For many years discrimination has been a big issue throughout the world. Particularly, in the history of America where people of ethnic backgrounds faced many racial slurs from people who didn’t understand their culture. Some people tend to think of the stereotypes of different cultures and use it against all people of that ethnicity. They label them as all the same when they really do not know that not one person is identical to another, regardless of their race. The pride of a person seems to cause more trouble when the person is oblivious to the fact that in actuality, we are all the same.
When someone doesn’t understand one’s culture, they tend to think negatively on it. A reason can be ethnocentric beliefs that one culture is better than the rest. For example, in the movie Crash, it portrayed a white American to think that their race is superior to others, typically the minorities. Also, people have a tendency to feed into stereotypes. Not only would that make you......
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