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Response to Tocqueville’s: Three Racial Groups

Tocqueville begins to talk about and establish the three different races that were in occurrence during the 1830’s. He describes these three races as “naturally distinct…hostile to each other.” These two cues is what is discoverable at first glance between all the race, because of these differences barriers were raised right away through education, law, origins, and outward characteristics. The only leverage that brought them together was the soil were they stood. Tocqueville continues his conversation stating how their grew to be a social status between the three groups, being the European whites the highest. Society begins to be focused on the stratification, religious critic, political critic, and economic critic. These three critics allowed the European race to gain power. 

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