Eurocentric Prejudice And Racial Discrimination In Today's Society

Over the past decade, discrimination has become a major epidemic in today’s society. Socialization has been recognized as a key issue in creating stereotypes and bias opinions on certain groups. Society tends to steer towards the norms, values, behavior, and social skills of those around them in their community, even if they are discriminatory. Gender and race discrimination in crime have become more and more problematic over the past few years. In current events, it is shown women serve less jail time than men or law enforcement officer’s not following the appropriate protocols when dealing with African Americans. Civilization has fought hard to end these norms of treating women differently from men. The Civil Rights Era that happened hundreds of years ago was supposed to ensure equality in all races and genders. So why does …show more content…
This view has been an ongoing problem that doesn’t seem to vanish. It is known that law enforcement officer’s “target” those who don’t have a European (white) decent. Racial discrimination in sentencing is most prevalent for less serious crimes, also known as liberation hypothesis. For example, crack cocaine is penalized more harshly than powder cocaine. Judges feel less able to follow their belief, with regard to more serious crimes. It is known that if blacks victimize whites, they tend to be subject to harsher penalties rather than if whites victimize blacks. Self-fulfilling prophecy basically means that if you truly believe that a person is bad, even when they might not be, then you’ll treat them in a way that you expect them to be bad. Police officer’s tend to have their own self-fulfilling prophecies that certain races are destructive and malicious and treat them as so, which creates an explicit response that the officer expects. This is how law enforcement officers construct a social phenomenon that discriminates against certain