prejudice, discrimination and racism

Well emperor, what i see is that the racist card has a lot to do with it, because of US immigration history, the preference for Western Europeans over southern and the time it took for black people to become "Free."

Whether legal or illegal, race has to do with it. you might want to consider that there are 3 groups terribly discriminated in this country from which none of them came here voluntarily. African Americans, were brought as slaves and they had no option. Mexicans were introduced by force during the Spanish Mexican war, and were supposed to be respected by the Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty, but that 1/3 of land was Mexican. and finally, the ones who were here, were reduced to small reservations, in which land was not much fertile, and every time there was something of value, they were forced to move.

with that antecedent you can say for sure that race had to do with it. a

actually there was a whole movement calle the Eugenics movement previous to the birth of the KKK, which supported scientifically that some people according to their race was inferior. and guess who were the races that were in inferior, off course a white with Down syndrome would had been 10 times smarter that a black.

more over, immigration form certain parts of the world has to do with conditions established by the U.S. for example, Mexicans and the bracero program, that was the reason of the American dream in Mexico... what about Cuba. Haiti after independence was intervened by the U.S and the first thing they did was to remove their golden bars and take them to N.Y. 

what a coincidence that all that happened in the southern hemisphere inhabiter by "inferior, black, mindless" people, while Europe actually received a Marshall plan. and Europe had already exploited the same region for couple of 100 years.

then you see that it really has to do with race. yesterday i came across a kkk site in which they want you to denounce illegal immigrants. and declare the supremacy of the white Christian men.

well as i finish my research on immigration i will be telling you more, however if you have anything to prove you point it would be more than welcome.  it would help my paper.

thanks to all.

Darwins theory of survival of the fittest was changed and adapted to justify the colonization of Africa and parts of Asia. These people were militaraly and thus politically inferior compared to most European countries. They were easy to take over because they were weak, while making war with European countries could be more costly and risky.

Oh and yes, your KKK does not prove much, they are a radical group of southern Supremisists. There are plenty of black, hispanic, Middle Eastern, and Asian radical groups that state that other races are inferior to their own as well..

Yes, you are correct in that it is a thinking vice.  Correct me if I am wrong, but I will try to explain what I have learned postmodernism to be.  Basically, to the postmodernist, there are no cold hard facts.  We are all blobs of expressionless, featureless, genderless material moving around in an open plain.  Everything that we see and feel is created by language...if one can harness the power of language, one can control and create realities.  To the postmodernist, Primary source texts have no real value and the author rarely states what really happened -- how do we know the ancient and medieval worlds really existed?  We must offer a critique of these texts, "deconstruct" them, and read into them what we want.  Postmodernism denies an individual his race, gender, and beliefs.  It can lead to terrible cases of historical revisionism, such as denying that the Holocaust ever occured or downplaying its moral degeneracy.  Nazi thinkers were masters of using postmodernism to assert their racist propaganda.

Hopefully I have made myself clear in why I think postmodernism and historical revisionism is dangerous. 

Hi to all again, thanks for all you said i did not really read all carefully because i have to take a test today before 11 pm and i have not finishing studying, but i promise i will take a took at it and try to give you guys my opinion on that one. however, i saw many new ideas to me, you all seem to be very professional and educated, which makes me fell a bit ignorant while finishing my INR Major at FIU. well guys. hope i learn a lot from you and that  can get back to you before Monday.

take care.