Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary
Moral Reasoning
Moral Reasoning can be defined as being the process in which an individual tries to determine the difference between what is right and what is wrong on a personal situation by using logic. This is an important and often daily process that people use in an attempt to do the right thing. Every day for instance, people are faced with the dilemma of whether or not to lie in a given situation. People make this decision by reasoning the morality of the action and weighing that against its consequences. Although all moral choice can be seen as personal choice, some choices can be seen as an economic choice, or an ethical choice described by some ethical code or regulated by ethical relationships …show more content…
Ethnocentric individuals judge other groups relative to their own ethnic group or culture, especially with concern for language, behavior, customs, and religion. These ethnic distinctions and subdivisions serve to define each ethnicity’s unique cultural identity. Ethnocentrism may be overt or subtle, and while it is considered a natural proclivity of human psychology, it has developed a generally negative connotation. People born into a particular culture that grow up absorbing the values and behaviors of the culture will develop a worldview that considers their culture to be the norm. If people then experience other cultures that have different values and normal behavior, they will find that the thought patterns appropriate to their birth culture and the meanings their birth culture attaches to behaviors are not appropriate for the new cultures. However, since people are accustomed to their birth culture, it can be difficult for them to see the behavior of people from a different culture from the viewpoint of that culture rather than from their own. According to the singing group in the film immigrants from Latin America are not only treated like outsiders (Wetbacks) in North America but also in their relative countries Mexico and Guatemala even though they are of the same ethnicity and speak a similar language. They are jailed, robbed, and even killed because they are treated …show more content…
This approach looks at society through a macro-level orientation, which is a broad focus on the social structures that shape society as a whole, and believes that society has evolved like organisms. This approach looks at both social structure and social functions. Functional analysis addresses society as a whole in terms of the function of its constituent elements; namely norms, customs, traditions, and institutions. In the most basic terms, it simply emphasizes “the effort to impute, as rigorously as possible, to each feature, custom, or practice, its effect on the functioning of a supposedly stable, cohesive system”. Immigrants migrant to North American as a sign that employment, agriculture, and education in Mexico are dysfunctional. These dysfunctionalities cause people of Latin America to make the sacrifice of defecting from their home even if it meant leaving behind their family or children. Though these challenges continue also exist in North America for immigrants they are not as problematic as in Latin America. The Migrant safe houses were built to assist immigrants traveling from Mexico to North America. In 2002, a total of 9,876 immigrants stayed at the shelter. The following year, the number increased to 11,349. This could amount to the number of immigrants in need in Latin America. A group of 20 to 40
Moral Reasoning
Moral Reasoning can be defined as being the process in which an individual tries to determine the difference between what is right and what is wrong on a personal situation by using logic. This is an important and often daily process that people use in an attempt to do the right thing. Every day for instance, people are faced with the dilemma of whether or not to lie in a given situation. People make this decision by reasoning the morality of the action and weighing that against its consequences. Although all moral choice can be seen as personal choice, some choices can be seen as an economic choice, or an ethical choice described by some ethical code or regulated by ethical relationships …show more content…
Ethnocentric individuals judge other groups relative to their own ethnic group or culture, especially with concern for language, behavior, customs, and religion. These ethnic distinctions and subdivisions serve to define each ethnicity’s unique cultural identity. Ethnocentrism may be overt or subtle, and while it is considered a natural proclivity of human psychology, it has developed a generally negative connotation. People born into a particular culture that grow up absorbing the values and behaviors of the culture will develop a worldview that considers their culture to be the norm. If people then experience other cultures that have different values and normal behavior, they will find that the thought patterns appropriate to their birth culture and the meanings their birth culture attaches to behaviors are not appropriate for the new cultures. However, since people are accustomed to their birth culture, it can be difficult for them to see the behavior of people from a different culture from the viewpoint of that culture rather than from their own. According to the singing group in the film immigrants from Latin America are not only treated like outsiders (Wetbacks) in North America but also in their relative countries Mexico and Guatemala even though they are of the same ethnicity and speak a similar language. They are jailed, robbed, and even killed because they are treated …show more content…
This approach looks at society through a macro-level orientation, which is a broad focus on the social structures that shape society as a whole, and believes that society has evolved like organisms. This approach looks at both social structure and social functions. Functional analysis addresses society as a whole in terms of the function of its constituent elements; namely norms, customs, traditions, and institutions. In the most basic terms, it simply emphasizes “the effort to impute, as rigorously as possible, to each feature, custom, or practice, its effect on the functioning of a supposedly stable, cohesive system”. Immigrants migrant to North American as a sign that employment, agriculture, and education in Mexico are dysfunctional. These dysfunctionalities cause people of Latin America to make the sacrifice of defecting from their home even if it meant leaving behind their family or children. Though these challenges continue also exist in North America for immigrants they are not as problematic as in Latin America. The Migrant safe houses were built to assist immigrants traveling from Mexico to North America. In 2002, a total of 9,876 immigrants stayed at the shelter. The following year, the number increased to 11,349. This could amount to the number of immigrants in need in Latin America. A group of 20 to 40