Diversity In America

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Ever since it was founded, United States has always been a melting pot for diversity as it continues to become diverse as time pass by. Diversity can be described as a scenario where an organization or even a nation has different people from various races and cultures. The United States is known for its diversity as many people go there due to the availability of opportunities. Diversity was once regarded as a tool that brings people together, but this is not the case anymore. This is because diversity has now gone to become an asset. As they go there, these immigrants carry with them their cultures and norms including their religion which brings about regions diversity. Many people tend to believe that religious diversity is helping America …show more content…

Slaves would be delivered from Africa to come and work on farms and in the process taught about Christianity. Forms many years, African American, began following Christianity as they were forced to believe in God. They were often segregated from the rest until the emergence of the civil rights era. The civil rights era brought about the development of numerous civil rights movements whose core aim was to stop segregation. However, this was not the case as these movements were responsible for furthering segregation within Christianity religion. As Marsden states, during the civil rights era, numerous African American leaders opted to isolate themselves from the white religious leaders despite them being on the same spiritual sect. This resulted in a further division of races as people opted to segregate themselves based on their belief despite the Civil Rights Act being enacted. Marsden (1990) argues that even after the formulation of the Civil Rights African American church opted to isolate themselves from their white counterpart and this brought about further division among the American people. The Civil rights act aimed at bringing people to common grounds and uniting races but nothing as such happened as these divisions are currently present in our modern society as blacks isolate themselves from the …show more content…

The American people have taken their bias a step further and incorporated it into the system of government. This is clear as the government uses religion when they aim at pursuing prejudice against particular groups. This can be seen in the case of the church of Jesus of Latter-day Saints vs. Amos. This case was brought forward to the Supreme Court as an employee form Mormon church was dismissed from his job just because he could not present a certificate claiming he is in good relation with the church. As a result, the establishment clause was brought in, and the court argued that the discrimination was by the existing laws and was not violating any clause. As a result, the Supreme Court was forced to amend the law thus allow religious organization hire people based on their religious belief thus safeguarding their belief. Instead, if this move is helping the nation, it weakness it as religious groups start showing prejudice in their hiring process as they focus more on religious beliefs instead of qualifications. Numerous cases prove just how the government is practicing prejudice based on religion. Another case that proves this is the Zelman vs. Simmons-Harris where the court ended up approving the usage of a voucher to distribute government funds to religious schools. In this case, the court ended up arguing that the whole case had a secular intention to

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