Racism And Segregation In The United States

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Throughout our past history people had made fun of one another for being different. In our personal experience racism was not a big issue where we grew up, but we were racially mixed in our country. We were separated by religion even though we lived together and we study together. Segregation was useless among our country people and no one knows value of the segregation. Throughout our conventional educational system students are separated by gender. Which means that male students are required to sit one side of the classroom by school administration at the same time female students are required to sit other, but entire class study together. This is not a big problem rather than racism even though many people raise their hand against it.

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