Institutional Racism In Australia

Racism stood as one of the world’s major issues for the past few decades. Yet many people are not aware of how much racism still exists in our schools, workforces, and basically anywhere social lives are occurring. Though the prolonged fight for equal human rights is continuing its progress, racism still lives. It just evolved from the earlier violent and aggressive forms of racism have into a more subtle form of prejudice, reducing the chances of showing, but there are definitely revealed signs of it. In fact, the ideology underlying racism can become manifest in many aspects of social life if being payed attention to.

After reading the Chapter 5 and 6 it is evident that racism is present throughout the court system. Although the racism is generally paired with law enforcement, the court system has a major issue as well; especially when looking at the jury selection process. When thinking about the court process the jury selection does not really become an issue or brought to the public's attention unless it is a major case. The U.S. Supreme Court has also stated the jury is "an inestimable safeguard against the corrupt or overzealous prosecutor and against the compliant, biased, or eccentric judge" (Pp. 255.) The jury plays a vital role in the criminal justice system.

The theme that we’ve studied is Conflict. Conflict can be a struggle, whether it is physical or mental. Conflict can be a disagreement between two or more sides. It can be much more complex such as a group against group conflict, for example, “Racism”, or even an Internal Conflict, a conflict within yourself. Conflict is a thing that very much happens in our life.

Discrimination of Aboriginals in North America Ever since Europeans began to settle in North America, they have been denying Aboriginals their basic human rights. They desired their abundant land in order to use it for their own selfish reasons. In both historical and contemporary times, one can find many examples of the discrimination Native Americans have faced. Upon examining various events, one can conclude that the society should be treating Aboriginals in a way that ensures that they receive the rights and respect that all human beings deserve.

In much of the western world, and particularly in Europe, there is a widespread perception that multiculturalism has ‘failed’ and that governments who once embraced a multicultural approach to diversity are turning away, adopting a strong emphasis on civic integration. As of today however, at least a third of Australian citizens now have ancestors other than British or Irish and Australia has absorbed immigrants from over 240 countries and places around the globe. Our multicultural society is a product of the successive waves of mass immigration following the Second World War. Australia once was an Anglo-Saxon preserve that attempted to exclude people of colour through restricting immigration to people of British or Western Europe background.

People experience racism on a wide scale of intent and severity, from outright violence or hate speech to micro-aggressions. However, the true paradox of the modern age in regards to racism stems from those individuals who believe in racial equality, yet still hold onto prejudices and practice micro-aggressions. These people may now be more influential and pose more of a threat to social progress than those who are outright bigots. Avowed bigots are now immediately denounced and shunned by the media, and understood to be ignoramuses by decent and educated people. However, those decent and educated people who recognize the monstrosity of racism are the same ones committing micro-aggressions and half-heartedly believing in and reinforcing prejudices

In the 1960s, Mississippi was the poorest state in the nation. Mississippi is steeped in African-American history. Unfortunately, a lot of that history is considered some of the darkest times in American history. Society was strictly segregated along racial lines; black and white.

Racism and Media Relations Racism consists of several different and often related ideologies around the concept of race centered. Modern versions are often in social perception of biological differences between peoples based. This may take the form of social measures, practices or beliefs or political systems, look at the different breeds as inherently superior or inferior to one another will be ranked, based on common suspects to take inheritable characteristics, abilities, or qualities. It can also be said that the members of different races should be treated differently. Among the questions, how to define racism whether to forms of discrimination that are unintended, such as assumptions about preferences and capabilities of the other

Jane Elliott has constructed a study to simulate racism throughout today’s society. The study included volunteers of many nationalities and gender. Instead of ranking people by skin color, the study ranked subjects/volunteers by eye color to simulate discrimination in society. Typically people with brown eyes are seen as a minority in society so throughout the study, brown eyes were the superior group. When the subjects are ranked in a vertical pattern as in a hierarchy as superior or inferior they are experiencing social stratification.

Discrimination is defined as the treatment of people in favor or against because of their skin color, gender, ethnicity, and religion. In all kinds of discrimination, the starting point is the construction of difference, which means what it is to be seen as the normal, the social norm in the society. An example, important in this context, is that the social norm in Germany is to be white (We may need to talk about this point). People in groups that do not live up to the dominant norm can therefore be discriminated (IDA-NRW, 2016).