Overcoming Oppression In Society

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Oppression happens all around us, It is in our neighborhoods our cities and the whole wide world. Oppression is the “systematic, institutionalized and socially condoned mistreatment of a group of people in society by another group, or by people acting on behalf of the society as a whole”. Everyone has some sort of tie in oppression,either from experience or seeing it. Oppression has always existed but it has grown even more widely due to our newly found president. In my life i've experienced multiple ways of being oppressed being a big brown man. In my essay I will be sharing my story of being oppressed by the systematic way people see me as a criminal just because the way I look and dress. I've had many challenges growing up and to this …show more content…

We are perceived based on the color of our skin and how the mass media sees us. I have not only been oppressed growing up but I am being even more oppressed today because the color of my skin. There's no escaping the media, Change happens with society as a whole itself. In order to stop oppression of others and creating a cycle that's never ending of labeling and stereotyping minorities. One realistic way to get rid of labeling and stereotyping is to teach kids about the Labeling theory is the theory of how the self-identity and behavior of individuals may be determined or influenced by the terms used to describe or classify someone. By teaching this theory or having a class about racial stereotypes or labeling could help not oppress growing young mexican americans or latinos to be stuck in a cycle that has nothing to do with how they are but based on the color of there skin. By doing this and having it mandatory in classes from middle school and up or a mandatory seminar. It will open up the minds of youth to not oppress or put one another down based on the mass media. I hope in the future this decreases because I never want to wish upon anyone having anxiety about police as I

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