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Hasandjekaj, Matos

Wilson Clasby

English Comp II: 180

8 April 2017

As a society we tend to agree that racism, and superiority complex is a thing of the past but when

we take a closer look we see that it is still very prevalent in our world today. This has happened

in history before through the Holocaust. In todays society, we notice that people have not

learned lessons from mistakes made in the past. This is a problem that is still a prevalent issue at

hand with the discrimination that the American government has toward the muslim religion.

Before it was the German government authorities, Hitler and the Nazis, that discriminated

against the people of the Jewish religion. They did not view the jews as a part of a religion, they

categorized them as if Judaism was a race. Presently, we see the same thing with the American

government authoritative figure, Donald Trump, discriminating against people of the Muslim

religion. Subsequently, this religion is also on the same path to being viewed as a race because of

the great deal of racial profiling that is on going in the American culture.

Annotated Bibliography

A Forgotten Suitcase: The Mantello Rescue Mission. United States Holocaust Memorial

Museum. Collections Highlights.

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https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007679 Accessed on 6

April 2017

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a special section of the museum that
explain the Nazi racism towards Jews along with any other minority race during the time
of the Holocaust. From The museums online snippet of the actual exhibit, I was able to
learn that Adolf Hitler was always intrigued with the idea of race. He was so inspired that
he came up with his own belief called racial purity. In his eyes, this was the superiority
he saw in the Germanic race, or the Aryan master race. The logistical reasoning
behind his madness was that he wanted to keep the race pure so one day in the future it
can become so powerful that it will take over the world. Once Hitler and the Nazis came
into power, this belief became what the government represented. Once everyone was on
the same page with Hitler's beliefs, the Nazis put their knowledge into actions. They felt
that they needed to limit the reproduction of the inferior race, or anything other than the
Aryan race, in order for them to achieve their goal of the master race taking over. The
museum makes it known that the first step the Nazis took was being able to perform
sterilizations. They performed this procedure on people to ensure that they will not be
able to have children. The museum accentuated the fact that the Nazis were smart for
only doing this procedure for people who categorize themselves as one of the minority
races, like Gypsies and Jews. They also performed these sterilizations on the
handicapped, deaf, blind, and mentally ill. During this time, the way that Hitler and the
Nazis saw other races, was the same way they saw people who were Jewish. The Naziz
along with Hitler himself viewed Jewdism not as a religion, but as a poisonous race that
acts as a leech in the way that Judaism attaches itself to the host and weakens them. From
this point on this is when the idea of racial science was applied in the classroom. After
Hitler came into power, Nazi teachers use to record the physical appearances of the
students facial structures, like their nose length, eye color, and hair color to try to
determine if they were considered to be a part of the Aryan race. The students that did
not fit in the description were humiliated during the process. This information is all
relevant and useful for my essay because it allows the readers to understand the
background of how the Nazis along with Hitler viewed the Jews and other races besides
the Aryan race. It also makes it known to the reader that they viewed Judaism as a race,
not a religion. This will help prove the point later on in the essay that this issue is still
happening today with Muslims. Lastly, the fact that they use to try to determine if you
were a part of the Aryan race by physical features, proves that racial profiling was an
issue that was emerging in this time of history.
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Cohn, DVera. Millions of Americans Changed Their Racial or Ethnic Identity from One

Census to the Next. Pew Research Center, Pew Research Center, 5 May 2014,

www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/05/05/millions-of-americans-changed-their-racial-o

r-ethnic-identity-from-one-census-to-the-next/. Accessed 7 Apr. 2017.

DVera discusses how millions of americans are changing their race from one census to
another. From one census to the next, there was a dramatic change in how people were
identifying themselves ethnically. In addition, according to the annual Population
Association of America, it is mostly the Hispanics, the American Indians, and the mixed
Americans that are mostly contributing to this phenomenon. According to DVera, most
of these people are checking the other boxes that do not necessarily pertain to what they
use to identify themselves as. D Vera argues one of the reasons for this can be that
people are now changing the way that they are expressing their race or Hispanic
identities. Another reason DVera argues is Americans do not identify their race as being
the same as their ethnicity. The Census Bureau was able to analyze the data on more than
half of the US population, and they concluded that the amount of category changing was
even higher than the total population. It was also noticed that the Americans who
originally identified themselves as non- Hispanic white, Black, and Asian did not really
change their racial identity in the following census. The race that had the most turnover
was Hispanics. Most Hispanics now identify as some other race. The Census Bureau
says it is because Hispanic is not a race, it is an ethnicity. However, Census officially
noted that Hispanic ethnicity is not a race in the instructions between the 2000 and 2010
census. This is seen as one of the major reasons why the Hispanic community has the
largest number of turnovers. This proves to be relevant to my essay because It further
accentuates that is is difficult being recognized as a different race than what is not
dominant in society because of todays political controversies. It is difficult for some to
allow themselves to be identified as the groups that are not being accepted into society.

