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I am a White American that has lived in the same community since I was born. The influence of race in my community is fairly simple. I live in a small town with my group of people, Whites, being the dominate group, and only one other active playing minority group, Mexicans. The White people and the Mexican people have a feud against one another within my community. Racism and prejudice is quite high between the two races. Cultural differences and lack of accommodation within the community feeds the prejudice fire.
My community is about 65% White and 35% Mexican, so a majority of the community does look like me. The Mexican population in my community is huge mostly because of the agriculture situations here. We have a huge amount of orchards, and migrant workers come from all over. I would say during harvest season the majority of our communities' population is Mexican. In my 21 years of living here I have probably only seen two or three Black, Asian, and Indian people. Our cities......

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