Race and Ethnicity
During the times of slavery, a slave was considered only three fifths a person and two fifths property. This is based on political classification of a group of people, which at the time were considered more as taxable property than as a group of people with rights. Sociology tells us that race is not determined by biological characteristics completely, but that race is socially constructed by how society treats the groups historically and socially based on bioligical characteristics that have been given some level of social importance. Adolf Hitler racialized an ethnic group, the Jewish, and considered them a race of people, based on the fact that in “his” society, the Jews were in his eyes a biologically inferior group of people in comparison to his “race,” the Aryans, which were a biologically and idealogically engineered group of people formed to suit his distorted vi
My curiosity after these readings is mostly morally based. How can we allow ourselves as civilized people to act in such away as to judge or classify people, as Martin Luther King Jr. said “Based on the color of their skin rather than the quality of their character?”Why must we continue to allow governments to classify people based on their value to the economy? Why do we still persecute groups based upon their social, religious, or political beliefs? sion of a perfect world. Nowadays, post 9/11/2001, the most persecuted group of people in America based on race and/or ethnicity are the Arab Americans. What is more surprising, is that Indian Americans are mistakenly considered Arab Americans and persecuted as well, based upon dress, skin color, and dialect. This predjudice is rooted in ethnocentrism, where one ethnic group see’s itself as superior to another by judging one gro
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King Jr,
Adolf Hitler,
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Native Americans,
American Indian,
Indian Americans,
Jew Asian,
race determined,
persecute based,
arab americans,
skin color,
people based,
classify people,
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