When dealing with carrying capacity, the theme of competition arises. Competition in ecology is the struggle for resources between other organisms within an ecosystem, as they’re all fighting to survive and thrive. In the DVD, Race, the Power of an Illusion, we learned a great deal about the idea of racism. Over time we have developed the idea that whites were the superior race to african americans, asians, latinos, native americans, etc. After settling into the US, agriculture became the way of living. As a result, the demand for workers rose significantly. At first, the lower class europeans served as indentured servants until the demand outweighed the supply, thus slavery was introduced. Slavery gave landowners a cheap alternative to the use of indentured servants and made the use of indentured servants expendable. Competition rose for those lower class europeans and demanded that they become a higher job than the african american slaves. As a result, many of these lower class europeans became overseers.
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