Essay On Minority Communities

Minority communities in the USA are numerous. Of particular note are the LGBT+ community and racial minority communities. Although it's nearly oxymoronic, they're the most plentiful of these types of groups. There is certainly more than a little overlap between the two groups, especially in regards to interactions with other people. Like attracts like, and people want nothing more than to feel safe and as if they belong. This, in conjunction to the purposeful isolation of these groups by non-majority leads, to concentrated groups, like racially divided areas of large cities or gayborhoods (the neighborhoods in which LGBT+ people congregate.) Even though all these people have grouped together based on their common traits, they find a way to exclude even within themselves. In the LGBT+ communities, there is a large problem with acceptance of identity, most noticeably bisexuals, gender-fluid people, trans-gender people, and asexuality. In these communities there seems to be a hierarchy to decide how much anyone belong. Bisexuals in heterosexual relationships are shunned, assumed to be straight, or not gay enough to belong. Transsexual and …show more content…
The historical background of racial minority communities is steeped in discrimination and purposeful exclusion, while LGBT+ groups combined to have a place where they fit in. Since the beginning of The United States, racial division and racism have been a major problem. One significant example of this would be “white flight,” in which the white majorities left the cities in favor of the suburbs to escape the racial minority influx during the industrial revolution. With increasing capacity to travel, the wealthier class was able to spread out further in order to separate themselves from racial minorities, who were stuck in the city, near their jobs. This lead to a domino effect as the European races took the high-paying jobs and better education with them to