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Human beings do not get to choose where we are born, the families we are born into, or what our skin color is. They are just the cards we all have been dealt, without a say in the matter. Throughout human history, beginning when people lived in nomadic tribes as hunter gathers to now were we live in more independent communities. Humans have always been skeptical of outsiders. An outsider can mean many different things depending on who you ask. In this paper, I will use outsider as someone who is different from one’s self. In the history of our nation we have seen the effects many different times and still do. In the past the majority has tried and succeed in dominating the minority starting with Native Americans, then African-Americans, then …show more content…

As a person who belongs to two minority groups I am aware that based on what you see when looking at me, some people can’t help but make assumptions. Being a person of Indian descent, the kind Christopher Columbus was actually looking for, some people assume I must work at a gas station or a hotel, some may also think I am a terrorist. Others may think I know how to charm snakes, unfortunately I don’t. While others may think of Asian Americans as the model minority. The other minority group I fall into is being a veteran of the armed forces, which also has some stereotypes associated with it. Some people may think we are to dumb to hold a real job and that is why we joined. Other may think we are all baby killers. While others think it is very noble to serve one’s country. As a nation I think we have made tremendous leaps forward. If you look back to when President Lincoln made the Emancipation Proclamation to now, a lot has changed and most of society is accepting of people who are not part of the majority demographic. I think in the next fifty years the United States will not have a single majority

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