I think that in the United States at the time of the civil rights movement race was probably a cause for more divisions than class due to things like Jim Crow laws. However, I believe that over time Americans have progressively gotten seen less divides in race and ethnicity. I believe this because many groups that were once subjected to racism are no longer subjected to really any. A good example of these groups include the Irish, Germans, and Italians. Furthermore, I can confidently say that racism in general between all groups is nowhere as bad as it once was.

When it comes to class, I don’t see that many divisions caused by it today when compared to how it was in the past. However, I think nowadays class issues cause more division. I think this because of the rise of socialist groups in the U.S. I really don’t care about class, and I don’t see it as a big deal as life in America is without a doubt better than it was a century ago and many people in foreign countries that have low standards of living would probably do anything to trade spots with homeless people in America. I think that because in other countries things like starvation are still prevalent, in America it’s just about nonexistent.

However, what I just said doesn’t apply in many other countries. In places such as the Balkans, Nigeria, and places that are very racially heterogeneous (with the exception of countries in the Americas) race is a much larger cause for division than class. However, racially homogeneous countries typically have massive problems with class. These places include Russia and the PRC which are both practically corporatist and have horrendous economies. Class divisions are prevalent there as everyone who wasn’t in the upper class got messed up by inflation and economic crashes while the upper class remained largely untouched due to things like party membership.