I choose this issue, because I want to talk about the ethnicism in The United States. In this country there are a big mix of differents nationalities and religions.
The most recent data obtained from the 1990 census, according to which:
58 million inhabitants are of English descent
38.7 million people are of Irish descent
32.7 million inhabitants are of German descent
That's because when America was discovered, a lot of people of the north of Europe moved to USA. But before this, there were a lot of indians in these lands. The people that moved from Europe, they stayed in the best zones of The United States, away from the indians. Then, people from other countries started to move here too, differents ethnic groups such as, asians and from the Pacific island, africans and other races.
After that, white people rejected black people (around 1940). So, they began to get in troubles. White people didn't want to be in contact with black people, so they established differences between both in schools, neighborhoods, bars, bus... etc. That was terrible, but white people in that era thought that black people was a bad influence. Also, there was another different, and it was that white people were of medium class or high and black people were just poor.
Thanks God this changed during the years. After 1960, the life changed for the better to the black people. The children, blacks and whites went to the same school, Carl Stokes was the first black person to be elected mayor, the blacks could be actors in the movies...
Nowadays, the thinking has changed. We don't have differences between people that have other colours, that's pathetic. We are humans, we are the same, and we have to respect each other. That's what I think.
Anyway, today, there are white people that reject black people still. And doesn't matter the country, even in Spain. That's really a shame, because they don't understand that there's not a difference between us, and bad people can be black, white, yellow people...
I love meeting people from other nationalities, I respect them, and I'm never going to thought otherwise.
