Geografia

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COMITTEE: Economic and Financial
DELEGATION: United States
LOCATION: South America
POSITION: One of the most important countries
INTERNACIONAL TREATILS: Internationalconvention on elimination of all formal discrimination.

Racism in America is one of many documented widespread in contemporary history. Although ethnocentrism has affected mankind since ancient times. Themost obvious and have been known in European countries, China, Japan, and North America. Hollywood and the U.S. film industry has been one of the means that have more widespread phenomenon in theUnited States.
This prejudice is Manifested Mainly U.S. born whites and whites against African Americans, and more recently Chinese, Japanese, Hispanic immigrants, Jews. After his release During TheCivil War by Abraham Lincoln, the southern states who resented Their defeat in the civil war enacted a variety of laws to discriminate against blacks.
As states could not remove the black rights, whichare guaranteed in the constitution, was used in its place "segregation" was legal for many years under the idea of "Separated but Equal". The idea was that while the opportunities were provided forboth races were equal, it was legal.
The civil rights subcommittee of the House of Representatives considers possible legislation to end racial discrimination. Several witnesses suggested that Congressordered studies documenting how often certain groups or particular victims are detained, and whether they were actually a threat to the United States.
ORGANIZATIONS:
* National Association forthe Advancement of Blacks
* Global Rights (is an international human rights advocacy that is associated with activists and organizations around the world to create more just societies. Our work inLatin America has more than 25 years and during this time we have worked in more than ten countries in the region to reduce racial discrimination against African descendants and indigenous peoples.)...