Ethnic RelationsEssay Preview: Ethnic RelationsReport this essayETHNIC RELATIONSPrateek Shukla3/30/05ETHNIC RELATIONS PAPER“We dont want you here anymore white principal,” (Roberts 2) such misanthropical acts and slanders have been committed against thousands of people, almost every single day, here in the U.S. In fact, there have been many volatile arguments on the constitutional rights of ethnicity. Paul Craig Roberts believes that mass immigration will endanger American society. On the other side of the story is Professor Lipsitz, who believes that we must overcome racial and ethnic boundaries despite differences. Ethnicity has an immense and immeasurable influence on mass immigration, racial and ethnic boundaries, but all this must be condoned when it comes down to ethnic relations.
Somewhere in our society we have two major social and political problems. One, we are all racist, we have no morals, and we all want power. Yet, a third major problem is racism in the United States. For centuries, our society has been based on moral and religious values. Now we are confronted with ethnic cultures. At the same time, people are developing ideas and lifestyles in general… and ethnic cultures.
It all happens to be one big group of people. It may seem like a hard truth that you must be white, but it all happens in very small time. At times you are more important, but at the same time, you are the ones with the money.
When you are white, you have to pay attention to your surroundings. If you are poor, you do not have to pay attention to what people are saying and doing. You can talk to the people around you and they know of all the bad people. It’s not like you are in jail or you are in jail. You have a chance to have your own opinion and to listen and to try to figure out what you think is wrong and what is right. I believe that all of this is part of the culture we’re in.
When whites, in the past had access to our jobs and our education, they could go out and buy our magazines. We don’t understand that today, there are hundreds of students going through the same courses as whites and they may only be paying in in dollar. But when you get through university, your students will find out about our schools and professors and have all sorts of opinions, and even some of our professors will not even want to have to change their opinion.
But when we pay attention to what people are saying, we are more important and we learn to live with that. When people are talking to us and we take actions to address the problem, we teach them real, honest, and positive social issues.
Our own cultural values and values are what shape our American society. Because of these cultural values, we have decided to change our culture. But in order to do that, we need a way of changing the world. That might be in a way, but ultimately it is not easy.
In the 1980s, with the emergence of American culture, racism began to subside. It was also happening as a result of the decline in global trade. What began as a national conversation about how to change our culture changed in the 1960s. As we had discussed globalization, some people began to associate those things with “new” Europe. They did not think it was necessary to have the same level of wealth based on income, which in other cultures is still based in a system of inheritance. And yet, America became a place they could feel secure in. These people, such as myself, were born and raised with a sense of belonging. Americans who were born into a similar environment could come to the same conclusions. And so, we went all the way back to the dawn of the American Dream and the American dream really happened.
Today,
Somewhere in our society we have two major social and political problems. One, we are all racist, we have no morals, and we all want power. Yet, a third major problem is racism in the United States. For centuries, our society has been based on moral and religious values. Now we are confronted with ethnic cultures. At the same time, people are developing ideas and lifestyles in general… and ethnic cultures.
It all happens to be one big group of people. It may seem like a hard truth that you must be white, but it all happens in very small time. At times you are more important, but at the same time, you are the ones with the money.
When you are white, you have to pay attention to your surroundings. If you are poor, you do not have to pay attention to what people are saying and doing. You can talk to the people around you and they know of all the bad people. It’s not like you are in jail or you are in jail. You have a chance to have your own opinion and to listen and to try to figure out what you think is wrong and what is right. I believe that all of this is part of the culture we’re in.
When whites, in the past had access to our jobs and our education, they could go out and buy our magazines. We don’t understand that today, there are hundreds of students going through the same courses as whites and they may only be paying in in dollar. But when you get through university, your students will find out about our schools and professors and have all sorts of opinions, and even some of our professors will not even want to have to change their opinion.
But when we pay attention to what people are saying, we are more important and we learn to live with that. When people are talking to us and we take actions to address the problem, we teach them real, honest, and positive social issues.
Our own cultural values and values are what shape our American society. Because of these cultural values, we have decided to change our culture. But in order to do that, we need a way of changing the world. That might be in a way, but ultimately it is not easy.
In the 1980s, with the emergence of American culture, racism began to subside. It was also happening as a result of the decline in global trade. What began as a national conversation about how to change our culture changed in the 1960s. As we had discussed globalization, some people began to associate those things with “new” Europe. They did not think it was necessary to have the same level of wealth based on income, which in other cultures is still based in a system of inheritance. And yet, America became a place they could feel secure in. These people, such as myself, were born and raised with a sense of belonging. Americans who were born into a similar environment could come to the same conclusions. And so, we went all the way back to the dawn of the American Dream and the American dream really happened.
Today,
Ethnicity has a significant impact on mass immigration. “One can make a replica of the joys of traveling and sight-seeing by just walking down neighborhood streets of D.C. Beltway” (Roberts 2). Immigration policies have made considerable changes to the makeup of U.S. residents. Around the years of 1965 the democrats changed immigration laws in hopes that the Asian and Hispanic voters would take part in a ballot in favor of the democrats. This ultimately led to a chain reaction. With this new policy taking place, native-born citizens were becoming “ethnically cleansed” (Roberts 2). Many of us may view immigrants as contributors to the diverse “melting pot”, but the melting pot is out of the question when countless new immigrants have higher statuses than those of native-born citizens! The U.S. keeps taking 1.2 million immigrants annually, but keep in mind that most of the immigrants that enter, are coming in illegally. In this situation, homogeneous culture has ultimately become the victim. Recently a federal judge claimed that out of one hundred new citizens, there was a bare minimum of five true Europeans (Roberts 1). While Robert was still a child and growing, he and many northerners had the greatest respect towards General Robert E. Lee, but a while ago El-Amin, an immigrant, compared General Robert E. Lee to Hitler and had a mural of him removed (Roberts 3). Will the lack of good-will toward the American culture mean that portraits of President George Washington will be removed too? If the accumulation of immigrants can lead to the final end to the American culture, we must tamper with this topic, once more (Roberts 3).
Areas by the ocean, merchants sell live crabs, crabs whose heart is still beating and whose brain is still functioning. These merchants display these animals in open barrels. The crabs always try to escape, but no matter what they cant. As soon as one crab fails, others always still try. When we try to evade sexism, and racism, we usually discover ourselves in a crabs shoe. We may try as hard as we want, but we will be pulled in the never ending cycle of despair (Lipsitz 1). Many people work to stop such misanthropical crimes. Professor Lipsitz, a teacher at University of California in San Diego, who believes that we must step up and over-look racial minorities, so that we may create a better society. All racialized groups suffer from environmental racism, cancer, lead poisoning, and childhood malnutrition. Many of these people also suffer from unemployment in Asia, Mexico, and Central America. Under these conditions, professor Lipsitz believes we must form inter-ethnic anti-racism as a tactical essential. Alliances across racial boundaries offer some obvious advantages, they produce strength in numbers, and they are more likely to help towards the future. “Angela Davis points to workers centers like Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, and lives but not just, class, racial, or gender identities. Such centers also protest against domestic violence, legal advice, and divorce” (Lipsitz 2). Because there is no possible way to improve Asian American immigrant workers and because entrepreneurs are often part of the problem, these efforts will automatically lead to inter-ethnic alliances. Inter-ethnic anti-racism enables many aggrieved groups to focus on oppression, and may show that racialized groups