The Pros And Cons Of Discrimination In Canada

Discrimination on the basis of sexuality, gender, and homosexuality has been an ongoing controversial issue for many decades. The debate regarding white privilege that results in social prejudice has been touched upon numerous times especially in cases in the criminal justice system, however, this continuous problem has not yet been solved as minority groups are still being treated as an outcast. The major cause of segregation is a privilege attained by a specific group of individuals usually of similar attributes, leading to the epidemic social prejudice towards the less dominant and powerful groups of people. There are general examples in a white supremacist culture, that Caucasians are privileged, regardless of their thoughts surrounding

For many decades, Aboriginals have been persecuted by the Canadian culture and Western society, where they have for many years been living in reserves with no advantages, facing racism on a daily basis thus resulting in the oppression of this minority group. “Race has become an important signifier in the proverbial characterization of violent crime, to the point where police make the assumption that an Aboriginal male running down the street is likely culprit in a recent robbery.” (Comack, 2004. p. 41) Though Canada is known for its human rights and equality, this exemplifies the lack of equality there actually is in Canada, the unjust treatment Aboriginals have to face constantly from the time when attempts were made to strip their traditions and culture to turn them Christian and be “white” to now where they are criminalized only based on what their race is. Likewise, as Aboriginal’s are classified at the bottom of the racial hierarchy, so are African Canadians. Black racism in Canada has resulted in an extensive amount of hate crime and injustice amongst them. “Canadians end to equate crime with race, and especially with black Canadians. Images of the ‘predatory other’ are reinforced by media representations of crime, whereby reference is commonly made to the ‘black suspect but rarely to the ‘white suspect’.” (Perry, 2011. p. 76) This describes how black individuals are feared more than white people as their predator. A main cause for this is how media portrays racism and which race they often link murders, sexual assaults, shootings and every other heinous crimes to black individuals. Majority of the time, crimes committed by white individuals are rarely or never heard about even if they are