Essay On Ethnic Relation

There will always be a factor that prevents people of different ethnicities from integrating with each other. Whether it is the color of a person’s skin, their economic status, or their religion and culture. Ethnic relations are the relations between race and economics as well as the relations between different ethnicities. In the past, segregation was a part of everyday life. White people held the majority of the population and therefore felt that they were superior to those who were not white. Minorities fought against the separation and eventually the United States became integrated. The United States is now known to be a very diverse nation, but that is only because people do not really see what is going on. Yes, people of different cultures can live together and get along, but …show more content…
Ethnic hierarchy is the belief that some races are superior than others and therefore some races should be at the top while others should be at the bottom. In Crash, this ethnic relation is shown when the white cop stops a black movie director and his wife for no reason. After finding that the man has a clean record, he asks him to step out of the car, although he had not been drinking. The wife begins to get agitated and decides to step out of the car, the cop decides to search her and ends up groping her and touching her inappropriately right in front of her husband. The husband, afraid to get arrested or shot decides to apologize to the police officer and they are left of with a warning. This shows how a white cops takes advantage of his power just because he was dealing with minorities. Because he had authority and he knew that the victims, being people of color, were not going to do anything to stop him due to fear for their lives. The white cop vs black criminal story is one that is heard all over the country not only once in a while, but very frequently. White cops have been exposed to abusing their power in order to go against people of