Seperation

             " Hey, what nationality are you?" a person may say. Does the nationality of a
             person say who or what type of person he/she may be? Does the difference in a group of
             peoples nationalities mean they have to sit apart? A person's nationality is just their
             cultural heritage, their background; it is not a means of categorizing people. In the essay
             "Race In America," George Henderson states that, "Ethnicity is the most distinguishing
             characteristic of Americans, where we are sorted primarily on the basis of our cultural
             identities or nationality." I believe this is true, but I don't agree with it. Differences in
             nationalities that cause us to separate in our multicultural society is evident our schools,
             our society, and in television. This is a bad thing because we weren't put here on earth to
             Most teenagers only hang around people from their own race. There is
             evidence of this in the school cafeteria. The cafeteria is split up in two parts. In one
             corner, black teenagers eat with their same-colored friends. In the other corner, Anglos sit
             with their friends. While Asians and Latinos sit separately at their own tables. Someone
             might say, "Well, that group sits apart from the other because they don't speak the same
             language as the other group". You mean to tell me that no Black, Anglo, Asian or Latino
             can speak English? If skin color doesn't matter then why doesn't everyone sit together at
             lunch? When everyone is growing up they imagine themselves getting married to
             In our society the people might believe that racial profiling and stereotyping
             ended years ago. It may not be simple to see, but they still exist in out society today.
             Racial profiling is almost an everyday thing for cops.Th
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