Research Paper on:
United States and Ethnic Conflict

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has been a fact of life in the United States since the arrival of the first Europeans to the American shoreline. Ethnic and racial diversity has become the expectation,  not the exception in our modern society. We are clustered together in our factories and schools, transported there by the modern communication either in reality or in virtual reality  through the wonders of the Internet. People from what was once minority cultures in more developed regions of the world are, in fact, now transported in mass to those  same regions via jet liners and ocean going vessels. They intermix with the indigenous peoples of this country as well as the whites and blacks who have predominated it.  The result is a constant abrasion between whites and non-whites, a constant abrasion between that anthropological classification of Anglo-American and African Americans, Asian-Americans, Latino Americans, and Native Americans, in  particular. Indeed, many writers consider white America the oppressor of these various ethnicities. Cornel West, for example, sees this oppression as it applies to African Americans as occurring  through daily attacks on black attributes such as intelligence, beauty, ability, and character. Central to this racial bias is economics and the capitalist system which emphasizes individuality over community  and competition over cooperation. Areas that were once resided in by primarily whites are now occupied in high population densities by practically every  ethnicity and race known. Not only are the ethnicities and races attracted to certain areas because of jobs or other benefits, they are often just enticed into mass migrations  by the perception that the "grass is greener on the other side of the fence". The result is all too often a conglomerate of people composed of different cultures