Fawcett, Liz. Religion, Ethnicity, and Social Change. Basingstoke : Macmillan, 2000,

docID=203765. Accessed 3 May 2017.

Through an excerpt of this novel, I was able to discover the difference between religion
and ethnicity. Ethnicity is used as a classification method. It identifies common heritage
traits, culture, or language/ dialect between others. These similar aspects helps people
create bonds with certain groups of people. These bonds are formed because of the
similarity between culture, history, and social experiences. The differences amongst
people in these areas are the reason for the formation of different ethnicities; thats why
these different values make up their own ethnicities. While on the other hand, religion is
a totally different concept. Religion is a term that is involved within culture. It refers to
all the concepts that fall under the categories pertaining to beliefs of gods or goddesses.
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This involves all spiritual or sacred things. The relevance and significance of this
scholarly source helps the reader understand that religion is completely different than a
person's ethnic background. Subsequently, it aids the reader to determine one's Ethnic
identity depending on if religion is a big part of their Ethnicity. This source aids in
probing the point that this is one of the reasons as to why people commonly mistake
religion for being an ethnicity or race. Both terms fall under one another, but they are all
independently different in their own ways.

Harcourt, Bernard E. Muslim Profiles Post-9/11: Is Racial Profiling an Effective

Counterterrorist Measure and Does It Violate the Right to Be Free from

Discrimination? By Bernard E. Harcourt :: SSRN, SSRN, 30 Mar. 2006,

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=pdf. Accessed 4 May 2017.

The following journal written by Bernard Harcourt is to say that racial profiling, although
effective, is not a just way to prevent terrorism. Harcourt states that focusing on just one
group of people gives freedom to other people because they are not seen as suspicious. It
is effective because it focuses on targeting a group of people where most terrorists
originate from, but at the same time it infringes on the rights of American citizens. This
can be seen as unconstitutional because any group of people should be allowed to have
access to all of their rights and not be targeted or vilified by the United States.
Racial profiling against middle eastern and Muslim people has been a subtle strategy by
the United States to fight terrorism after the twin towers event. This has diminished many
young people's chances of thriving in the U.S. Muslims have been targeted because of
this terrorist act and many innocent people have suffered from this image they have been
given. This is going to be helpful in writing our assignment because it is more evidence
that shows that Muslims are being treated unjustly. This will serve as evidence to further
our claim that Muslims are starting to be treated just like how Jews were treated prior to
the holocaust. This will help us because it shows that this problem is starting to happen
again. A group of people are treated differently and step by step they are treated even
worse until an event like the holocaust happens. The point is for people to learn and
recognize that this is happening and showing how this can lead to a major crisis.
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Spiegel, Paul. The Academic Case for Repealing Trumps Refugee and Travel Ban. The

Academic Case for Repealing Trumps Refugee and Travel Ban, 8 Feb. 2017,

www.thelancet.com/pb/assets/raw/Lancet/pdfs/S014067361730332X.pdf. Accessed 4

May 2017.

The following journal written by Paul Spiegel discusses Donald Trumps decision to ban
Muslims from certain countries from entering the United States. He said there was such
contempt among Muslims around the globe towards Americans that it was important to
repel them as a group, until the issue was better caught on. According to Paul Spiegel, the
author of this text, many people around the world will be impacted by this decision. He
says that Muslim students that are on student visas and work visas will be greatly affected
by this decision. He states that American universities provide education for many foreign
students and allows people from other countries to come here and gain knowledge.
Students then go back to their country and they can help contribute to the build of their
own country with the knowledge that they have gained in school here. People on student
visas here become knowledgeable individuals that help contribute to the growth of their
own countries. Many of these Muslim students on visas are from poorly developed third
world countries that need to grow and move forward. These students provide hope and
are a step in the right direction for these countries. The Muslim travel ban however gets
in the way of this and stops this from becoming a reality. This journal is going to be
strong evidence for our assignment. We are planning to use this journal to show how
Muslims today are basically being treated how Jews were treated back during the Nazi
era in Germany. They are not treated to the full extent that Jews were but this was how
the Jews were first being treated which ultimately led to the holocaust. It is important to
compare these two things and make sure that this country does not let another holocaust
like event happened again.