Optional Ethnicities For White Only Summary

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Ani Grigoryan
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Sociology

OPTIONAL ETHNICITIES: FOR WHITE ONLY?

According to the author, “Optional Ethnicities: For White Only?” author trying to tell us types of Ethnicities. The author with his amazing story went very dipper and didn't economize any details to show us how is it looks like. Ethnicity is the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition. We can see discriminations everywhere. It based on Race and Ethnicity. Ethnicity dividing into two groups Minority and Majority. It's in a population. Ethnicity is getting very big issue in today's life. This problem getting more and more in the United state. People doing discriminations for skin color, gender, religion, race what's very ridiculou. People have to understand that when kids born they not choosing their family and skin color. Some people thinks that they can judge other people, but that really false. Thanks Got, now people welcoming to black people, and blacks are in a good relationships with white’s.
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Blacks are prefer to have a relationship either with blacks, either with hispanic, and whites only prefers to have relationship with whites. In this Millennium generation people change to the good side now. Most of them didn't pay attention to the Akeem colors. Now you can see more usual black boys getting married to the white girl, and the white mens to the black girls. I think they found that secret golden key, what opened very big gates of life. In a everydays life you can meet on the street more black boys smoking marijuana than the white ones. What I thing it's related by black people’s very heavy life, what they had before. You also can see black guys during murmur getting Jane than the white. But they both are so purposeful. Whites are always wants to be a first in everywhere. Blacks do the same too. I'll bring an example from the passage, what I had

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