Thursday, July 26, 2007

Race V. Ethnicity

Race and Ethnicity were two in the same to me in these chapters. When I think of race I think of racism but I don’t think in this chapter they differentiated between race and ethnicity. I think if you were anything other than American you were discriminated against.

2 comments:

Melissa said...

What about how the plantation owners tried to pit Koreans vs. Japanese (ethnicity) in order to keep all Asian (race) workers in a lower position?

Kelley Kilbane said...

Good Point! When I read this I thought that no matter what anyone other than american was discriminated against. I do now see how ethnicity was brought into the mix but I still think in the plantation owners eyes that they were just 2 different groups of people who they could manipulate.