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CHAPTER ONE The Impact of National Race-Relations Incidents on College Experience Our United States of America is a unique and special country when com- pared to others around the world. From strictly a population perspective, the United States ranks 4th on the list of most populous countries in the world (The World Factbook 2017). Globally, the top ten countries are China (1,373,541,278), India (1,266,883,598), European Union (513,949,445), United States (323,995,528), Indonesia (258,316,051), Brazil (205,823,665), Pakistan (201,995,540), Nigeria (186,053,386,), Bangladesh (156,186,882), and Russia (142,355,415) (The World Factbook 2016). Japan (126,702,133) and Mexico (123,166,739) are a close 11th and 12th in world ranking. Yet what is so interesting, when we compare the United States with the rest of the world, is that a majority of our citizens, excluding the Native Americans, more than likely descended from one or more of these countries. The United States of America was founded from people of all racial and ethnic backgrounds who were mostly immigrants seeking a better life. Whether our ancestors were fleeing from political persecution indentured servants who wanted a better life from their home country people who wanted to follow a different religious faith than their predecessors enslaved Africans who were brought here forcibly for over 200 years to North America to help settle, establish, and grow many of the towns, villages, and cities across the United States or the Native Americans who were first here on this North American continent, all of us respect, honor, and appreciate our