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Abstract This thesis discusses the cultural collision that might occur among members of the same race. The African race is given as an example to show how members of the same race turn against each other, regarding themselves and their brothers as strangers. Such collision is shown by the researcher as a direct repercussion to the cultural collision that occurred between Europe and Africa. This collision is revealed to be a fabricated idea that took culture as its camouflage. Finding in Africa and the African race a source of wealth, Europe began to use its culture as a tool of racism. This was done by creating the illusion of a superior white culture that had the right to rule the helpless barbarian Africa. from such racist beliefs emerged slavery and colonialism to be Europe’s means of dispersing Africans and turning them against their culture as well as themselves. Regarding the African diaspora that resulted from the European slave trade, the researcher deals with African Americans; tracing their journey from Africa to America through the Atlantic slave trade. Black Americans are chosen as a living proof of how slavery stripped Africans of their humanity and culture. |