Essay On Marginalization

For the longest time, America has been far from equality. While in the present there are far more rights for many minority groups than in the past, there is still a lot of oppression and unrest between people of many different upbringings. Throughout time, there have always been some kinds of groups that people looked down upon and which leads to a type of separation of classes. There is always some kind of group in society that feels that because of how much money they have or the type of lifestyle they live gives them the right to think that they are above others therefore putting the ones that they look down upon in positions where they have little to no power. Oppression towards has gotten more and more noticed as time continues to pass

This paper will be the discussion of the marginalization that the people in the United States of America have gone through and in the future in the past, as well as Young’s outlook on the issue. Marginalization is essentially keeping people who have little to no power in their society in that position so that they will not have to ability to affect any important

She sees marginalization as “perhaps the most dangerous form of oppression” because it has the ability to have a wide range of people removed from having the feeling that they are useful in social life (Cahn 593). There are such large groups being treated unfairly within our society mostly because they are unable to provide for themselves are then in need of support. Then they are looked down upon by doing so because they are relying on someone else’s help which in turn makes society look down on them even more so. As Young says, “Dependency thus implies in this society…a sufficient condition to suspend rights to privacy, respect, and individual choice” (Cahn 594). These people that must depend on others, including the government, for so much that they cannot afford for themselves due to their circumstances are now having basic rights taken away from them because they are unable to make do on their own. The situations in which people must depend on welfare are usually own of their own control, whether it be from old age, a physical or mental disability, or simply not having the finances to make a decent living. Young further illustrates this point by saying, “Being a dependent in this society implies being legitimately subject to often arbitrary and invasive authority of social service providers and other public and private bureaucrats, who enforce rules with which the marginal must