Ethnic Groups and Discrimination

Paper Summary:

The paper relates that the English and the Scots formed the first great waves of immigration into the United States and discusses how the Scots faced segregation and ethnic discrimination as an ethnic group, until they managed to become politically influential and financially successful. The paper then reveals that the Scots eventually established their supremacy over the other racial or ethnic minorities that has allowed many forms of intolerance and overt discrimination to exist at the root of the social system. The writer posits that each individual should feel part of the large multicultural group rather than be isolated according to racial or ethnic criteria.

From the Paper:

"The United States was originally formed of immigrants that came to the new-found continent and settled along the coast. Immigration is still an overwhelming force today in America, which has become the land with the most widespread multiculturalism.
"My own ancestors came from Scotland around the 1770's. Initially, upon their first arrival on the continent many of the Scots were subject to both prejudice and discrimination by the groups of British that had taken control in some parts of the land. Coming from a poor country, the Scots faced exclusion from trading between colonies."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Brock, William R (1982). Scotus Americanus: A Survey of the Sources for Links between Scotland and America in the Eighteenth Century. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
• Landsman, Ned C. Nation and Province in the First British Empire: Scotland and the Americas. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2001.

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