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This 7 page paper examines some of the issues surrounding change and its concomitant racism. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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can bring people together; more often, people caught up in change feel alienated from one another, and suspicious as well. This paper examines some of the issues surrounding change and
its concomitant racism. Changing Times - Racist Attitudes Possibly the biggest change in American history happened September 11, 2001. The Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the World Wars, Korea, Vietnam,
waves of immigration, expansion, globalization-these all changes America greatly, but the attack on 9/11 changed things in a matter of minutes. It was a shock from which we are still
trying to recover. Journalist Annette Fuentes tells of speaking to her neighbor John, a man of Lebanese descent, immediately after the attack. He was, she says "a
plumber and a tough guy" but now he was afraid: a co-worker came up to him and said, "You people did it again!" (Fuentes, 2004). John thought of defending
himself, then just let it go, fearful of what the other man, enraged by the attack, would do to him-even though he had no part in the disaster whatsoever. "Racist
stereotyping, harassment and self-censorship all played out in that brief encounter. John thinks of himself as American, but one hate-filled man in one moment could challenge his identity and sense
of security" (Fuentes, 2004). Journalist Dale Maharidge, in his latest book Homeland, "answers that question and raises many more about the impact 9/11 had on the psyche of
a nation already divided by race, class, religion and, most fundamentally, by different understandings of what it means to be American" (Fuentes, 2004). Rather than going to Washington or
New York, Maharidge went to the "heartland" of America-the small towns and cities scattered throughout the country, "from Chicago to West Virginia to Maine," trying to find out what the
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