. ... As he tried to get over all of the things that have been happening to him, he and his white friend went to the American Diner. ... The irony of the situation is that the name of the diner is the American Diner. This is showing how America treats the black man in his own country. ...

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Brace is an American anthropologist at the University of Michigan. ... As a result, this concept cannot apply to groups normally deemed races, such as African Americans, Asians, Native Americans, and Whites. ... Centuries ago, Europeans discovered that there were Native Americans living in the "new world," which is present United States. Many Native Americans were slaughtered by the Europeans, because they felt superior and felt as though it was their right. ... Slavery has been abolished in the United States for almost 150 years, yet a lot of Americans still see African Americans as...

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Irish, Mexicans, Italians, and Native Americans have all been exploited throughout our history. However, only African Americans had the laws that forced them to be demoralized. ... African-Americans were not the only group persecuted in this country. Just as mentioned earlier, there are many groups that were persecuted; therefore, if we give reparations to blacks then where must we draw the line with Italians, Irish, Mexicans, and Native Americans? ... He almost contradicted himself in the article with respect to Mexicans, Irish, Native Americans, and Italians because it is clear that mayb...

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(Wright 1) On July 4th, 1776, our nation, the United States of America, was founded on the belief of personal freedom. ... Famous author Richard Wright has endorsed the fight for equal rights and opportunities among African Americans. In Richard Wright's Native Son, Bigger Thomas, the main character, attempts to attain personal freedom in a racist prohibiting society. Richard Wright's "Native Son" demonstrates how the racist white society oppresses personal freedom and perpetuates evil. ... In Native Son, Bigger Thomas seems to be composed of a mass of disruptive emotions rath...

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To stay precise, in order to completely understand the following analysis, I am a Serbian male born and living in America: Serbian by race/ethnicity (Caucasian), Serbo-American by identity. ... We are a Slavic nation native to the Balkans (southeast Europe). ... I'm a Serbian-American. ... Americans and Serbs have a mutual dislike for each other. ... Serbs view Americans in a negative light, and Americans view Serbs in a negative light (for the most part). ...

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Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States Today The United States has divided its population into five racial/ethnic groups, namely: European-Americans or Caucasian (74%); African-Americans (12%); Latinos (10%); Asian-Americans (3%); and Native-Americans (1%). ... A most publicized example of hate crime is that of James Byrd, Jr., an African-American from Jasper, Texas, who was dragged to death behind a truck in 1998. ... In the U.S., while public attention has tended to focus on the disproportionate number of minority youth (traditionally defined as African-American, Native-American, ...

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Many people came from all over the world for many reasons, such as religious persecution, economic difficulties, and racial tension, but the largest reason for coming to America was for freedom. ... Although immigrant people's lives are very hard, they can do everything like native people. Most of the successful businessmen are immigrants and they have strange abilities to compete with native people. ... In spite of Asian American immigrant are also discriminated against and had not achieved equality with whites, they never give up their lives. Their influence on American institution and ...

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(Lipsitz xix) Lipsitz offers compelling, emotional, and historical facts and stories to support his claim that America has an investment in whiteness. ... "During colonial times, colonials gave rewards to the Native Americans for the capture of black runaway slaves. The reverse was also a consequence of the investment in whiteness, black slaves were recruited into militias in order to fight the Native Americans (Lipsitz 3). ... (Lipsitz 71) In America, Asians have also faced the implications of the possessive investment in whiteness. Japanese and Japanese Americans, during World War II, were ...

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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. ... The white Americans had always been able to keep African-Americans from being allowed the same opportunities as they had, now they saw blacks as threats to their way of life. ... Although blacks and whites are equal under American law, they are far from being equal socially. ... It is also due to stereotypes of natives being "savages" and "drunks" that have limited potenti...

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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. And, in America, English is the primary language. America is not just about physical land. ...

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The first quatrain draws upon her new self as an American. ... As an African American woman slave, Wheatley had to read only what was thoughtfully handed down to her by white Americans. ... Wheatley's skillfully chose to write in a level that was at her audience's caliber; "and it must be borne in mind that she was neither reading, nor writing, nor speaking to her audience in her native language," (Kafka 46). ... Phillis Wheatley used double meanings to speak what was otherwise unspeakable from her position as an African American woman slave in Revolutionary America. ... She parallel...

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Throughout all of his travels away from his native home of Jamaica, he realized one thing remained the same and that was the way everyone else treated people of black decent. ... When he first launched the UNIA he did not garner as much support as he had hoped in his native country so sought to take his ambitions to America in order to spark the oppressed minds of the African Americans. ... Washington before traveling to America in hopes to receive his support. ... Just as it had been done by America against the British. ... The Negro World wasn't exclusive to just American blacks. ...

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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. ... Racial profiling impacts the integrity of America and its ideals because equal rights do not apply to everyone. ... It continues to be a egregious and prevalent form of discrimination that stains the American democracy compromising racial equality. ... " President Barack Obama, July 22, 2009 In addition ...

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