Language, Culture, and Gender have been a huge controversy that separates human kind. People grow up in different communities which reflect their behaviors and background. Some people stand out and are invisible because they do not fit in. In other cases, people are mistreated and being abused because of their social status. There needs to be changes that can bring our nation together and accept each other for who we are. Why we are still divided as a nation is because we cannot accept that we were all born and created equally. Society is cruel.
The separation of social status has been a conflict for many years now. In the past, we dealt with different groups of races being more superior to the other. Nowadays, we have an issue with gender; specifically gays and men being more superior to women. It is peculiar that we exclude different people from our community. It specifically states in our Constitution that man is created equal. If that is the law, why do we still belittle people that do not fit in? Being different is normal and everyone needs to accept that fact.
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"Events in the nineteenth century made it abundantly and irrefutably clear that race as a concept sui generis superseded social class as the dominant mechanism of social division and stratification in North America." (Smedley 219) For many decades people have been using race as a way to classify humans into different social categories. Lower, Middle, and Upper classes were created to divide humans into appropriate categories using their individual lifestyles, financial income, residence, and occupation. People decided to ignore this classifying system and classify one another, simply by the color of their skin. People's skin color says nothing as to what a person does, their beliefs, attitudes, or any of the ideas for creating a fair social classification system. Racial barriers were created that divided people into different groups at work and at home. Race differences in identity and social position were, and are, more important than class differences in American society.
Ethnicity has long been a cultural separator and gap closer for many generations. From the civil rights and black movements of the past and currently today, to the American Indians reservations and concentration camps of Japanese Americans during World War II. The American people and government are consistently fighting back and forth to try and right some sort of wrong that each party is consistently doing. George M. Fredrickson’s essay, Models of American Relations: A Historical Perspective (Fredrickson), talks about and explains how ethnic groups have been defining themselves for years or how the governments that they live under have been defining them as well. Ethnic groups have been defined and re-defined many different times throughout
An individual upbringing and cultural teachings make a person, and how they react to others. Unfortunately some people cannot make it past the ethnicity and sometimes tensions can be detected between their tradition and being American. As citizens in the United States all man and women ought to go further than ethnicity and see every person as an American. This is something that needs to be taught from childhood on. It is a shame that it is now 2010 and prejudice is very much alive in the United States. Maybe someday the citizens in America will be able to move past the cultural and ethnic differences and see each other as equals. Then America will be a nation to be revered as a country that can overcome anything. All it takes is a little faith and kindness and understanding that everyone matters.
Inequality and prejudice has been around for as long as the country has been founded. Beginning as a social construct, arbitrary differences, be it sexual orientation, age, and or handicapped status, have been pointed out and discriminated against. Many advocate for stricter guidelines to be placed on new laws that might seem offense and or discriminatory. This is referred to as Strict Scrutiny and it is deemed as a necessity by some in order to remain a progressive society. This means that before a law can be made it must undergo carefully inspection by the Supreme Court. (180-181) I believe that this argument does have merit and should be the standard for these types of laws, as well as in general.
Those kinds of people are everywhere in the world and with the same habits. This topic matters because we need to fix this ourselves. This problem needs to be fixed because our disunity will destroy with nation. If this is not fixed, there will be an increase in crimes. People will fight and argue on little things with each other and violence will take place. The Government should unite those people and teach them lessons for unity. In this society we have to live by taking others opinion and advice. There ae also people who came from different regions with different point of views and opinions. They should talk with each other in a neighborhood and make themselves comfortable. That is how they can change their way of thinking. They also have to create the positive environment for those people who are stuck with their mentality. When those people will come to that environment, they will feel better and change themselves. It is a psychological fact that human needs more positive things to remain positive in a life. It is important to agree on one opinion because without this we are not a complete nation and it will separate us from the whole world. If we do not do this, we will be no longer be a strong nation. And the next generation will be ruin by us because we do not agree with each
...ome communities are the results of partial treatment to one another. Prejudgment of another person based on their a non-conformist attitude such as a different choice in clothes, or peer group, or something as fixed as race, disability, age or gender caused very tragic displays of unnecessary violence such as the calamitous shootings at Columbine High School by two students, and the shootings just today about the children in Oklahoma or the senseless dragging of a man behind a truck in Texas. As more and more made for TV movies are produced to portray these acts of violence due to a forged sense of superiority or inferiority to one another, we as a culture really need to ask ourselves... Are we really equal? In desiring for equality by two of or greatest orators, if we are not, we need to employ every method necessary for us to be that way, a truly equal America.
