The Protestant ethic that came to dominate class divisions (social stratification) within American society is rooted in the Protestant ethic, one which traditionally holds that white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) are of a superior ‘race’. Ultimately, the Calvinistic view is an 16 th century ideological way of thinking which states that white supremacy was somehow predetermined by the divine grace of God’s hand through some sort of heavenly process of predestination, also commonly known as Manifest Destiny . With America’s interpretation of divine providence, it all began with ethnic cleansing and genocide during the colonial Indian wars and the Acadian expulsion, lasting from 1755 to 1803, and with this the stage was set for the later white supremacy movements from the 19 th century to the present. Other forms of racism, of course, include Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim, and anti-Asian sentiments. However, without a doubt, the two groups most historically
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