This appears to be trending topic and I have been listening to lots of news especially after the recent incidents. In fact this morning, I watched Fareed Zakaria's GPS with curiosity to get some new insight.
It is no news that USA is racially divided despite what is being assumed. It is not just America, most of the world has one problem or the other, divided for one reason or the other. It is the nature of the human beings. Here is just a simple, random list and you get the picture.
African Americans/ White Americans -USA
English Speakers/ French Speakers -Canada
Hindus / Muslims - India
Muslims / Christians - India
Hindus / Christians - India
Haves / Have-nots -World wide
Europe / England -Immigrants
Ireland / England
Anti gun / Gun
pro-life/pro-abortion
The arguments and comments made by Angela Rye ( CNN Political Commentator and NPR Political Analyst) today on Fareed's program really appealed to me as perhaps the best reason for this racial divide in the USA. It goes back to days of slavery. It goes back to the time when whole lot of people got uprooted and found themselves in a position from which they could not get up and walk away easily. It took a long, long time before one of their own kind become the most powerful person in USA.
Some countries, small in geographical extent, with a mostly monolithic racial content, like Japan or Korea may have lesser feelings of division on the basis of race, but they have other reasons to feel divided.
Similar situations have arisen in other countries. How do you walk away from a system imposed by the caste system over centuries? True, in the past 60 years or so, various measures have been taken to improve and bring up the backward people to move up (Education and Job opportunities). Still it is not sufficient.
What is the remedy?
The remedy is true and continuous integration (remove all forms of 'everyday racism) and not bask in a 'melting pot' rhetoric that politicians throw sometimes.
Is it possible to achieve true integration? Easier said then done. Each and every American man, woman and child should feel it in their heart to say no to covert racism that is more rampant and more hurting than anything else.
Looks like education is one area where integration can start. I also heard that there are places in the south which are still segregated.
Why?
After all this time?
It is no news that USA is racially divided despite what is being assumed. It is not just America, most of the world has one problem or the other, divided for one reason or the other. It is the nature of the human beings. Here is just a simple, random list and you get the picture.
African Americans/ White Americans -USA
English Speakers/ French Speakers -Canada
Hindus / Muslims - India
Muslims / Christians - India
Hindus / Christians - India
Haves / Have-nots -World wide
Europe / England -Immigrants
Ireland / England
Anti gun / Gun
pro-life/pro-abortion
The arguments and comments made by Angela Rye ( CNN Political Commentator and NPR Political Analyst) today on Fareed's program really appealed to me as perhaps the best reason for this racial divide in the USA. It goes back to days of slavery. It goes back to the time when whole lot of people got uprooted and found themselves in a position from which they could not get up and walk away easily. It took a long, long time before one of their own kind become the most powerful person in USA.
Some countries, small in geographical extent, with a mostly monolithic racial content, like Japan or Korea may have lesser feelings of division on the basis of race, but they have other reasons to feel divided.
Similar situations have arisen in other countries. How do you walk away from a system imposed by the caste system over centuries? True, in the past 60 years or so, various measures have been taken to improve and bring up the backward people to move up (Education and Job opportunities). Still it is not sufficient.
What is the remedy?
The remedy is true and continuous integration (remove all forms of 'everyday racism) and not bask in a 'melting pot' rhetoric that politicians throw sometimes.
Is it possible to achieve true integration? Easier said then done. Each and every American man, woman and child should feel it in their heart to say no to covert racism that is more rampant and more hurting than anything else.
Looks like education is one area where integration can start. I also heard that there are places in the south which are still segregated.
Why?
After all this time?
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