...Exploring Racial Discrimination Against Asian Americans According to Whitlock and Bronski, hate is not the sole cause of things such as “racism, misogyny, homophobia, violence against transgender people, violence against disabled people, or economic cruelty” (Whitlock and Bronski 16). The first two chapters of Considering Hate introduces the concept of hate as a feeling that is not just a personal one, but one that is perpetuated further by the structure of society and popular culture. In the first two chapters of Considering Hate, the concept of hate is introduced as a feeling that is not just a personal one, but one that is perpetuated further by the structure of society and popular culture. Minority groups that have experienced instances...
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...the nation of immigrants, with approximately 13 percent, nearly 41 million, foreign-born population. (“U.S. Foreign-Born Population Trends”) But despite U.S. citizenship, immigrants today are seen as less than equal to natural born Americans. Their cultural belonging, allegiance, language, as well as other qualifications, are questioned. Discrimination against immigrants is prevalent and on the rise. It is also a key obstacle to the full integration of immigrants in the society. Mistrust, denigration and discrimination against immigrants is nothing new, with many policies formulated in the past, such as-Alien and Sedition Acts, Immigration Act of 1924, Chinese Exclusion Act, Executive Order 9066 and many others, it has been inherent in American history for decades. Most of this discrimination stems from xenophobia, an irrational dislike or fear of...
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...ages, and sexual orientations. This makes the United States one of the most diverse nations on earth. It is estimated between the years 2010 to 2050 minorities will increase from 36% to 54% of the population. (Schaefer, p. 4, 2012)(p.4). Immigration is the main reason for this estimate. It is estimated that in 2050, 67 million people will be immigrants and another 47 million people will be the children of immigrants. (The "Pew Research Center") (2012). While there are benefits of such a diverse nation, the United States still faces many challenges, because of prejudice and discrimination. With the rising population of immigrants, the population of people living in poverty will also rise. With the rise of people living in poverty, there will also be a rise in crime. The reason for this is, people who live in poverty have less access to high paying jobs are more likely to participate in illegal activities, such as dealing drugs to make money. Minorities and immigrants are statistically paid less than whites, for doing the same jobs. So this is what leads to poverty. The rising crime rate among minorities and immigrants also leads to the separation of families. Many children in poverty ridden neighborhoods are raised by single parents. The rising number of crimes in these neighborhoods leads to more parents, mostly men put in prison, therefor leaving the women to raise the children on their own. Another disadvantage is more prejudice and discrimination. Prejudice...
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...growing power of media, racism against minority groups is easily found everywhere whether it is obvious, or subtle. Racism in our media must come to an end. In our society, racism has always been an issue. "Even in New Zealand?" some may ask, because we are famous for being culturally open. In New Zealand, the largest racial minority group are the Maori who are historically...
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...United States. Over the years, there has been a marked increase in bias and hate crimes regionally and nationwide against illegal immigrants. Our country’s population is made up of approximately 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants. Over the past and current years, evidence has overwhelmingly shown that immigrants play a vital role in our country’s economic, social, and cultural prosperity. Therefore, responsible social, political, and church groups should try to change Americans’ hearts and minds about immigration and about persistent bias against people who are already members of our society. Illegal immigration is not an issue that can be simply solved through mass...
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...discussion is Greek Americans. A) Historical Relationships: The first Greek immigrants are said to have arrived during the 1820’s in small numbers. People had begun to flee from Greece after the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire, had left a large amount of debt and economic strain for the country. Many farmers began to struggle and declare bankruptcy. Furthermore many of the Grecians had begun to look for new industrialized labor employment, although Greece was slow to adapt to new industrialized way of living (Immigrationtounitedstates.org). The search for this type of employment would lead some of the immigrants to the United States. Eventually larger volumes of Greek people would migrate to the United States during the 1880’s. They would find various amounts of employment within California as railroad gangs, Utah and Colorado as copper and coal miners, as well as primarily in Massachusetts at a textile mill (Immigrationtounitedstates.org). Eventually around the 20th century, they would begin to start their own...
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...This satirical advert by Nandos (A South African fast-food franchise) adopts several widely-accepted cultural and ethnic stereotypes and manipulates them, using their own benighted logic to prove their falseness. The advert expertly weaves in subtle ironic sentiment together with inspired witticism, leaving the underlying message of the advertisement to be interpreted through suggestive innuendos. However, these ostensibly simple euphemisms cannot be easily apprehended without a clear understanding of the social and political scene within South Africa at the time of this advert’s release. The purpose of this thesis will be to dissect and analyze this unique cultural context and provide an understanding of the various ideas, stereotypes and...
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...circa 2005, over 3% of the human population is comprised of immigrants, a term used to describe those who move to a different country for permanent residency. (Wilcox 1) For purposes varying from severe needs to wanderlust, migration levels rise each year all across the globe. Throughout the past century, the notion of immigration has been negatively perceived and become a controversial matter in the eyes of the United States law enforcement. Our country’s oppression against immigration has come to the exceedingly unethical extent where political figures like Presidential Candidate Rep. Tom Tancredo erroneously claim that “our ‘War at Home’ against illegal immigrants is more deadly than the war with Iraq”. (Sampson 2) Such prevalent negative outlooks and claims on immigration have guided a majority of our population to have inaccurate preconceptions of those who migrate into our country, wrongfully influencing our population to correlate immigration levels with higher rates of violence and crime. In this paper, I, with help from writings by authors Shelley Wilcox and Robert J. Sampson, will help disprove the stereotypes our nation puts upon immigrants, and propose ethical methods for our country’s approach on immigration laws. Firstly, the accusation that immigrants are more often affiliated in acts of crime and violence as compared to non-immigrants must be disproved. In fact, recent studies have proved this stereotype to be overwhelmingly false; “as immigration levels increased...
