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Race and Ethnicity in the United States

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&NewLine;<&sol;script>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">From the beginning of the country&comma; gender&comma; class and race have been significant element in the individual’s experience in United States&period; A meaning of the gender differences&comma; class separation and race have changed the history of United States&period; For Americans&comma; the view of race and class&comma; and degree for which gender discrimination affect the lives of people&comma; mostly depend on their gender&comma; class and race too&period; Several differences have been found among America’s reality&comma; media reality&comma; and perceived reality&period; In United States&comma; nationals and also outsiders have some confusion and questions in their perspective regarding the real connections between gender&comma; class and race &lpar;Wade&comma; 2017&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">American media is one of the biggest exports of the American culture&period; It is one of the widely consumed and distributed forms of culture in United States&period; It clearly means that Americans not only consume own media in large quantities&comma; but other countries also consume American media&period; However&comma; nationals of other countries do not understand or interpret the media same way as Americans do&comma; however&comma; different aspect and angles of the American reality and culture are viewed in other countries through media content&period; Media is one of the most significant tool for discussing class&comma; gender or race in America&period; It takes viewer for discriminating and understanding the accuracy of proportion found of minority and ethnic groups&period; As stated by &lpar;Omi&comma; 628-629&rpar; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Film and television have been notorious in disseminating images of racial minorities which establish for audiences what these groups look like&comma; how they behave&comma; and &comma; in essence&comma; &&num;8220&semi;who they are&&num;8221&semi;&period; The power of the media lies not only in their ability to reflect the dominant racial ideology&comma; but in their capacity to shape that ideology in the first place&&num;8221&semi;&period; &lpar;Cook&comma; 2017&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Even during the Presidential election of Barack Obama&comma; who was the first nonwhite President in history of United States&comma; has contributed in distorted perception&comma; which decreases racial barriers in American society&period; White people in America have the privilege in United States and different perception related to the effects of class&comma; gender and race on their culture and to nonwhites&period; White Americans are seen in lower classes and upper-middle class but nonwhites exist more below poverty line as compare to white Americans &lpar;Yanow&comma; 2015&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">According to Goldberg&comma; &lpar;2016&rpar;&comma; Columbus sailed Ocean Blue in 1492&comma; and everyone is aware about his story&comma; as it is taught in primary schools or before it&period; When he was landing in United States&comma; he was unaware that he is exploring or developing the biggest Melting Pot of the world&period; This &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Melting Pot” means that a new country&comma; which is made from the mixture of different beliefs and cultures&comma; hence&comma; creating the new changing-culture and new country&period; The complication with the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Melting Pot” is that individuals are unable to put individuals of different ethnicity and race together without the conflict&period; The conflict is defined as &&num;8220&semi;A state of disharmony between incompatible or antithetical persons&comma; ideas&comma; or interests&semi; a clash&period;&&num;8221&semi; &lpar;Murji&comma; and Solomos&comma; 2015&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">It all started from the columnist&comma; who work and farm by themselves on the land&comma; which mostly were stolen&period; Gradually with the passing years&comma; they started to realize that they should not work on their own&comma; if they have other people for doing this for them&period; And then shipping of the slaves from Africa started&period; Thousands of slaves were gathered and brought in this foreign lands as slaves by the white people on the basis of race&period; And then these racial differences formed America&period; The foundation of United States was on conflict and tension&period; And so this strained was obvious and continued after the abolishment of the slavery&period; People lash out on other races for making themselves better&period; The use of phrases like &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;hating crimes” were also popping up&period; In the last century&comma; American Africans were considered as the inferior groups because of their race&period; Areas were designated for the colored and white people&period; Colored nationals were forbidden to eat at certain places&comma; and not even permitted to drink water from same fountain white drank&period; The discrimination was also done on the basis of ethnicity groups&period; They degrade minorities and do not protect their rights&period; Minorities were humiliated at many times &lpar;Yanow&comma; 2015&rpar;&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">References<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"left">Cook&comma; B&period;&comma; 2017&period; What impact has Ethnic Studies had on Black men &lpar;Doctoral dissertation&comma; San Francisco State University&rpar;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Goldberg&comma; D&period;T&period;&comma; 2016&period; Racial subjects&colon; Writing on race in America&period; Routledge&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Murji&comma; K&period; and Solomos&comma; J&period; eds&period;&comma; 2015&period; Theories of Race and Ethnicity&period; Cambridge University Press&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Wade&comma; P&period;&comma; 2017&period; Race and ethnicity in Latin America&period; Pluto press&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Yanow&comma; D&period;&comma; 2015&period; Constructing&&num;8221&semi; race&&num;8221&semi; and&&num;8221&semi; ethnicity&&num;8221&semi; in America&colon; Category-making in Public Policy and Administration&period; Routledge&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&NewLine;<&excl;--CusAds0-->&NewLine;<div style&equals;"font-size&colon; 0px&semi; height&colon; 0px&semi; line-height&colon; 0px&semi; margin&colon; 0&semi; padding&colon; 0&semi; clear&colon; both&semi;"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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