Victimized By Race or Discrimination
Discrimination is an act that refuses social members of the human right to the groups of people grounded on prejudgment. This includes behaviors of an individual or group centered on their actual or apparent membership in a certain group or social category. This transpires in a way that is worse than the way people are usually regarded. Discrimination involves treating people in an undesirable way due to a giving personality. I would be comparing my personal experience of discrimination to the ones I read in some articles. Through me been victimized by discrimination at my first work place and also at the school soccer team, I would be able to relate to me being a victim of discrimination to the people …show more content…
I have never encountered discrimination in my life until when I went in search for a job. It was my school cafeteria in Troy University Alabama. We were about five people who filled out an application, and was called for an interview. After the interview the other four people started working as soon as the next day and I was not called. I went to see the manager to know why I was hired. She kept telling me that I have to see her the next day, the next week and that she is busy. Though I noticed something was not right, but I never related to discrimination because I have never been victimized before. Every day I came by her office and got the same story until I meet the owner of the company and he hired me on the spot. Few days later I got to know that my manager does not like Africans and that was the reason she did not want to hire me. I felt humiliated and depressed and wondered why someone won’t hire me because of where I came from Africa. The job became tough for me because she was always on my neck. With time I was able to get a new job. I came across an article on job discrimination and immediately related it to my past experience. “Direct discrimination often happens because people make unfair assumptions about people with certain personality characteristics can and cannot do” (page 2). I believe that manager directly discriminated me because …show more content…
Soccer is one game that I love with passion. Joining the soccer team was an avenue for me to be involved with the school activities and also enjoy what I love to do that is playing soccer. I never disclosed my place of origin to anyone when I joined the school practice team for screening. It was fun because all players love my style of play. It was like I have already made the school team even before the school team came out. Until someday the head coach asked me “Where are you from” and I told him Nigeria. From that moment I noticed something different. The coach stopped paying attention to me. Like I was some kind of invisible. I felt neglected. I then noticed something strange that their no origin of Nigeria that was in the school tea. I tried to figure out from my fellow Nigerian friends why they were not in the school team and the answer was “we don’t know”. Two weeks later the roster came out and my name was not included. I came across this article about a girl named Maxine, who was not allowed to play for her school team because of her sexual orientation. “At her second game with the team, Maxine’s girlfriend came along to cheer her on. Afterwards the team captain tells maxima that she doesn’t want a lesbian on the team as it might upset some the other members” (page 2). Until the team found out the she was a lesbian the act of discrimination kicked in. I see this
Discrimination is an act that refuses social members of the human right to the groups of people grounded on prejudgment. This includes behaviors of an individual or group centered on their actual or apparent membership in a certain group or social category. This transpires in a way that is worse than the way people are usually regarded. Discrimination involves treating people in an undesirable way due to a giving personality. I would be comparing my personal experience of discrimination to the ones I read in some articles. Through me been victimized by discrimination at my first work place and also at the school soccer team, I would be able to relate to me being a victim of discrimination to the people …show more content…
I have never encountered discrimination in my life until when I went in search for a job. It was my school cafeteria in Troy University Alabama. We were about five people who filled out an application, and was called for an interview. After the interview the other four people started working as soon as the next day and I was not called. I went to see the manager to know why I was hired. She kept telling me that I have to see her the next day, the next week and that she is busy. Though I noticed something was not right, but I never related to discrimination because I have never been victimized before. Every day I came by her office and got the same story until I meet the owner of the company and he hired me on the spot. Few days later I got to know that my manager does not like Africans and that was the reason she did not want to hire me. I felt humiliated and depressed and wondered why someone won’t hire me because of where I came from Africa. The job became tough for me because she was always on my neck. With time I was able to get a new job. I came across an article on job discrimination and immediately related it to my past experience. “Direct discrimination often happens because people make unfair assumptions about people with certain personality characteristics can and cannot do” (page 2). I believe that manager directly discriminated me because …show more content…
Soccer is one game that I love with passion. Joining the soccer team was an avenue for me to be involved with the school activities and also enjoy what I love to do that is playing soccer. I never disclosed my place of origin to anyone when I joined the school practice team for screening. It was fun because all players love my style of play. It was like I have already made the school team even before the school team came out. Until someday the head coach asked me “Where are you from” and I told him Nigeria. From that moment I noticed something different. The coach stopped paying attention to me. Like I was some kind of invisible. I felt neglected. I then noticed something strange that their no origin of Nigeria that was in the school tea. I tried to figure out from my fellow Nigerian friends why they were not in the school team and the answer was “we don’t know”. Two weeks later the roster came out and my name was not included. I came across this article about a girl named Maxine, who was not allowed to play for her school team because of her sexual orientation. “At her second game with the team, Maxine’s girlfriend came along to cheer her on. Afterwards the team captain tells maxima that she doesn’t want a lesbian on the team as it might upset some the other members” (page 2). Until the team found out the she was a lesbian the act of discrimination kicked in. I see this