Discrimination is an unseen weapon used by today 's generation. America herself has become extremely prejudice without acknowledging the consequences of her actions. Although America is not deliberately following the ways of her past, her uncanny behavior is only worsening the discrimination she swears to rid have herself of. Consequently speaking America has attempted to rid herself of her past misconceptions, she has mistakenly given her past discriminated victims more rights than everyone else. Living in this beautiful country I have come to realize that our government feels as if they need to make up for our past political parties mistakes. Although they had good intentions, it has only made it harder only the majority of the population. America is unknowingly judgmental towards any select person that has a belief or opinion that is not supported at the current time. As an example people have seen the harsh behavior gay people have faced over the last hundred years so they decided to make their beliefs the most important. …show more content…
My peers look at me in disgust when I do or say anything that is not politically correct. I cannot express my faith in this country without judgmental comments, about me shoving my religion down their vulnerable throats. To further the explain the perplexity of Americas biased nature; when applying for scholarships and or college there are ethnic options. When I first discovered this I was immediately confused as to why this would be necessary to receive aid and an excellent education, but confusion led to frustration. I was appalled when I realized that there are secular scholarships, grants, and colleges for every ethnicity except Caucasian. Caucasian is the mix of races that came from Europe, Russia, or parts of Asia. Basically they have no idea what race we are, but can anyone in America fully claim one
The discrimination of the 1960’s and 1970’s toward the chicanos can still be seen today. Donald Trump, he’s in the media on T-shirt, and hates chicanos. I the 1960’s chicanos were pay discriminated and racially attacked. The chicanos and Philpano movement lead by Chezar Cheves granted illegal, and legal farm workers better wages. Although the unequal pay for chicanos is this happening the times are about to get a lot worse for them.
The way African Americans responded to discrimination has changed over the years. Specifically 1890s-1920s and the 1950s-1960s. The strategies and tactics of these two groups altered over time, and with that so did their goals. The reason why African Americans decided to speak up was due to the fact of abuse they'd been suffering for years, maily being segregated and treated like aliens. These people were physically and mentally abused .
In the late 1800s and early 1900s of America, discrimination based on race, gender, and ethnicity in immigrants groups like Native American, Chinese, Irish, and African American is justified through personal and social beliefs, customs, and culture in the growing social structure for a bigger and better America. Native White Americans feared beliefs, customs, and cultures of the Native American, Chinese, Irish, and African American related to lack of understanding and communication problems. The lack of understanding and communication efforts add fire to an already discriminated social structure creating conflict rather than resolving issues. The culture of Irish was typically very poor, unskilled, and illiterate driven to America by
Our country built itself off the ideals of providing people the essential human and civil rights they deserved. Although it was not always like this, people had to fight and risk a lot to achieve these rights. Overtime people began to notice the unfair treatment towards people that were different; however, some people knew, “That all men are created equal” (Declaration
1) The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868. The Fourteen Amendment made all persons which are born or naturalized in the U.S. citizens, it includes former slaves. It also states that all citizens of the United States have the right to due process and equal protection of law a, without the discrimination in terms of race or any other reason. 2)
In the 18th century, North America was predominately Christian protestant. This was the result of the British colonization. The industrialization of the northern states began with the introduction of the railroad and steel manufacturing. Labor was recruited from heavily Roman Catholic areas. Immigrants brought their religion and cultures which were in contrast to the standard British oriented religion and culture.
America has an undeniably abhorrent history of discrimination, but many parts of the country’s daunting background
The government of the United States has taught and interpreted the idea of race onto its citizens. Race is not something that we are born with but instead we are taught who to discriminate against. Burgett and Hendler (2014a) state that race has established, “who may be property, and who are citizens, and among the latter who get to vote and who do not, who are protected by law and who are not, who have access and privilege and who are (to be) marginalized” (p. 208). The success of the United States as a nation can be attributed to the work of slaves. “[As stated by Bush], ‘the very people traded into slavery helped to set America free through their struggle of injustice’”
How do you find out about the nation’s news? Whether it be by social media outlets, such as Facebook, or by the good old fashioned newspaper, or by watching the news, you might find that there is an issue, concerning race, throughout our country. Although, the United States of America might seem as if it has overcome its racial problem, involving caucasians and people of color, it hasn’t. The touchy “race” problem can currently be found in news media. Racial bias in news media is proving to be a problem in the United States of America because it is changing the minds of people in a derogative way, it promotes racial profiling and stereotypes negatively, and it is dangerous to both the people in close connection to the situation and everyone
There is rarely any talk about the post 9/11 racism that followed after the dust from the fallen towers had settled. Since 9/11, “increased racial and religious animosity has left Arabs, Middle Easterners, Muslims, and those who bear stereotyped physical resemblance to members of these groups, fearful of potential hatred and hostility from persons of other cultures” After September 11, 2001 there was a new profound nationalism spirit, that many Americans followed, which unfortunately turned into racism. As former president George w. Bush had said “You 're either with us or against us in the fight against terror." This convinced millions that our freedom was worth defending at all costs. This led many people to believe that if they weren’t
As described in the text, institutional discrimination is caused from governmental policies and public institutions, which favor the more dominant groups but offer no support for the less dominant group. I believe that institutional discrimination is apparent in today 's society. The video provided, "Race the House we Live in," explains that individuals came from all over to enter into America (California Newsreel, 2010). This was referred to as a melting pot; however, policies favored white immigrants (California Newsreel, 2010). I think that institutionalized racism prevents our society from being the best it can be.
African-Americans have always endured discrimination throughout history. In 1879 and 1880, a large number of Southern blacks traveled to Kansas pursuing freedom from violence, economic opportunity, political equality and access to education. Although these 40,000 to 60,000 individuals were courageous to reach Kansas many ended up as inexperienced laborers. In 1900, they possessed a smaller fraction of land than they had at the end of Reconstruction. Black males were prohibited from employments in offices such as clerks and from administrative positions in workshops and factories.
After a troublesome and torrid time, the black people or what so called slaves, were entering the 20th century with hope of not being discriminated after the slavery had been abolished in the late 19th century. The beginning of 20th century had overseen the stampede of worldwide immigrants to America as they seek for a better life. As for African-Americans, they were entering the phase where they found themselves almost identical with the past century despite the slavery being abolished. Though the abolishment of slavery was written in the 13th Amendment, some of the states still legalized it. They were still in the same position as they were before in some of the states in America.
The exercise "What is Race?" ameliorated my way of thinking about race. I could change wrong belief that I have had about the classification of race in ancient time that is race is sorted by genetic base and outward feature such as skin color. I learned some interesting fact that ancient people divided people in terms of religion, status, class, and language. Being bigoted about races, I thought it was a right thing to divide people with physical differences because it is an archetypal idea to believe in the era I live. However, it is not true that outward characteristic can define race because there are mixed races that effective to certain physical traits.
As far as morality and justice are concerned, if a school or business or government declines to practice affirmative action, that’s okay” – says the