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This 6 page report provides a broad overview of Americans’ attitudes about race, religion and disability. The fact remains that Americans are caught up in religious debates, misconceptions, and suspicions of one another’s precepts of faith. This paper examines a number of the aspects of the attitudes that are prevalent throughout the United States. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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East Texas town of Jasper. The British publication, The Economist (6/20/98), sent one of its correspondents to report on Jasper, its people, and their attitudes. When the correspondent visited
a casual basketball game he found that both the players and the observers were black. Asking if any white kids ever joined in the game he was told: "What
you think, fool, that everythings all right cos the old folk says so? Aint all right man, we apart, we always been apart (pp. 30). What the reporter also
discovered was that in Jasper, Texas --and apparently throughout the rest of America -- relations between the races are as deceptive as ever. A similar statement may also be made
about religious attitudes throughout the United States, as well. While there appears to be a tolerance for religious attitudes of all types throughout the country, the fact remains that
Americans are still caught up in religious debates, misconceptions, and suspicions of one anothers precepts of faith. According to Lee (1993), studies on culture and ethnicity in American psychology generally
fail to honestly examine the limitations of American mainstream psychology. One limitation is a tendency to stress individualism as a primary and desirable. Such an attitude presents itself time and
time again in the pervading interest in areas of social psychology, abnormal psychology and individual differences. However, even the examinations of American psychology are limited since researchers are often ethnocentrically
biased and have developed fundamental prejudices or even subtle gradients of attitude about other cultures, ethnic or racial groups. Such attitudes have also expanded to encompass attitudes related to
physical disabilities and/or skills and capabilities. Despite its great cultural heritage of diversity, there are numerous flaws in modern Americans tolerance and attitudes of acceptance.
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