The Holocaust, prosecution of gypsies, lynching of African Americans, Mexico 1968, El Salvador late 70's, and World War two all these are examples of human hatred and intolerance through out history. How is it that as human beings, the smartest creatures on the face of the planet, that we can't learn from our mistakes? Like a young toddler learning to walk, everybody stumbles but they get up and learn from their mistakes. How hard is it for one to learn from history? Hitler's hatred didn't appear from out of the blue, he was influenced by examples of other hatred in the past. Intolerance and hatred has always taken place and it will always take place since hatred is always derived from hatred that is as true today as it was true one hundred years ago.

Racism and hatred didn't start off with Hitler hating Jews, or the KKK murdering blacks. Social injustice has been occurring since the growth of civilization, no matter if it was different social classes, beliefs, or the color of the skin. Throughout history poor people have been treated unjustly, looked down upon, and thought to of caused and spread a great number

As long racism and hatred is found on the inside, it can't be combated on the outside. Many people during the war shared this same opinion, for example Harper lee wrote in To Kill A Mockingbird on page 247: "... Jem, how can hate Hitler so bad an' then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home-". Much of the war was being fought right here in the U.S. with the unjust ways minorities were being treated. The war has ended but racism still has a strong presence in everyday life. For example in the south the KKK is still a popular hate organization, anti-gay organizations, teenagers making racist remarks and jokes back and forth at each other, all of this is filled with hatred. The youth of the WWII generation gained positive and negative influences from the war. For many the war was a turning point in their life by using it as an event to reflect upon and learn from their mistakes. Yet others received the negative emotions from the war and used them to hate others by wanting to get revenge. This didn't make them any better than Hitler himself.

Each country has it's own type of racism and racial discrimination. An excellent example in which discrimination h

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