...Microaggressions in Everyday Life Chinese people consist of the majority—Han and other 55 ethnic minorities, such as Hui, also called Muslim Chinese. Han and Hui have different living customs. For example, Hui are forbidden to eat pork while pork is the most common meat consumed by Han. In my high school, there were two dinning rooms: a big one for Han students, and the other small one for Hui students. I had dinner with my friend-Qian, who was Hui, but stayed with me in Han Chinese dinning room on that day. I enjoyed my pork dish, and wanted to share it with her but she refused. Qian explained, “I am Hui people, we do not eat pork.” I did not give up and said, “Come on, I have known you for ages, we are the same, we are all Chinese people. I can not see any differences.” My friend began to keep silent, and I kept persuading her, “just try one slice of the pork, they are really delicious”. However, my friend frowned and said “I can not eat it. The smell of the pork makes me sick”. After hearing her words, I stopped persuading her to eat pork because I did not want to make her uncomfortable. Then we began to talk other topics. I was unaware that what I committed was a microaggression at that time. Microaggressions are verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional happening in daily life, conveying communicating hostile, derogatory,...
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...lower socioeconomic patients, exhibit how the power of race can be so influential. White Americans would not experience these same issues when seeking mental health treatment. Mental health can ultimately be defined with regard to societal norms, as for the African American community mental health may constitute as the sanity of individuals. Those in the black community that partake in notions such as skin bleaching, and hating their own race, are often overlooked in showing attributing factors of poor mental health. Racism serves as such a significant role in the outcome of an individual’s mental state, as all-inclusively racial stratification for African Americans shown through research produces mental health issues and psychopathology. Referencing the correlation between race and mental health there are several stereotypes that can be associated with this concept. To better elaborate, some stereotype examples may imply how African American men are always aggressive, or that African American...
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...It’s no secret that throughout the course of history at home in the Americas and abroad, black people have suffered tremendously for a factor they could not control, the color of their skin. It has left the black people of the world constantly fighting for their basic human rights. Personally, I believe that Americans almost practice a sort of caste system with black people only above people of color who have immigrated to the United States. It isn’t impossible for an individual to break their caste but it is rare due to the systemic and systematic racism that white America have had set in place for years already.Garvey’s Declaration addresses the oppressing party of black people and recognizes that the white privilege will no longer be accepted by the black community and he uses the Declaration as a stand to recognize this. Garvey had an abundance of declarations on this document that I feel are still to this day after almost a hundred years since the drafting and publication of this document not implemented....
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...As societies are evolving, people are becoming more and more aware of the effects language has on relationships. It has become important for the wider population to take care of what they say and in what situation they say it. This has been incorporated in the term now called Political Correctness or PC. In the last decade, this term has increasingly gotten popular in almost every institution of society. In this paper, the prevalence of political correctness in politics is analyzed. As politics plays a part in connecting all other function of society, it is important to take a view of how the lack of political correctness has changed the society in difference forms by causing an upsurge in hate crime and white supremacy. In this paper, the presidency of Obama and Trump is contrasted as two differing sides of PC and the harmful effects of Trump’s anti-PC campaign are showcased. Political Correctness in Politics The term Political correctness has been weaving in and out of political talks since quite a while but...
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