Race In Society

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In the 21 century the world is share between two gropes of people. One group of people wants to live in peace with the whole world and are convinced that all people should be treated equally regardless of skin type, nationality and religion. Whereas another group which, is called resists is fully confident that the type of race influences the character, thinking and mental abilities of a person. With this in mind people use any methods like humiliate, insult and abuse to show to the superiority of their race. Due to the concept of race can exist only in the people’s mind, people from this group show just the lack of their education, as it was proved that every person in the world shares 99.99% of their gens with all other people (O’Donnell,

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