Summary:
An overview of segregation in history and the various influences for it, focusing on segregation in the United States.
Segregation is the policy of groups of different race, religion, wealth, or culture to live apart and use separate facilities. Segregation started to become law in the United States of America, during the late 1800's. There were many reasons for segregation to effect America. One of the major causes of segregation is a long period of group conflict and from this conflict one of the two groups would have more influence and power than the other. In the U.S., the whites were the group that was more influential and powerful than the blacks, which meant they were dominant. The group conflict also resulted in unfriendly attitudes and feelings between groups, which is another major cause of segregation. During the time period where whites and blacks were in a conflict, whites would treat blacks very unkindly, and other whites very nicely resulting in hatred for one-another. There were many causes and effects of segregation in the U.S. and many other countries and many other minorities were effected other than blacks.
Blacks are mostly associated with segregation, but there were many other minorities that were affected by segregation. When the first settlers came to America they forced the American Indians into reservation, while the settlers took their land. Afterwards, American Indians also were discriminated political and economical. The United States has also discriminated immigrants who came or tried to come into America. The U.S.
stopped immigration from Asia during the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many Japanese Americans were discriminated, sent to detention camps, and lost their constitutional rights, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. One of the acts of segregation that is less known is against Jewish Americans. The Jewish Americans were excluded from living in certain areas, and also against getting educational opportunities, which restricts the amount of Jewish American in college or other institutions. All different races, religions and other differences of people have been segregated against.
There was segregation in many other countries at different times like the Middle Ages, the 1800's and the 1900's. European Jews were discriminated against in the Middle Ages. During this time period, Jews had to live in ghettos, they didn't have many rights and only Jews could get certain jobs not wanted by others. Religious segregation did not just happen in the Middles Ages, it also took place in India by Hindus who believed in the caste system, which was a class order system that was developed in early times for the religion. This caste system separate each class into its own place, in which only marriage could occur within that social class. Radical differences have been a start in much discrimination like in Japan. Koreans that lived in Japan were segregated against and the Japanese thought of themselves as superior to the Koreans. In South Africa, people had made a firm racial segregation that was called apartheid. This segregation was very strict and it lowered blacks at a race. Countries from all over the world have suffered from segregation against one another, but somehow the countries have stopped and tried to make everyone treated fairly.
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