(Blalock, 1960), and this leads to unbalanced power relationships between dominant and subordinate groups, which, in turn, results in in-group bias and out group discrimination (Blalock, 1960). Ignorance of other cultures and values is another cause of prejudice in U.S. It is a special problem in the United States, where people of different racial, religious, and national backgrounds live together in close proximity and ignore the culture of each other. Racial prejudice and discrimination are often the source of these conflicts, as one group will view another group in a negative way and treat them unfairly. It is correlated with education level as well. Further, a person's sex, religion, or membership in a sub-cultural group can profoundly influence racial prejudice construction and thoughts (Byrnes & Kiger, 1992).
There are many effects of racial discrimination on people include: genocide, segregation and assimilation. Genocide, the intentional destruction of a specific group, is an important subject for scholars of state crimes, yet it remains underexplored within the discipline. In light of the increasing pervasiveness of genocide in the twentieth century, it is perhaps surprising that genocide studies have tended to be the remit of historians and theologians (Elder, 2005). United Nations Convention on Genocide dictates that genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group: Killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. The second one is Segregation which define as "separation of humans into racial groups in daily life" Paul (2005). It may apply to activities such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a public toilet, attending school, going to the movies, riding on a bus, or in the rental or purchase of a home.