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Ethnic Cleansing In The United States

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Ethnicity is defined as an ethnic group; a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, or language. There can be many different ethnic groups in each country. In China alone there are 56 recognized ethnic groups. In the United States there are six recognized ethnic groups. They are White American, Black or African American, Alaska Native or Native American, Native Hawaiian, Asian American, or people of two or more races. The US census also groups Americans into the category of “Hispanic or Latino” or “Not Hispanic or Latino”. Ethnicities are located in different places depending on many factors, such as geography. For example, there is a high population of Hispanics from Mexico in the southwestern part of the country. …show more content…

Ethnic cleansing is defined as the systematic removal of ethnic or religious groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group, with the intent of making it ethnically homogenous. This basically means, one ethnic groups removes another group to make a certain place’s population just their ethnic group. Ethnic cleansing can be carried out in many ways, such as forced migration, intimidation, and mass murder. One of the most cruel and widespread examples of this was the Holocaust. It was portrayed in the book “The Diary of Anne Frank”. In 1933, a man named Adolf Hitler was elected as chancellor of Germany. Germany was angry and embarrassed from WW1, and they wanted someone to blame. Hitler gave them someone, the jews. He blamed them for Germany’s defeat. The Franks’ are the main focus of the book “The Diary of Anne Frank”. After Hitler was elected the Franks’ started to notice the anger and hatred around them, so they fled to Amsterdam. In 1940, Germany invaded The Netherlands and they began to place restrictions on the jews. Anne Frank and her sister had to switch to an all jewish school, they had to wear stars on their clothes, and they weren’t allowed in certain places. In 1942 Anne’s sister received a call up notice to be relocated to a work camp. Her father then decide it was time to tell them about their hiding place. They left their house a mess and left a note about leaving for Switzerland to throw the authorities off. They moved into the attic of Otto Frank’s office building. They were joined by a few others shorty after. During her time there, Anne kept a very detailed diary about her daily life and her thoughts. They lived there for two years until August 4, 1944 the German police stormed the building and found them from an anonymous tip. The family was then sent to a concentration camp called Auschwitz. The men and women were separated and those who were too young or

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