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...How does prejudice happen (171)? Why does prejudice happen (172)? Have you experienced prejudice and/or have you prejudiced against some groups of people? If so, how do you think such prejudice can be stopped? Prejudice is described as an individuals feelings and predispositions towards out-group members in a pejorative or negative direction. Prejudice often happens for a variety of reasons and there are several theories that help to explain why. The first of these is the exploitation theory, which views power as a rare resource, and in order to maintain a higher status or power, one must retrain those of lower status and power to improve their own position/security. The second theory, is the scapegoating theory, where prejudiced people...
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...Bourgois conveys the “individual experience of social structural oppression” of the second and third generation immigrants living in East Harlem (Bourgois 2006: 15). He conducted a participant-observer study of the ethnic groups living in El Barrio primarily focusing on Puerto Ricans. He discusses East Harlem’s cultural history emphasizing the racial tension that still exists today. Bourgois notes the street culture associated with residents in El Barrio, “In this particular case of the United States, the concentration of socially marginalized populations into politically and ecologically isolated inner-city enclaves has fomented an especially explosive cultural creativity that is in defiance of racism and economic marginalization” (Bourgois 2006: 8). By using social psychology to describe racism and marginalization, one can see that psychological theories can be used to explain the racial tension, substance abuse, and frustration with mainstream society of the people who live in El Barrio. Social marginalization prevented many immigrants from engaging in normal activities within the society they live. Prior to the Puerto Rican invasion of El Barrio in the 1930’s and 1940’s, Italians immigrated to America and lived in El Barrio. El Barrio has always been stigmatized, “the streets of East Harlem have always produced violent, substance-abusing felons no matter what immigrant ethnic group happened to be living there at the time” (Bourgois 2006: 55). When the Italians moved in, “competition...
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...In actuality, only 47 percent of immigrants in coming to the United States are Latino (Dixon and Williams). This warped representation on the diversity of immigrants can cause tension between races and at borderlines. It can also influence a republican presidential candidate to call forth a wall to be built at the Mexican-American border. It allows the cultivation of stereotypes to be formed due to the resentment that the reports encourages. For example, the stereotype that Latino immigrants are stealing all the jobs because they work for cheap wages is has been proved false according to a New York Times article. Although immigrants tend to work in unpleasant laborious jobs, they make a $10-$20 dollars an hour pay (Altman). “The guard dog perspective…argues that the media behave like a ‘sentry’ for the power structure within society,” meaning that immigrants will receive incredibly biases coverage because they have the least power (Dixon and...
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...Fighting For The American Dream Is wanting a better life a crime? Doesn’t everyone deserve the opportunity to constantly improve? Wouldn’t it make more sense if people tried to comprehend the choices others make without chastising and belittling them? Immigrants have always wanted to live the American dream; however, not only do they always encounter the reality of their struggles in life, but they are also psychologically and verbally abused. The novel, The Tortilla Curtain by T.C Boyle, demonstrates the abuse, racism, and cultural stereotypes that immigrants are subjected to, as well as, the idea that, no matter how hard an immigrant may try to retain the fantasy of the American Dream, in the end, the reality of North American racism and cultural stereotypes is always present. Tortilla...
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...stereotyping and prejudice. When people stereotype others they assume that a person has certain characteristics and abilities that they believe all members of that group have. Many people use stereotypes to simplify their world and reduce the amount of processing and thinking they have to do when they meet a new person. Stereotyping makes people ignore the differences between others, as well. Then they end up thinking things about people that might not be true and make generalizations. Stereotypes also lead to social categorization, which is one of the reasons for prejudice attitudes. This is because most stereotypes tend to convey a negative impression (Beebe, Beebe & Redmond, 2008). Stereotyping and prejudice happens every day in the United States. One example of stereotyping comes from a story I read about in my Cultural Diversity class. Although African Americans accounted for only 17 percent of the motorists on the New Jersey turnpike during a certain time period, they were 80 percent of the motorists pulled over. These occurrences gave rise to the charge that a new traffic offense was added to the books: DWB, or “driving while Black” (Schaefer, 2012, p. 42). Another example of stereotyping is racial profiling. A federal study made public in 2005 found that African Americans were twice as likely and Latinos were five times more likely to have their vehicles searched than whites. The likelihood of force being used against drivers was three times more likely...
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...trouble for doing certain things. But when it causes a bigger scandal, that’s when you have to realize what you’ve done. In this essay we are going to be bringing up issues of today and as well as in the past and how it is still stirring up controversy and false flags. Talking about the accusations the President said about mexican people being rapist, the accusations of Mccarthyism in the entertainment industry, and the accusations upon each other during the Salem Witch Trials. Each of these topics are juxtaposed because of the link they have with each other and that being was the instant accusations and stereotypes they faced in the hands people that not liked them....
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...“ Asians Are Good At Math. What An Awful Stereotype", Trytten clarifies that even “positive” stereotypes are a bad thing. “Asians are smart”, how is this compliment negative? It may seem like a good thing to be called smart, but then people start to take advantage. They sit next to them during testes, ask to copy, and offer their friendship for answers Calling someone smart may seem innocent at first but it becomes a problem when people start to take advantage. There is such thing as a good stereotype In the scholarly article, "Leadership Orientations Of Russian Working Adults: Do Age, Gender, Education, And Government Work Experience Make A Difference?", Nguyen provides a study of leadership based on human factors. Each factor had a certain amount of strengths but for each strength they also had a weakness. Where one factor failed another one succeeded. The last experiment was to have a variety factors have leadership roles. It was then that they were given the best result. We must work together to have the...
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