Research Paper On Racial Discrimination

Racial discrimination is the prejudicial or abusive behavior towards members of another race (WordNet). Today in America minority groups such as: Black Americans, Asians and Latinos are faced with racial discrimination everyday. It affects employment, educational opportunities and the criminal justice system. A study in the National Bureau of Economic Research (2004) has shown that it is less likely for a person with a "Black" sounding name to get a job callback. So A person with the name Laura or Richard will have a higher chance of getting a callback for a job opportunity than someone named Tyron or La 'Dasha. Though the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act forbids employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex religion and national …show more content…
It only took two days for the guards and prisoners to become their roles. The guards became verbally and emotionally aggressive towards the prisoner, And the prisoners began to riot and misbehave. In a short documentary that was shown to me, the guard that was given the nickname John Wayne stated that he acted they way he did because of what he had seen in movies but it was not who he was a person (the Stanford Prison Experiment). They began Role playing refers to the changing of one 's behavior to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role(Topics in Psychology). The majority have taken on this role of dominance “the guards” over the minority “the prisoners”, But can we really blame them? Thanks to the role of group influence, many of the majority only act a certain way because of what they see and what they were taught. A child learns from its family and it’s surroundings, they mimic the things that they were exposed to not knowing the consequence. And just like in the Stanford Prison Experiment, those who feel oppressed start to challenge authority. For example; there are now movement, such as Black Lives Matter which is pushing to end police brutality and the LGBT movement that is pushing for acceptance and equal …show more content…
We repeat what we learn, we repeat what we see. This puts true meaning behind monkey see, monkey do. Adolescence tend to copy the things they see on television and the they things they observe from parents. In every cartoon when something goes wrong there has to be someone to blame it on(antagonist) and someone to fix it( protagonist) and that is what we learn. Same thing goes with prejudice, when something goes wrong we need someone to blame it on. After 9/11 innocent Arab-Americans were targeted because they were characterised as Muslims(Nakajima, 2013). This tragic event also lead to the prejudice against American Muslims leaving a permanent impression on their sense of identity(Abu-Ras, Senzai & Laird, 2013). Another example is after the attack on pearl harbor, Japanese-Americans were put into internment camps. Americans feared that they had remained loyal to their people and where spies for them. In these example you can also see cognitive root of prejudice. These different races were categorized together into one group based on stereotypes and then were all labeled as terrorist (Scales, 2016). Another factor of this would be social inequality. Certain groups have more power, money and status than others (Scales,2016). The majority will always have high status then the minorities, that is just something that we cannot change. When people stereotype it not only makes them feel better about themselves but it