Alexander Clawson

Sociology

Sophia

                                                                  Race

      I believe in the beginning when each race was in their own region that people differentiated each other to know where they stand in case a war or disaster happened. A good example of this is Europe and China. Europe’s structure of serfdom lead to commoners trying to set themselves unnoticeable as possible to get by in life but nobles wanted to show off this lead to a racism of who is from where and does he respect me and my king. We still do this today as seen in gangs like west side to east side. In china which is much larger than any European country they fought over land and ideology, as well as individuals fighting over who was the strongest or their clan was better than others. Now when new individuals began coming to their countries the leaders were highly respected because they came a long way to learn from or teach to them. However, as they became more common and instead of integrating with the natives they isolated themselves from others making them seem weird and different. This led some people who disliked the foreigners for any number of reasons like financial competition, jealously over physical attributes like height, or for male’s penis size is an example, and those reasons lead them to start telling others to watch out for them. Now why would a normal person be scared of someone unless they were trouble? So rumors were made and this brought angry over stupid things or problems they couldn't blame anyone else on but themselves or nature. In Africa is where what we know of slavery started. This spread to the Muslims but slavery was also in the north, the Vikings, and in Asia. Asian slavery was for money and prisoners of war. They were treated fairly if they did what they were supposed to and granted status if they did very well and vice visa killed or worse if they did badly. The Vikings only got their slaves through prisoners of war, buying them, or they were born slaves. Viking slaves often were granted status if they did good things for their masters or their family was free after long years of service. These slaves were treated better because they looked like them, when the Muslims started buying slaves from a major Africa Kingdom the queen ruling realized what may happen if everyday people were enslaved so trying to apprize the more advance Muslims she made it so that only non-Muslims could be enslaved. As Christians had have slaves known as serfs to protect them, when African slaves began to be on the market around the same time as Columbus went to the Americas, they had no such protection. This got worse when so individuals wanted to treat them worse for their own reasons. This spread to the Americas where there wasn’t as much rules so mistreatment grew. Now that there are laws against such mistreatment there is a reverse affect due to other races trying to regain years of should have been fairness was unfairness. This can be seen as black power Asian town and etc. The best way to fix this is by teaching children what truly happens when people try to be better than others by lowering them and the unfairness it brings.