PEOPLE, POWER AND POLITICS

People , Power and Politics

Historically speaking , apart from the Native Americans , the entire population has immigrant origin . The normal view about immigrants had been that they wish to be accepted by the dominant Anglo-Saxon population over period of time . In the process of their cultural marriage each group contributed to the national culture in their own way . But the rigidity of the dominant culture continued to refuse and reject the unfamiliar cultural practices . This arrogant anti-migrant psychology was more evident in the work places . With the passage of time the anti

migrant attitude attained new heights and the victimization and exploitations of the migrants continued

This anti human approach resulted into the Civil Rights movement of 1960 's but this struggle failed to deliver goods to the society in general and gave rise to a strong feeling to strive for a separate identity , which has been rightly discussed by Stephen Steinberg in The Ethnic Myth to affirm their right to a separate identity within the frame work of a pluralist nation

In the race of this racial discrimination the American society largely divided into two categories - The Black and The White

Andrew Hacker in his book Two Nations while discussing the cultural behavior of these two groups argues that black and white live in two different worlds and he has tried to prove his feelings that America is a state of inequality , hostility and separatism . In the preface of the book Hacker has used a quote from Benjamin Disraeli Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy , who are as ignorant of each others habits , thoughts and feelings , as if they were dwellers in different zones , or inhabitant of different planet

Andrew Hacker finds that this racial discrimination is bitterer for African-Americans than the Asians , Hispania 's and people from Middle East as they are more acceptable to the whites . Hacker wants us to believe that only the Black Americans still remain separate from the rest of the world whereas the other ethnicities have disassociated themselves from their native culture and have merged with the White Society

Hacker has discussed the integration issue by giving the title of the chapter Being Black in America ' Here he has described that an African-American goes through and has to face this bitter social discrimination all due to color of their skin

Hacker finds the whites divided into two groups , conservatives and liberals . Liberals are really liberal to the African-Americans where as conservatives are less sympathetic to them

While discussing the income issue of African-Americans , Hacker finds Black Americans have figured disproportionately among the nation 's poor ' White families earn more than Black families

W .E .B .DuBois in his book Black Reconstruction in America ' has also illustrated the ethnic discrimination in the United States . Initially the opportunity for real democracy was broad and the political power was confined to the property holders . The labors that came to the United States were subject to extreme exploitation , which resulted into...