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    Still to this day‚ slavery and the following inequality in race have brought down the African race in America. Examples like the Freedom Train in the 1940s that made concessions to white Southerners‚ and even as far as today in Hurricane Katrina where government support took incredibly long to respond and aid the people of mostly poor African communities that were flooded. Another example is of the differences in home ownership. “Equity in Owner Occupied Housing is most of the wealth for most Americans”

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    The United States of America has an extensive history of oppressing essentially everyone who is not a straight‚ white‚ land-owning‚ wealthy‚ cis-gender man and included within this list of oppressed is women. Throughout the ages‚ women have had to and continue to fight for many rights through social‚ economic‚ and political venues. One of these rights‚ and area of public policy‚ are reproductive rights. Reproductive rights are a broad area of public policy that encompasses sexual education‚ family

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    and Discrimination The Chinese immigrated to the United States in during the 1800s; Official records show that before 1857‚ 46 Chinese immigrants were in the United States. Over the next 30 years more that 200‚000 Chinese had immigrated to the United States. This immigration wave was largely because of the push of the awful conditions in China and the pull of the discovery of gold‚ and‚ job opportunities in the west (Immigration and the United States‚ Schafer‚ 2006). During the 1860s railroad work

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    Culture Conflict is a big problem in the united states. Culture conflict has affected life today because it changed the way people think. Culture conflicts are big problems still till today because many people use culture as a way to identify a person. For example‚ people assume muslims are terrorist. The reason for that is only because of 9/11. In google it shows that .006625% of muslims are actually terrorist which shows a small percentage. People use excuses to hide the fact that they afraid

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    Sex trafficking is a terrible widespread phenomenon in the United States. Human trafficking ranks 3rd in world crime. An U.N. agency estimated the total value of human trafficking at $150 billion. (Tampa bay times) The Government Accountability Office wrote that "human trafficking involves the exploitation of a person typically through force‚ fraud for the purpose of forced labor‚ involuntary servitude or commercial sex." Desperate people might go into debt to smugglers who place them in jobs.

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    Pieces of the People’s Puzzle In total there are fifteen laws that count towards the topic of civil rights in the United States‚ alone. Kenji Yoshino‚ author of “The New Civil Rights” says that in order for us to turn our current beliefs into a set of ‘new’ civil rights‚ law must play a role. Obvious enough‚ law alone cannot bring about a new set of civil rights. There are more than enough pieces that could make up this puzzle. For instance‚ media plays a huge role in this situation. The media

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    Latino America and Asian America—there’s the United States of America.” In this statement he spoke to the national pride of every American. Nationalism is an ideology which asserts that an individual’s allegiance to the nation state surpasses other segregational differences such as race‚ religion‚ gender or sexuality. It provides a collective identity for people whose single greatest commonality is their belief in the strength and power of the nation state. Slogans and symbols‚ like a country’s flag

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    The war on drugs is one of the wars that every nation claims to be carrying out. The United States of America is considered as one of the vibrant drug trafficking regions globally. The war of drugs in the United States of America therefore rates as one of the longest wars in the nation (Lurigio‚ 2008 pg. 87). Ideally‚ it has taken approximately forty years since the kick-off of the war. Despite the fact the war may appear to be plain from the word of mouth‚ it posses unimaginable consequences on

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    Repression in American history is often just seen as the period in time in which black bodies were used as slaves. In “Political Repression in the United States” by Michael Rogin‚ the definition of what suppression is has been opened in a wide-ranging spectrum. Rogin uses the meaning of the word as white Americans did when under European power‚ how it applied to the Red individual also known as the Natives when they were founded‚ and then the black slaves used by the founding fathers. Rogin’s overall

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    intimacy‚ while boys are forced to separate from their mothers to be strong and independent. Then from media‚ school‚ peers and religion institution‚ children gradually learned what is to be expected from people who are different from themselves in ethnicity and gender‚ for instance. The large amount of information readily available to us today also increases stereotyping. Since it is impossible to take in all the information‚ individuals have to cope with information overload by simplifying what is

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