Race, Religion, Or Ethnical Background?

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How likely are you to be racist? Have you ever found yourself making jokes about race, religion, or ethnical background? How would you feel about seeing a Asian American behind the wheel of a car or a Muslim American walk on a plane and be seated in your row on the tenth anniversary of 9/11? Everyday someone somewhere commits racial profiling in a way that might be harmful to others. Some of these individuals take it a step farther to prevent racial profiling from occurring as regularly, as in the case of Shoshana Hebshi. Racial profiling has been deemed unconstitutional yet it still occurs. I believe that racial profiling could be useful for society if used to educate people on their own racial misconceptions of other cultures and it could allow them to see some of the racial misconceptions that others hold about them. Through the use of interest groups and iron triangles formation I hope to illustrate that racial profiling could be a useful tool to check people 's racial tendencies and allow them to be more aware of them.
Racial profiling is defined as "discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime, based on the individual 's race, ethnicity, religion or national origin", according to the web article published by ACLU. I believe that this could be argued either way that it was or wasn 't racial profiling but for the sake of the assignment I will say it was racial profiling. Beginning with the facts provided to me
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