Abstract
This paper looks at the tendency in the U.S. educational system to force non-mainstream cultures to conform to the established mainstream culture and how this is the primary means by which education contributes to the development and preservation of bigotry and prejudice. The paper also looks at how, if done properly, education can instead be used to help overcome racist, bigoted, and hate-inducing ideas in society and, actually, honor multiculturalism and diversity.

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"The education system in the United States has a long history of ethnic segregation, both formal (adjudicated by law) and informal. It has been argued that segregated programs are based on the idea of de-culturizing the student, rather than incorporating the culture in question into the learning experience. This is done through a program designed to eliminate the native language and culture. For instance, there have been times when the education system has eliminated or simply ignored the laws concerning attendance, especially in the case of Mexican American farm workers' children who were needed to work in agriculture during planting and harvest seasons (Spring, 2003)."

Tags:discrimination, first, colonists, america, conquering, oppression, european, natives

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"Anne Moody, in her autobiography Coming of Age in Mississippi, argues that, despite the overwhelming bigotry of the South, the individual black American can find strength and courage within herself and with others to fight against and overcome that bigotry. Southern bigotry is described in the book in many ways, but Essie May is able to resist the despair and resignation, which could have easily been her lot, and to rise above her situation to become a proud and hopeful member of the civil rights movement. The message is clearly that if oppressed people can organize and plan such resistance to bigotry, then that bigotry can indeed be overcome.

What give this theme its unique power is the attitude of Moody to her life and the material in her book. ... "

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"PETER STUYVESANT: A BIOGRAPHY

Peter Stuyvesant was born in the Friesland, Netherlands in 1610.. Stuyvesant died at age 62 on his farm in what is today the Bowery section of New York City. By the time Stuyvesant was 25 years old, he was living in Brazil as an employee of the Dutch West India Company.. For the greater part of the remainder of his life, Stuyvesant lived outside of the Netherlands; however, he remained a citizen of the country, and his work almost always was tied in some way to the Netherlands.
Stuyvesant was appointed Governor of Cura?ao and other Dutch possessions in the Dutch West Indies in 1643.. In this capacity Stuyvesant participated in Dutch campaigns against the Portuguese, during one of which he lost his right leg. In 1646, Stuyvesant was commissioned as Director-General of New Netherlands, a ..."

Abstract
On January 3, 1996, the Senate and Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), effectively making it a federal crime for states to perform same-sex marriages, and it allowed states to ignore and nullify a same-sex marriage done in another state. This paper discusses the unconstitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, and how it violates the constitutional rights of individuals, religious groups and states.

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"Proponents of the Defense of Marriage Act state that homosexuals can get the same rights as married heterosexual couples by entering a domestic partnership agreement. However, this process is more difficult than getting married, putting same-sex couples through unnecessary trouble and expense. A domestic partnership also puts forward the message that a homosexual relationship is inferior and second-class to a heterosexual relationship and that gays and lesbians are inferior, second-class citizens. The constitution calls for equality-where no citizen is considered second-class-yet DOMA reeks of discrimination against gays".

Tags:homosexual, gay, gender, discrimination

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"According to author Maryse Conde, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem was written "to express (her] feelings about present-day America" (Conde 203). Conde believes that little has changed in America since the days of the Puritans: many Americans are still hypocritical, narrow-minded racists (Conde 203). The main point that Conde makes in her fictional account of the life Tituba, who was actually accused of practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 (Conde 183), is that America was (and is) a racist country. Conde uses her fictional account of Tituba's life to show that the United States was ruled by whites who made life miserable for the slaves. And Conde wants her readers to compare Tituba's life to that of black Americans today; in fact, Conde maintains that "for the majority of the (American) blacks, life is still hell" (Conde 203)."

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"This study will examine anti-Asianism in the United States. Every source consulted for this analysis emphasizes the fact that Asian-Americans have suffered from anti-Asian prejudice of various sorts, from the subtle to the brutal. Why, then, is there so relatively little consciousness about this anti-Asianism in the United States?


Takaki writes that a major reason for this ignorance on the part of many observers is the glut of media coverage of the successes of Asian-Americans, which would seem to suggest that they could not be the victims of racism. As we read in Takaki's Strangers From A Different Shore:


Today Asian Americans are celebrated as America's "model minority." . . . The celebration of Asian-American achievements in the press has been echoed in the political realm ."

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"This research examines the depiction of ethnic groups, stereotypes, and racial bigotry in the film West Side Story, with a view toward identifying the degree to which it was an accurate mirror of 1950s America. The research will set forth the context in which the film appeared and then discuss its depiction of racial types, comparing that depiction with the actual conditions of racial bias, bigotry, stereotyping, discrimination, and tensions between ethnic groups extant in the U.S. in 1961, the year of the film's release.

When West Side Story opened in motion picture theatres in the autumn of 1961, the New York Times critic Bosley Crowther hailed it as a cinema masterpiece that used "the freer and less restricted medium of the mobile photograph" on the big screen to give "range and natural aspect" to the story's juvenile-gang-war theme..."

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"Introduction
The Israeli settlement movement is comprised of individuals who are racist and unwilling or able to compromise. The settlement movement began with Zionism and has progressed to become a movement filled with racial and religious overtones which claims it has superior historical and religious claims over the whole of ancient Canaan. The movement has become powerful by allying itself with the nationalist movement, and many rabbis. The movement takes advantage of the official Orthodox position of passivity and claims to be the instrument through which God will be able to bring about the coming of the Messiah.

Many of the fundamentalist groups are not afraid to use violent means to achieve their ends. Indeed, it was Israel who introduced terrorism into the Middle East during her struggle for.."

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"The literature reveals that there are several elements in the lives of African-Americans that dramatically suffer due to constant exposure to "micro-assaults," or their engagement in the defense of themselves to counter innumerable subtle racist attacks perpetrated by the members of the majority group, or "Whites". Of note is that African-Americans are subjected to a variety of forms of discrimination, the majority of which are subtle, while others are overt; that is, African-Americans, due to their race, ethnicity, and culture, are subjected to widespread societally perpetrated discrimination, most of which is racially based. The alienation of African-Americans, though alive and well, is far from novel. With the inception of slavery in the United States, ... "

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"The subject of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible is the Salem witchcraft trials, and Miller uses the historical trials as a way of commenting on the nature of official oppression and bigotry as directed at a specific group in society. Miller's play was produced during the McCarthy era and was intended to comment directly on the "witch-hunts" of our own time as McCarthy and his cohorts ferreted out Communists everywhere as a way of promoting their own careers rather than the truth. The witchcraft in the play is built on historical evidence from the period as to the rationale offered by the Puritans for the witch hunt, historical analysis which has offered its own assessment of why the witch hunts developed and what purposes they served, and links with contemporary witch hunts to show how these processes and patterns of thought persist and continue to cause injustice.."