Cultural Division In The United States

Since around the creation of the Republican party and the Democratic Party, politicians and other Americans have divided our states into red and blue states. During the Presidential Election, you could tell who had the most electoral votes due to the color of the state and how many due to the numbers at the top of the state. President Obama, who became a vision of hope for those needing a change in the establishment, said this,”“The pundits like to slice and dice our country into … red states for Republicans, blue states for Democrats,” he said. “But I’ve got news for them … We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don’t like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the red states. We coach Little

“On January 27th, Trump signed an executive order temporarily banning travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States” (Wulfsohn). This ban did not just stop those from Islamic countries from coming to the United States for the first time in their life, it also revoked the visas from 60,000 people who had been US citizens. This is where most people see a major issue with the travel ban. While most will argue that the ban is in the interest of national security, the argument is that those 60,000 people that used to live in America, those who were born here, have families here, grew up here, are now not allowed back because they simply left the country.

In American society there are many different subsets, or groups of people around the United States. There is a specific group I have decided to choose to study is Skaters. I chose this group because I feel they are a very interesting group of people and I feel that this group of people would be a great group to research. I feel the group I've selected would give me the best information during this study.

In Spite of the devastating history of segregation in the United States. A lot has changed in the past fifty years since segregation ended. The United States shifted from arresting African Americans for using “white only” facilities to integrated schools all over the country. Influential individuals such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr helped pave the way for African Americans to live as equals to along with their white counterparts in the United States of America.

We live in a society that has prospered generously over the years. America has opened its doors for so many different people by establishing itself as a free country. Not only have we progressed in technology and economically but we have created our own identity by becoming a free nation in which every individual has the same rights and eligibility as the other. This is the core of our countries success; we are not a nation unified distinctly by a specific race, religion or culture but by the compulsive efforts of our nation’s laws to uphold freedom in every aspect of a civilian’s life. People are not only allowed but encouraged to practice the religion of their choice, eat the food they desire, speak the language they prefer. There is even freedom in the most minute of things such as being able to listen to the music of your choice, these are the laws that promote diversity and strengthen our nation today. Our nation’s identity and prosperity is built upon multiculturalism and ethnic tolerance. However, this was not always the case it has taken many long and brutal years become the stable and versatile country that we are today. Specifically dating back to when this land was first founded and thereafter we see our nation has struggled with conflicts against politics, discrimination, and public affairs up till this very day.

When it comes down to the science of the problem, whether it being peer-culture reality or urban legend, many ethnographers have looked at and studied high school life where acting white may be present. In his essay Fryer states, “But the only two quantitative studies that analyze data from nationally representative samples of high-school students dismiss it all together as cultural lore” (Fryer, 5424). Fryer, on the other hand, conducted his own research and confirmed “the existence of acting white among blacks as well as among Hispanics” (Fryer, 5424) is indeed present in the high school lives of the mentioned races. In his essay the author mentions an upper-class suburb called Shaker Heights, found in Cleveland, Ohio that economist, Ron Ferguson, conducted research to find evidence on the acting white phenomenon. What Fryer had found when conducting his research was favorably similar to was Ferguson had uncovered

America has been a proud nation and has always allowed immigrants from all over the world to come in. President Donald Trump has been working on trying to keep America safe, so he is trying to send away potential terrorist immigrants, such as Syrian Refugees, because he believes that this will stop all terrorist attacks on America. Trump signed three executive orders during the week of January 23, which threatened the rights of the immigrants and refugees that would want to go to America. There are 51 Muslim-majority countries and territories and Trump placed travel limits on seven of them (Murdock, 1). There has been a concern for stricter border laws. There are 205 million people affected by this and 1 billion people not affected by this

In Roland G. Fryer’s paper Acting White, he introduces the audience to the social phenomenon that shares a name with the paper. Acting white is defined as a minority student who achieves well in school, through reading, getting good grades and excelling in their class but get ridiculed and bullied by their peers for sharing characteristics with their Caucasian peers. The obvious presence of bullying and destructive academic performances in minority students, pushed Roland to research and observe this occurrence. Roland published his paper in an attempt to make light of the issue, as it isn’t widely recognized. Through identifying and analyzing occurrences,

This quote provides a further historical context for the novel through narration. It delves deeper into the dichotomy between the people of the North and of the South. Southerners, such as Sherburn, show contempt for people from the North, likening them to cowards. The events of the novel occur in a pre-civil war America. Taking that into consideration it consequently begs the question; did the division between the Northerners and Southerners occur well before the civil war? This passage serves to bring to light tensions between the North and South well before the civil war began. Furthermore, the passage provides the text a real world connection through the motif of division in America. Division in America is still persistent to this day,

When thinking about the United States, most assume that the country is perfect with every citizen believing in the same thing and following by the same rules. What they do not know is that there are many conflicts between the individual regions. Out of the eleven different American nations, I feel that I belong in The Left Coast.

Race is identical everywhere in this world as it can be defined from a social construct of a group of people who share a similar common language and nation. The first time I notice race was when I moved from my country Nigeria to another country (United States of America). In Nigeria, race is not seen as color or any minority rather race can be described as different tribes and languages. Nigeria have 521 languages with 371 tribes, but Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa are the major tribes. In the United States, I notice that race is about your culture, skin color and physical appearances that I felt as I have experienced some peoples reaction as someone leaving their seat at the moment I came around or moving to the extreme end because of my presence.

What compels language, beliefs, values, norms, behavior's even material objects that are passed form one generation to the next in one word? That is culture. Culture effects many things like socialization, group membership, social inequality, and it can help in many public things. Culture is a embodiment of a group of people that have similar customs and a way of living.

In 2014, 35 million Americans identified as Hispanic, of whom 64 percent said they had Mexican heritage - almost 11 percent of the total population. As birthrates for Hispanics exceed those of Anglos, demographers estimate that by 2042 non-Hispanic whites will be a numerical minority in the United States. At the beginning of this century, there were twenty-one states where Hispanics were the largest ethnic minority.

A current cultural conflict taking place in America today is religious. Many Americans discriminate against the Islamic faith and there have been countless acts of mistreatment of Muslims in the work place, at school, in public, and in the media. Negative feelings and acts toward Muslims have become so prevalent that in 1991 the Runnymede Trust Report coined a term for it. The report defined the “unfounded hostility toward Muslims, and therefore fear or dislike of all or most Muslims” as “Islamophobia” (Defining “Islamophobia”). There has always been some religious cultural conflict with Muslims in the United States, but since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, conflict has escalated significantly.

According to data obtained by CNN, since the Refugee Act of 1980, which vets refugees thoroughly prior to allowing them sanctuary in the United States, there have been no terrorist attacks conducted by any refugees, from any country. In fact, prior to the Refugee Act of 1980 there were only three attacks and they were conducted by Cuban refugees. On January 27, 2017, exactly one week after Donald Trump was sworn into office as President, he issued an executive order halting the entry of refugees from seven Muslim majority countries: Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Libya and most controversially Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. Essentially this order came to be known as the travel ban. Trump implemented this ban on the basis of national security, claiming the need to protect American citizens. The travel ban has been controversial due to its targeting of primarily Muslim refugees, while still allowing for the influx of refugees of minority religions from the region such as Christians. This essay will explore and compare both the positive and negative aspects of the travel ban by analyzing its components and the possible effects it could have on the United States.