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This 9 page paper examines what ideology is, how it has impacted African-Americans and Native Americans; it also defines several terms related to globalization; and finally looks briefly at the way in which capitalism causes poverty. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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fatal consequences. This paper examines what ideology is, how it has impacted African-Americans and Native Americans; it also defines several terms related to globalization; and finally looks briefly at
the way in which capitalism causes poverty. The Trap of Ideology An ideology is a system of beliefs and ideas about the way the world works; we seem
to see them most often in religion and politics. Ideologies can be and have been perverted into excuses for some of the worst excesses of human behavior: the
Nazi ideology of a master race gave them the excuse they needed to commit mass murder. Likewise, because everyone is convinced that his religion is the only true faith,
religious ideologies lead to slaughters in the name of God. And if people hold the belief that they are superior to others because of their skin color, they are
ideologically committed to the practice of racism. Racism Both African Americans and Native Americans have been victims of ongoing prejudice in a nation that claims to offer
equality to all. The history of racism in America goes back to the founding of the country, since slavery was practiced in America from the earliest days. It
took a vicious Civil War to legally end the "peculiar institution," although the South continued to pass such things as the Jim Crow laws that made segregation legal. The
Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was a watershed moment in the history of black America, but the struggle is not over. White Americans who adopt an "ideology
of racism" believe that blacks are "intellectually deficient" and that being deficient, "neither intellectual, cultural, nor moral excellences" are within their reach (Thomas, 1996, p. 107). The prejudice comes
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