... would have to define both the terms "culture" and "ethnic", and then try to put the two ideas together to see what happens. The Webster dictionary defines culture as: ..the total pattern of human behavior and artifacts and depending on man's capacity of learning and transmitting knowledge through the use of tools ... Can that culture survive the other drivers? This brings us to the need to look at ethnicity to see how it is defined and worked. The Websters Dictionary (2002) defines the term ethnic as: 2a: relating to community of physical and mental traits possessed by members of a grou...

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... race. Racial profiling has been historically ineffective, and it will continue to be ineffective in the future. A terrorist is not, by definition, Arab. According to Dictionary.com, a terrorist is anyone who uses "terror as a political weapon- (Dictionary.com). If the government continues to rely on racial profiling to track down terror suspects, it is not doing its job to protect American citizens ... increasing problem since September 11th. Hundreds of people who either are or appear to be Arab have been detained, searched, interrogated, and banned from flights. Michael Dasrath, a U.S...

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