The United States Constitution states the “all men are created equal.” This is false statement and has been a false statement since the US declared independence. If you are not white or do not fit into the social class of being white you are not given the same equal opportunities. The US has a long history of discrimination against the minority groups of the country and the people believing that it’s the Government’s job to fix it. Some things are out of the Government’s control but some things are strictly made and allowed by the Government of the US. Hypersegregation, hypercriminilazation, and the racial attitudes clarify the racial disadvantages that minorities face in the US. These three go hand in hand and to understand the domestic racial
Have you ever wondered during all the years in different classrooms, schools, and any other learning process we as students have had to go through, what is one key factor that lead us to the understanding of human similarities and actual differences no matter the race, gender, or the simplicity of color? While, there are many people, each with their own views and experiences with all people in their lives and how they act with themselves, friends, loved ones, and newly meet strangers. How is it that mass hysteria based on fears about minority groups, and egocentric individuals’ perceptions of other people's races and ethnicities, spread through the majority of humanity beginning with the 17th Century? This has included all main lands, and some
When Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” was first published in The New Yorker in 1948, it struck a nerve with readers. “The story was incendiary; readers acted as if a bomb had blown up in their faces . . . Shirley struck a nerve in mid-twentieth-century America . . . She had told people a painful truth about themselves” (Oppenheimer 129). Interestingly, the story strikes that same nerve with readers today. When my English class recently viewed the video, those students who had not previously read the story reacted quite strongly to the ending. I recall this same reaction when I was in high school. Our English teacher chose to show the video before any student had read the story. Almost every student in the class reacted with horror at the ending. Why do people react so strongly when they read the story or see the video? What is it about “The Lottery” that is so disturbing? To understand, one must examine the very nature of humankind.
Political and civic sections of society are built to methodically put people who are already lower in terms of social stance will remain at this level because of classism and racism prominence in the united states. A rascist society is classist becuase racial divison contributes to class seperation.At the same time a classit society creats
In many cultures finding your identity is hard. It is even harder to not be labeled for what you look like in society. Currently, people have changed the way that they judge each other and are judging everyone based on the idea of their ethnicity. As I grew up, who I was as a person did not matter because everyone did not bully me based on the color of my skin. I assumed I was just like everyone else. Although when I became a teen things changed. After 9/11, my race and ethnicity mattered more and people treated me differently because I was labeled as a Muslim.
America is a place where many cultures and races co-exist, so there are many different opinions and beliefs. Of course there is bound to be tension and misunderstandings, which unfortunately escalates (in some cases) into violence that we hear about in the media. So what is the solution? Should we all assimilate to one standard or should we recognize our individual cultures and consider ourselves multicultural? The answer is not an easy one to define. America is made up of the gray area between these two opposing views.
Humans have established their own rights in society for many, many years now. However, because some humans differ from the norms that are built in society, they are shunned and denied their rights until they conform to society’s norms. There has been numerous groups of people who have been denied their rights in America. African Americans, immigrants, Native Americans, and gays have been isolated simply because that is the way that they were born into this world and others do not find them “normal”. There is another group that has also been mistreated though; people who identify themselves as transgendered. A good portion of society is unknowingly misinformed about these kinds of people.
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
Our world is constantly changing and it requires a society that is well versed in understanding the problems deriving from culture differences and tolerance of one another’s beliefs and perceptions. We are dealing with systemic problems in education, economic, government, religion and culture differences.