Has it ever occurred to you what exactly makes people relate to each other? Whether it's simple things like food and music or more complex things like language and religion, feeling part of something gives us a sense of satisfaction and common ground. Humans have an inevitable need to belong. However, when the factors that make people interconnected are distorted, the results can be catastrophic. In this essay, I will discuss how the genocidal events that took place in the United States against Native Americans, the Belgian Congo, and German South West Africa were carried out and why elements of exploitation, racialization, he identity and inferiority played a role in During American expansion to the Western frontier, the belief in nationalism played an important role. Common interest in food, work, education, religion, and customs are factors that influence a person to identify as American. The settlers had to practice cultural assimilation to the American way of life, which was different from their European customs. Anything that was considered outside the “norm” of the American way of life was considered a threat. In Jacoby's "Broad Platform of Extermination," the experience of the Apache tribe on the U.S.-Mexico border is analyzed. “The complex mosaic of indigenous peoples in the Arizona Territory, with their marked linguistic, political and cultural differences, was reduced for most new settlers to two categories – peaceful or hostile – with the term Apache being applied to any group considered part of the indigenous people of the Arizona Territory. the last." (Jacoby, page 252) "For many settlers, the solution to this "Apache" menace was equally simple. "Extermination is our only hope, and the sooner the better," they say. .... middle of paper ......e defending their culture and their people The German colonist viewed Africans as a source of cheap labor and supported their extermination from their lands In legal matters. , the testimony of seven Africans is equivalent to that of a white man The excessive actions of the German army led to the near extermination of the Herero people of southwest Africa. Racialization, identity, and inferiority all played a role in why and how the genocidal events that took place in the United States with the German army, the Belgian Congo, and South Africa. West German occurred When the feeling of superiority takes hold of one group of people, it can easily lead to discrimination of another group, just as was the case with the genocides I analyzed. Lack of commonality and cultural tolerance led to pivotal events that affected many people along their journey..