Structural Violence has been the main topic of this course “Cooperation and Conflict”. Structural Violence is basically the legal and systematic oppression of a particular group of people, whether it be a race, religion or a sexuality. Structural violence also has a slow violence side effect to it where it can oppress generations at a time. Specifically in America, Structural violence has a stronghold on African Americans in terms of education, law, and finance just to name a few. We are very slowly making progress to combat this structural violence, but one question that we have combatted for hundreds of years is: What is the most effective way to combat Structural Violence? Will it ever be solved? Though the answer to this question is unknown,
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For the most part, this entire country is run by older white men in which whom in their youth were most likely taught hatred towards African Americans. Not always necessarily hatred. However, a vast majority were taught indifference towards their African American counterparts. Therefore, I believe the generational gap plays a big role in the structural violence that we see today. Most of the people who are in charge of major institutions in America have been raised on the fear of African Americans or the hatred. I do not in any way believe that those people are at fault for how they were raised because that was the norm at that particular time, and those values carried over with them to today. Perhaps the people that run the country now are a lost cause, but I do believe that we can work on the future generations by requiring community engagement. By not necessarily forcing community service, but encouraging and pushing all students to actually want to serve the community. Also, we should praise those students who do actively volunteer which would make those who do not see the benefit of it to broaden their horizons. We have to teach the value of every single human life from an early age. That can be achieved by making everyone look at the situation of someone or a group of
For the most part, this entire country is run by older white men in which whom in their youth were most likely taught hatred towards African Americans. Not always necessarily hatred. However, a vast majority were taught indifference towards their African American counterparts. Therefore, I believe the generational gap plays a big role in the structural violence that we see today. Most of the people who are in charge of major institutions in America have been raised on the fear of African Americans or the hatred. I do not in any way believe that those people are at fault for how they were raised because that was the norm at that particular time, and those values carried over with them to today. Perhaps the people that run the country now are a lost cause, but I do believe that we can work on the future generations by requiring community engagement. By not necessarily forcing community service, but encouraging and pushing all students to actually want to serve the community. Also, we should praise those students who do actively volunteer which would make those who do not see the benefit of it to broaden their horizons. We have to teach the value of every single human life from an early age. That can be achieved by making everyone look at the situation of someone or a group of