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When about three hundred Hasidic Jews moved into a small town in Iowa named Postville, that was full of Christians, a collision of cultures was inevitable. Originally, Postville was a small farming community that consisted of approximately 1,478 white Christians, and cornfields on every corner. The people who lived at that time had lived there for their whole lives and had grown up with the same people, and everybody was friendly towards one another. As expected, this astonished them when these “foreigners” moved in to their town and were not friendly like they were used to. The fact that they had very little to say to them and that they kept to themselves so much put the people of Postville on edge. They were even more astonished when they discovered that these Jews refused to eat pork because it was said to go against their strict religious laws. In 1988 an abandoned slaughter house was bought by a family of Hasidic Jews from New York and turned into a kosher meat plant. Kosher meats are from kosher animals that were slaughtered and prepared the proper way, and that do not come in contact with pork or anything that has touched pork, even the utensils. It must also be mixed with other kosher products. The slighted bit of non kosher product could ruin an entire meal. This particular kosher meat plant processed chicken, lamb, turkey and cattle. A huge menorah, a symbol of Judaism, was placed in front of this plant. The family hired about thirty trained rabbis to work in the plant. The new recruiters moved to Postville, along with many of their friends, and relatives. As the business increased, the Jewish family hired a whole new group of people, Mexicans. Unlike the Jews, the Mexicans made themselves at home in Postville. This caused even more unease, because they would hang out in large groups on the sidewalk. Many people became so afraid that they complained to the law enforcement and had police patrol the streets.

The people of Postville were ethnocentric, which means they judgmental towards Jews and Mexicans because they practiced a different religion than them, and they had different ways of life, which scared many of the Postville people. They had a mine set that what they believed and their way of life was the right way, and if these new comers did not want to convert to their ways, then they should go back to where they came from. The Mexicans seemed to have a sense of cultural relativism, meaning that they were more open when it came to religious practices. They included themselves in the Postville churches and hung out on the streets, as did the Postville people.

In watching this video, I realized how easy it is to get caught up in racial discrimination. It can be extremely frustrating to have foreigners come to America and not being able to speak English fluently. However, on the other hand, looking at it from their perspective, it is very difficult to learn a new language quickly and it must be daunting coming to a new country when they have lived somewhere else for their whole lives. There are many more opportunities here in America than there are in other counties. America now consists of a variety of cultures and religions, which is why it has earned its name “the melting pot”.