Racial Profiling In Latin America

Americans overreact in these situations, refusing to acknowledge the violent history that has followed the community for past, present, and future times. A white person will never be able to fully understand what it is like to experience the effects of racial profiling. That is partially why they don’t understand how come black people always bring up the struggles that they face in America.
Affirmative action bans helped schools meet their diversity quota, and minorities got an equal opportunity for them to get the schooling that they needed, and deserved. When affirmative action bans were set in place more minorities got accepted into the colleges of their choice. There more minorities earned degrees, and were able to start their careers …show more content…
Places all over the globe suffer from a form of racial profiling at one point and time. Compared to many places racial profiling is a lot worse than it is here, and that is mainly because a lot of places typically live in countries that have not established a point of reform. In Latin America for instance there is a lot of racism as well as discrimination towards women and minorities. in Ecuador they stereotype everyone, but they also indulge in blaming crime and bad events that occur on African Americans. The incident that involves an afro – Latino could easily be done by another ethnicity within its borders, but everyone gives their baggage to the ones who cannot possibly defend …show more content…
In television shows black people always play a criminal, someone loud and rombonxious, or any other character that reflects poorly on them. The Asian americans are always in a family setting where their parents only care about text book grades, and Latin americans are always loud and feisty. The white people in tv shows always play a role that will eventually reflect some good on their character, and they will come out being on the top majority of the time. This may not seem like a problem, but these type casting roles do not showcase all aspects of their cultures. There are black people who are not loud and criminalistic. There are some white, Latino, or even Asian people who could fit under the description of those.
Unfortunately, people take what they see on television and mistake it for gold, so they run with it. People from different countries subliminally becomes a perpetrator of racial profiling. Globally people from different countries will make assumptions about your character, and think that calling a person a derogatory name is okay when it is not. Maybe they will even attempt to act like the character that is portrayed in the movies or tv shows not meaning to offend you, and when you tell them why you have to explain the negative and bad reasons why it is not