The Hispanic race consists the 12.5% of the US population. That is to say, my actual story as Hispanic is being born in New Jersey from US naturalized parents and they are Honduran by birth. My family moved back to Honduras, I was raised my whole life there and I moved back to the United States to get my degree. Most people does not know my story, the only thing that they can perceive and infer is that I am Hispanic. Therefore, a series of thoughts, stereotypes, stigma and others comes to their mind. In a poll made to 900 non-Hispanic people in the US by CNN about the perception of the Hispanic population in the US, the result were shocking. Four out of ten people have a negative perception of the Hispanic and immigrants in the social context.
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In addition, the media plays a big role on the perception on races. For example, how the comedian Louis C.K wants to teach people through how white people are advantaged despite of the historical era .Where in history we can observe this behavior. From the year, 1300 to 1600 in Spain was created a stratified colonial society. A stratified society were the prejudice was upon the people that had two parents from different races calling them breeds or cruces. In this society, the “pure ones” were dominant among the mixed race and had different laws, giving those advantages and supremacy upon the mixed race. Who are the people that will prevail? Luckily, most of this prejudice and stereotypes comes from people of the past generations, since most of this problem comes from adults to elderly range. In SCF I have asked, if discrimination is common or happens occasionally? And the answers that I got makes conclude that discrimination among young people is not that common. If there were we have to use our sociological imagination on staying open-minded and with a non-prejudiced treatment of others of different races by finding common ground among them and the similarities that unites us and excluding the differences that precludes a peacefully co-exist. We have to make humor
In addition, the media plays a big role on the perception on races. For example, how the comedian Louis C.K wants to teach people through how white people are advantaged despite of the historical era .Where in history we can observe this behavior. From the year, 1300 to 1600 in Spain was created a stratified colonial society. A stratified society were the prejudice was upon the people that had two parents from different races calling them breeds or cruces. In this society, the “pure ones” were dominant among the mixed race and had different laws, giving those advantages and supremacy upon the mixed race. Who are the people that will prevail? Luckily, most of this prejudice and stereotypes comes from people of the past generations, since most of this problem comes from adults to elderly range. In SCF I have asked, if discrimination is common or happens occasionally? And the answers that I got makes conclude that discrimination among young people is not that common. If there were we have to use our sociological imagination on staying open-minded and with a non-prejudiced treatment of others of different races by finding common ground among them and the similarities that unites us and excluding the differences that precludes a peacefully co-exist. We have to make humor