Minority Rights Research Paper

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It’s hard for me to make a clear definition about the real situation of the minority rights in the United-States, being myself a foreigner and not an immigrant, and surely not an illegal one. But if taking the information what I already knew about the part of immigration coming to United-States illegally, it`s clear that those are unfortunately the representatives of the certain countries only, the undeveloped countries of the third world, so there are present most of the Africans countries, as they are numerous. There is also the illegal immigration from the « geographically close »

countries, so for them it’s just easier to cross the border.
Seldom, we will hear about the illegal immigration coming from Europe or other developed countries,
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Unfortunately, the American population is obliged to assume their presence too, and it’s out of the question to give them the same as for the American population rights.
But, I don’t think that the « minorities definition" concern just an illegal immigrant. I think mostly it’s about the minorities, which belong to the American population. And despite of it still suffer from the discrimination. In this case: there are a different race representatives and the sexual minorities. In the case of the race representatives, they are treated most of the time being "killers" and « rapists ». After reading both of the researchers
Crutchfield and all and Blumstein, we can define that the growing violence is linked to the poverty development. However, mostly the researchers have a difficulty to give a definition to the « poverty and the poor » into minority category.
The image representation of the poor people has a long history in the United States. Most of the early researchers gave more or less the same description to the character of poor people, linked to the extreme poverty lazy temperament, unacceptable and extreme behavior. In my opinion the poverty has its explanation not only on the temperamental characteristics of each individual, but in the social structure as

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