Language can act as a barrier in communities and can divide people against each other. When people speak different languages, it can often cause feelings of resentment toward the person who can not understand. Language can be used to ridicule or humiliate other people who do not understand the other language. “Sometimes these things are innocuous, depending on the particular word in which it is used. Often the serve to ridicule or humiliate.” (Leong pg.354) Sometimes when another person is speaking anther language, another person may believe that that person is saying something bad about him/her. Language can often define insiders from outsiders in a specific community. “Language has the ability to heal or harm, praise or belittle, to promote peace, or even glorify hate.” (Leong pg.354) If a person hears another person speaking anothe

Racial communities more often than not divide certain communities from one another. Many times a racial community will exclude other communities from being welcome into their community. Racial communities can build tension between other racial communities. Racial communities can often be dominated from other communities and leave a sense of inferiorness. “It would all be true, the accusations that we were lower types of human beings. Only a little higher than apes.” (Angelou pg.54) Often times a racial community that is dominated by another community may feel they need to defend themselves from the other community and may take action that may lead to more hate in the long run. (My race groaned. It was our people falling. It was another lynching, yet another Black man hanging on a tree.” (Angelou pg.53) Also, distrust may build between two racial communities and furthermore cause more problems and tension.

War can often have divisive properties and also have uniting properties at the same time. War can tear nations apart and cause deep rooted hatred. War can destroy lives, and cause divisions between nations, races, and countries. War can effect nations not only in the present, but in the future. Communities at war with each other will tend to cause tension and harsh feelings during the war and also ca

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