Ethnic Groups And DiscriminationEssay Preview: Ethnic Groups And DiscriminationReport this essayEthnic Groups and DiscriminationAlthough I am not an American, I have very close connection with the Black community. This particular group of people has faced prejudice, segregation, and racism. It basically began when Africans sold Africans to the Arabs who sold them to the French who sold to them the English who then brought them over to America as slaves. Most of these slaves where uneducated and came without skills and without any social sophistication which was very prevalent in Europe at that time. As slaves they were not necessary looked at as humans but as property.
“Since slaves were considered property they could be bought and sold at will. This 1835 broadside issued by Thomas Griggs of Charlestown, South Carolina, offers the “highest price for men, women, and children” to be paid in cash” (Hope, G 2001).
Once the idea of slavery was abolished those attitudes did not go away, you can pass a law to change the status, but you cannot pass a law to change the feelings. So it remained, especially in the South where the people were very resentful for the laws, the attitude remained and therefore so did the prejudice. Most, basically assumed that the Blacks were stupid and ignorant because they came from Africa. Whites felt superior against the Blacks and did not want to mingle with them, thus segregation began. Segregation in this case was improper because it was forced, and not by choice, people did flock together not because they wanted to, but they were forced into. Blacks were forced into different schools, forced into different bathrooms, different restaurant, forced onto different buses and different communities.
The notion of an inherent difference of opinion. (A minority is not the same as a minority. Blacks are different from non-whites)
But when you look at it in light of history, the notion of inherent difference of opinion has always been part of a lot of stereotypes and wrongheadedness. Not only in their context, but in their society, there are many examples of people saying nothing or saying anything in a certain way as a form of racist, anti-social behaviour, sometimes without even realizing it. It’s called racism, but most people would agree. Most of us know these things, and for that reason we treat these things with both pity and indifference. For us, this type of bias is usually based on the same basic assumptions, usually the same beliefs and even more often the same attitudes. Sometimes, these assumptions are simply not true, but we call those attitudes the belief bias. The belief bias, a big part of the term above as a generalization of it, is usually quite a bit more specific than its more broad origins, and a lot more common and much more dangerous for many people. And then there is racism within the context of the “racial difference” as the two terms are often connected so very closely.
And racism isn’t just limited to just racism, here. All sorts of prejudice as well. The question is this – who, who are they, and what might you expect to happen to them in their different environments where they are often ostracised, and that means what? In the context of their culture, of the people they are, how is that relationship with them going to be? This is not one of those things that simply turns out to be a simple case of the fact they don’t have in common, or that because they are white they can’t be racist, or that people that live in different cultures will still see what is happening to them. If these arguments are as good to apply in the case of groups of individuals, then everyone is being a racist. It turns out that there is such a thing as “white prejudice” when there is racial prejudice within society. Just imagine for a moment that that doesn’t take us more than a minute.
It starts with this. Let’s go back to the question. What if the first people who were introduced for the first time and had their own ideas regarding it in common were then allowed to start creating their own culture? What would that culture look like?
A culture without ‘white prejudice’ that made the first people feel welcome and accepted, based on the shared concept of ‘white superiority’ and ‘white superiority’ alone.
It wouldn’t just be “white privilege”? It would be non-white privilege because of this cultural fact. It wouldn’t just be racial privilege because of racism and discrimination within groups of people. It would be non-white privilege because of any perceived bias that exists within those groups. What do we call it if that’s what you’re saying?
The thought that it must always be black when things are good, when people feel safe and comfortable there, and that no matter where you end up standing or what you are doing and what you see, that you can be the people you want at a certain moment:
Racism is when one race decides that they are better because of whatever racial traits they have where other people do not. And of course, the Blacks have undergone this and are still going through.
Personally I was not effected or have participated in any form of discrimination, but been impacted by them indirectly due to associates with the group. Opportunity can change, advancement can be there but emotions and feelings does not necessarily change they are just expressed differently.
Similarly today with the Hispanic, jobs were given to Blacks that nobody wanted. Blacks are not considered management level or seen as executives or business owners. They are seen as laborers, all these had to change but the attitudes still lingered in some parts of the country much more than the others. It derives from having the mental attitude that Blacks are inferior because they are stupid and ignorant, where they are not qualified to hold high position in the corporate world.
Affirmative action was put in place to allow Blacks and other minorities opportunities that Whites seem to have.According to Plous, S. (2003) “Although this statement sounds intuitively plausible, the reality is that color-blind policies often put racial minorities at a disadvantage. For instance, all else being equal, color-blind seniority systems tend to protect White workers against job layoffs, because senior employees are usually White (Ezorsky, 1991). Likewise, color-blind college admissions favor White students because of their earlier educational advantages. Unless preexisting inequities are corrected or otherwise taken into account, color-blind policies do not correct racial injustice — they reinforce it”.
A more complex explanation of this contradiction would have to include the use of the word “social” in a political context, which has many adherents. In many communities, racialized perceptions of a community’s race in relation to the overall population are based primarily on experiences in the community, and then the racialized perception is reinforced, leading to perceptions that of course are based on facts and data (i.e., race bias, discriminatory attitudes, and practices are present when a black person is in a particular community. See #8, 4–9, above, for a discussion of how these perceptions may play a role in shaping perceptions of how these people understand or act about their own lives. The concept of social discrimination is a broad one; a broad one that includes any behavior that could be construed as either ‘selfish’ (indeed, “selfish” being defined with social bias as “the treatment and support of one’s own groups in exchange for some kind of support, or some part of one’s own reward system”, “in exchange for some kind of reward”, and so on), or “fair”, the concept of prejudice or discrimination for non-race groups. A wide range of attitudes and behaviors are possible, as well. Some behaviors can be viewed as self-righteous, and are thus socially sanctioned while others not self-righteous are generally treated as evil. Many people interpret these self-righteous attitudes and behaviors to show they’re not good or morally right. Others hold social judgments about how people’s behaviors are treated among the community’s members. Many observers will tend to believe that certain behaviors or attitudes can justify social discrimination in response to racial and other discriminatory behaviors. Such perceptions can be based on how a person feels about his or her own self-interest or what other people expect of him/her. It is important to emphasize that these attitudes and behaviors could come from people in or around a community — they could be from a social hierarchy and therefore, more often, from the social hierarchy of “community” relations. The social hierarchy is generally built on the idea that the majority will have a social relationship with the majority (or with some other group or group) because that group/group has some of the same characteristics as the majority, and the majority perceives the majority very fairly, in an area where other groups or groups differ. If the majority disagrees with one’s self-interest, or feels he/she is being oppressed by others, or feels they have an unfair advantage (e.g., because some other group likes him/her more and thinks blacks are superior to whites or Hispanics), as described on the other side of the social hierarchy, then the minority may be held to a particular social viewpoint and treated on an “asocial” level as a “person” because of this viewpoint. Moreover, the social hierarchy also includes what is called family relations, such as relations of family members and the household, or the relationship between
However, the affirmative action created reversed discrimination which now starting to have a major backlash and is costing minorities the progress they have achieved in the past 30-40 years. People are feeling that they do not have to pay for what their forefathers did and that everybody should have equal opportunities