Racial Privilege and Stereotype
Racial Stereotyping and Privilege has been a big cause throughout the history of the world, whether it be the discrimination that took place within a political force or just dating back to 1942 with the Europeans coming over and taking land from the Native Americans. There has always been some form of a racial group using the given “privilege” that they have in order to dominate a less powerful group. In today’s society, many people are judged based on the color of their skin and bringing this matter to attention is something worth investing in, which is why this topic was chosen because throughout our history as a nation and even as a world there has always been a form of “Racial Privilege and Stereotyping” …show more content…
Racial Stereotyping happens around us more then you know and more than you think it may happen, for instance in the article “Racial Stereotyping in the all-white primary school” by Paula Norcross, she describes how many of the British children answered when asked if they think that the African people should be allowed to come over to Britain in order to escape death, one of the young British lads answered in the following “That’s silly if they come over here, they’ll start eating all of our food and they’ll start taking over our homes and things”(paragraphs ten-eleven). This small act of injustice by the young lad institutes on how many of the racial stereotypes that are out there and just how quickly they spread and how easy of an influence they can possess on our people of all nations. The matter of racial stereotyping within our world has taken to a much larger epidemic and it will be us as a nation that will have to solve it starting with our youth and correcting all of the racial stereotypes that they hear and may linger on to because even if we attempt to try and rid the world of some of the racial stereotypes that are out there it will not help if our youth still hold on to these misrepresentations of all the different
Racial Stereotyping and Privilege has been a big cause throughout the history of the world, whether it be the discrimination that took place within a political force or just dating back to 1942 with the Europeans coming over and taking land from the Native Americans. There has always been some form of a racial group using the given “privilege” that they have in order to dominate a less powerful group. In today’s society, many people are judged based on the color of their skin and bringing this matter to attention is something worth investing in, which is why this topic was chosen because throughout our history as a nation and even as a world there has always been a form of “Racial Privilege and Stereotyping” …show more content…
Racial Stereotyping happens around us more then you know and more than you think it may happen, for instance in the article “Racial Stereotyping in the all-white primary school” by Paula Norcross, she describes how many of the British children answered when asked if they think that the African people should be allowed to come over to Britain in order to escape death, one of the young British lads answered in the following “That’s silly if they come over here, they’ll start eating all of our food and they’ll start taking over our homes and things”(paragraphs ten-eleven). This small act of injustice by the young lad institutes on how many of the racial stereotypes that are out there and just how quickly they spread and how easy of an influence they can possess on our people of all nations. The matter of racial stereotyping within our world has taken to a much larger epidemic and it will be us as a nation that will have to solve it starting with our youth and correcting all of the racial stereotypes that they hear and may linger on to because even if we attempt to try and rid the world of some of the racial stereotypes that are out there it will not help if our youth still hold on to these misrepresentations of all the different