Critical Thinking Essay: Racism, Prejudice, and Discrimination
In the world today, prejudice is taught by socializing in public places. The United States of America has put biases in society that makes people treated unequally. Discrimination will never be eliminated if society does nothing about it. Discrimination will be eliminated over time because the past has proven that it is possible. By learning our differences and logically compromising without hate of race or unequal treatment, discrimination will be defeated as the Japanese internment camps went through overcrowded ruff poor living conditions, and eventually ending the internment camps all together, which established a foundation of equal treatment for all people.
The …show more content…
Major General Henry C. Pratt announced that beginning January 2nd, 1945, the federal government would officially end the exclusion order that prevented Japanese and Japanese-Americans from returning to the West Coast following their release from World War II internment camps (para. 1).
It is proven that all things come to an end and this is proof that the United States had to do something to end the discrimination. Additionally, as time went on the camps had to end because it was unnecessary and the Japanese and the Americans had to live on with this in the …show more content…
The diverse or the more time people spend with people who are very different, the chances are that people will be more comfortable with the type of people or skin color they spend the most time with. For example, if a white person lives in a white family that white person would most likely like white people more than darker tone or black people because of the time they spend together. It seems like a harsh statement, but it is logical to say that because they may not know that basis exists. Moreover, it is terrible to have hidden biases because people or society are one race which is the human race. According to “Project Implicit,” there are “Implicit Association Tests (IAT),” where if someone were to take the “Race” quiz and obtain a result that states “your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for white people over black people,” is a horrible statement because if that person went and took the “Skin Tone” quiz and obtained a result that stated, “your data suggest a slight automatic preference for dark skinned people over light skinned people,” suggests this statement correlates with the other statement in that this person may have hidden biases against people based on their skin. Although, race and skin tone are two different things, it does suggest that a person could be prejudice because skin and race are different.
In the world today, prejudice is taught by socializing in public places. The United States of America has put biases in society that makes people treated unequally. Discrimination will never be eliminated if society does nothing about it. Discrimination will be eliminated over time because the past has proven that it is possible. By learning our differences and logically compromising without hate of race or unequal treatment, discrimination will be defeated as the Japanese internment camps went through overcrowded ruff poor living conditions, and eventually ending the internment camps all together, which established a foundation of equal treatment for all people.
The …show more content…
Major General Henry C. Pratt announced that beginning January 2nd, 1945, the federal government would officially end the exclusion order that prevented Japanese and Japanese-Americans from returning to the West Coast following their release from World War II internment camps (para. 1).
It is proven that all things come to an end and this is proof that the United States had to do something to end the discrimination. Additionally, as time went on the camps had to end because it was unnecessary and the Japanese and the Americans had to live on with this in the …show more content…
The diverse or the more time people spend with people who are very different, the chances are that people will be more comfortable with the type of people or skin color they spend the most time with. For example, if a white person lives in a white family that white person would most likely like white people more than darker tone or black people because of the time they spend together. It seems like a harsh statement, but it is logical to say that because they may not know that basis exists. Moreover, it is terrible to have hidden biases because people or society are one race which is the human race. According to “Project Implicit,” there are “Implicit Association Tests (IAT),” where if someone were to take the “Race” quiz and obtain a result that states “your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for white people over black people,” is a horrible statement because if that person went and took the “Skin Tone” quiz and obtained a result that stated, “your data suggest a slight automatic preference for dark skinned people over light skinned people,” suggests this statement correlates with the other statement in that this person may have hidden biases against people based on their skin. Although, race and skin tone are two different things, it does suggest that a person could be prejudice because skin and race are different.