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    White Nationalism Is Un-American White nationalism is an umbrella term to describe the ideology that calls for the creation of an all white “ethnostate” in America. Mainly, this is to be achieved by the deportation and genocides of non-whites. White nationalists claim that the “white-genocide,” or the cultural dilution of Americans of European descent, is occurring to the detriment of this country, by allowing immigration from other parts of the world the United States is only weakening it’s economy

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    “What do you think of the class’s discussions on culture?” “Well, it’s a bit of a foreign idea to me, really. The town I’m from, my school was 99% white. Literally, we had two black girls and a half-Peruvian guy in my class of 140. So the emphasis on diversity is interesting to me, more than anything. Because I can’t relate to it. I’ve never seen it in action, as it were. “A friend of mine expressed that he wouldn’t marry anybody but another Korean. And of course there’s been talk in class about

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    The American Dream is so many different things to so many different people. While other countries around the World would like to argue that Americans’ only aspiration is to become infinitely wealthy, Dinesh D’Souza claims that it is not wealth that Americans want. He believes that it is simply a better life. Michael Moore too acknowledges Americans’ ambition, especially his own, to create a better life for themselves. These two views of the American Dream come from very opposite Americans, but it

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    gullible because of their deficiency in being a “normal white American.” Their naivety is not positively conveyed. Rather it functions to make the US characters somewhat miserable who are located at the bottom of the white supremacy system, that is, they are barely better than the Other. Their deficiency in being a normal white American is entailed in their failure in full performance of masculinity (or femininity). In their portrayals, the American characters’ masculinity or femininity are not fully

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    people and the rich is white people. However, when looking at the film a little deeper, it exposes a bias idea that strengthens the notion that whites are better than blacks. First, it is made to seem as if the film deconstructs the stereotype of the two races. Mike as the representation of blacks and is made to show that he can ignore the “good for nothing” ghetto traits of youth by receiving education and becoming an athlete. Leigh Ann is depicted as an upper class white woman who adopts a black

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    Recently, the media has caused many stereotypes due to portraying African American males playing feminine roles. This perspective depicts men of color wearing attire outside of the stereotypical sagging pants and oversized t-shirts. It depicts an educated man with social class and sophistication. To date, society holds African American men to rigid stereotypes and a high standard of masculinity. However, once a man of color steps outside societal stereotypes and into the perspective reflected

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    the animals they have survived on for thousands of years. Many things changed their living style, most of these being white culture and power. In the second picture, Forest Grove Indian School in 1891, shows young Native American children in an industrial training boarding school. This school teaches the children many white ways like industry and their religion. The main goal of white people was not to kill off all Indians, just to take their land and civilize them. Some events leading to this change

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    AP US History DBQ: Native Americans-White Relations, 1800-1850 In the time period of 1800-1850 white Americans expanded across the vast lands on the western side of the continent and regularly encountered conflict with various Indian nations. In these documents, interactions for the various Indian nations were subjected to different cultivation between each tribe per say that there were responses that filled different needs and demands. Some tribes provided benefits such as agriculture and household

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    Ansel Adams was an established American landscape photographer, known best for his black-and-white photos of the American West, when he was asked by his personal friend Ralph Merritt to “document” the Manzanar War Relocation Center, who was the director of the camp (slate.com) This career move from landscape to capturing personal, human moments was a risk, but it was a risk that paid off. Adams was able to publish his photo series, unlike other famed Manzanar photographer Dorthea Lange, in a book

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    Many of the people in Ferguson felt that this young man was fatally shot based off the color of his skin, and that this would not have happened if he was white. In fact, there is a large amount of African American individuals who believe that officers are “morally bankrupt” (Mcwhorter, 2014). This position is taken by countless communities across America (Mcwhorter 2014). This plays a huge role in how the environment affected this

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