Examples Of Racial Discrimination

After all human kind has accomplished have we come to that point in mankind that everyone sees everyone else as their equal? Are everyone treated equally in this “modern” world? Human beings have evolved so much but still there are some problems they have not been able to solve. I was thinking about the problems that every nation has and every person might have felt at a point of their life I ended up with discrimination. Discrimination is seen between rich and poor, male and female, people who follow different religion and people who are from different race. The type of discrimination I want to focus upon is racial discrimination. I want to use my own experiences as an example, also show how others have been affected by this and a recent issue …show more content…
I have been working there for over a year now. I would not have a strong point if it had happened to me once or twice but it has happened so many times that I can use it as an example in an essay about discrimination. Once in a month there is a customer that always tries to insult me thinking I don’t speak English. It seems so blunt that the customer is not even trying to deny what he is trying to do. It’s not new to me when I hear them say, “Do you understand English?” or to hear when they say something like, “He probably didn’t get our orders right” as soon as I start to walk back after taking their orders. One time a guy even without even talking to me said that he wanted to see the manager to give the order as he “thought” that I couldn’t understand English. I could not say anything but call the manager to take his orders as we have an iron clad rule called “Customer is always right”. I can definitely say he got spared from a good argument that day as being a waiter I cannot show my rage to the customers. I went inside the kitchen to check on his orders thinking why a country as developed as the United States still has people who think like they are uneducated. I have thought about for a while and I can almost guarantee that this is not a problem only I face and it’s not the only profession that faces this kind of …show more content…
The article tells us about how employers consciously or subconsciously discriminate against the names that sound black or Latino. Racial discrimination is something we are working to get rid of everyday but it feels like it just won’t go away. Even though being called the United States people always seem to be divided over negative things. The article does not states about why this type of thing occurs but I think the answer is out in the open. It can be seen that racism was something major in the events that occurred in the United States and maybe a small part of it got embedded in the new generations consciously or