ETH125 Capstone CheckPoint

1.     Capstone CheckPoint

·         Write a 200- to 300-word summary that answers all of the following questions:

o    What information about race and ethnicity in the United States has helped you better understand or relate to specific minority groups?

o    Have you learned something new about your own cultural history?

o    Trends in immigration will continue to shape the face of the United States. What will this face look like in the year 2050?

o    How might the country best prepare for the changing race and ethnicity of its current and future citizens?

            I am generally a very tolerant individual, but the one thing I did learn what the plight of the Japanese Americans.  I did not know about the camps and the teaching while in the camps.  This has given me a greater respect for the Japanese race.  To be able to take something bad and turn it into something good and many have succeeded because of that. 

            This course did not cover any nationality that I come from and I do not believe any nationality I am descended from suffered any persecution or oppression.  I did learn a lot about the cultural history of several races of individuals and gained a greater respect for several. 

            I believe trends in immigration will only increase as time goes by.  As Americans shed their prejudices and learn to live with each other and their cultural differences, the rest of the world will continue to see America as a safe haven and land of opportunity.  We will all continue to intermingle and intermarry and the races will become less pronounced in fifty years that it is now.

            I believe this country would be better served and better prepared if we address the underlying racial issues and work on changing people’s opinions on any one race.  We need to stop looking at little things and taking offense and crying ‘racial’ for every affront just because you happen to be part of a minority.   Not every injustice done is racially motivated.  If you want to create organizations to help minorities, helping them recognize true racially motivated issues should be one thing these organizations teach.