A 5 page paper that begins by defining ethnic animosity and relating it to racism. Researchers who address the issue of hate crimes, including crimes against whites are discussed. The increase in hate crimes, a violent expression of ethnic animosity, against Muslims and Middle Easterners following the September 11 attacks is reported. The writer then presents a proposal for a case study to investigate expressions of ethnic animosity on a college campus. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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likely include a reference to whites being hostile towards any of a large number of so-called ethnic minorities. The first response is more accurate. In truth, some authors have compiled
lists of statements from minority politicians and other well-known persons that were extreme expressions of ethnic animosity, that are more than hateful against whites (Jackson, 2001). These authors point out
that in todays America, there are never repercussions against these people but the story would be dramatically different if a white personality made similar comments about another ethnic or racial
group (Jackson, 2001). Ethnic animosity is related to racism, which is defined as: "the belief that ones own ethnic stock is superior to others" (Jackson, 2001). At its extreme,
ethnic animosity results in genocide. Ethnic animosity can and does lead to what is referred to as hate crimes. Again, hate crimes are typically reported as a crime with a
white perpetrator against a victim of another ethnicity or race (Lacey, 2003). Lacey points out that of the 1.7 million acts of interracial violent crime committed in 2001, 1.1 million
were committed by blacks against whites (Lacey, 2003). Even with these data, the FBI says that blacks suffer three times as many hate crimes as do whites (Lacey, 2003). When
America was attacked by fanatic Muslims on September 11, 2001, one fear was an increase in hate crimes due to animosity towards Muslims or perhaps all persons from the Middle
East (Swahn et al, 2003). There were reports on mass media broadcasts and in print a distrust of those persons believed to be form the Middle East had emerged across
the nation. Crimes against these persons were highly publicized (Swahn et al, 2003). Swahn and a large group of colleagues searched all newspaper reports of violent acts against this ethnic