The U.S is known for being an integrated country, and "because their government is just and as there is nothing to render them wretched, there is nothing to engender riots and tumults." (Rights of Man, Paine) This quote was made prior to the civil war, and so this defines England's perspective in particular of the United States. Have we ever met those standards that Thomas Paine held to us? I think not. Although we are integrated racism still exists. Would it have been better to be separated instead of segregated? Maybe we would've saved the feelings of a lot of people, but it would have been a lot harder to make the transition to integration if we were separated to start with. Racism can't be stopped in society, because it is taken into account with everything we do with others. Stereotypes advertised all throughout media, are taken seriously even by professionals. Chicago is a more racist city than we know. Beatings and violence over domestic disputes can be considered acts of racism when we look at it. One can see it as being at the wrong place at the wrong time but the majority will tend to look at the situation oh a gang of (so & so race) beat up a couple kids of (so & so race) in the North or the South side. As long as their are two different races there will be people who see it as a racial dispute and wrongful act of violence.
Integration is a decision for most people. I believe that the people who fear integration should move to their homeland and be ignorant there. If they have the nerve to go to America and complain about integration its just sad because America isn't 'theirs'. That is why racism is so frowned upon. America has always been seen as the well diverse country that doesn't care about color or religion. Yet there are still people here that enforce that there should be separation. Which just outright disgusts me.
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