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Hope And Reality

Hope and Reality
Racism is a powerful word in our society. Regardless of place, nationality, religion, beliefs and race, everyone uses racism in both good and bad ways, good and bad defined as the American society in general defines it. But the truth is that no one has an answer for racism. Black, yellow, white, brown, red: are these words racist? No, not at their root, since they simply describe a color, but people have learned to use them as part of the racist dilemma. After seeing the movie American History X, my views toward immigrant people and people that are part of minority groups have changed. This movie describes the history of the United States as an image through the life of one man. Because its images are powerful and even choking, it makes the meaning of the word "racism" become clear to me. This movie talks about a group of white extremist in the United States, called "skin heads", that is against non-white people who live in "their city, their streets", and live equal lives. Racism should be stop in order to create more peaceful unified society. No matter nationalities, it will be hard and difficult for people to not be racist toward other because of the past history of racism, and because people refused to evolve to become a more accepting and understanding society.
History is the main reason why people are racist today. We have to go back at the time where Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas and when the Europeans conquered what was known as the "New World" at that time. They almost exterminated the Native Americas other civilizations. After that, they went to Africa and forced the black colored people to go to America to be turned into slave and Europeans are responsible for millions of deaths.
In the 1920s at the time of the French Revolution, the creation of the myth of an "international Jewish conspiracy" was invented. That myth, over the years, evolved and expanded in Europe and was even more popularized in America. At this time,...