" 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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