White Culture Racism

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Despite being a melting pot of different cultures, with hundreds of years of living together, racism still exists today. There are many people of different races. Black, white, chinese, japanese, italian, french, german, ect... Simply too many to even count on one hand. But always we as human beings are judgemental. We all want to believe that just because someone is different, be it religion or skin color, they are inferior.

One such culture that is targeted in today's society is black culture. I think the reason they are targeted so much is, not only for their skin color, but also how the act in their culture. In white culture, you're to act a certain way. Talk a certain way. Almost to show class above the others around you. It's almost

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