Racial labeling is and has been a negative part of society as a whole that has grounds to improve on. In this story, Appiah talks about these different words that are being explained by him but also different people that have experienced these things in life and what they think about them. Something that stands out is racial label. Appiah uses it and says that “if we follow the badge of color from ‘African’ to ‘Negro’ to ‘colored race’ to ‘black’ to ‘African American’ we are thus tracing the history not only of a signifier, a label, but also a history of its effects” (Appiah 43). In other words, people are using labels to define people in who they should be and what they should be. As a person, everyone should stop labeling people to what race
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As said by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, “about five percent of the Japanese population, or some six million persons, are minorities who suffer much the same fate that ethnic and other minorities do in America and Europe (De Vos, Wetherall, and Stearman, pg 64). All over the country labels were being put into place, whether someone lived in one spot their whole life; plans change, people move and society changes. In this case, Japan was becoming famous and everyone wanted to live there so tons of people fled to the new job openings and life changes. Over time the people who lived in Japan had to go elsewhere and they were being labeled because they had their original way of life and how they did things. Even though that these are just few of the things that are being mentioned and that some people both have their own way on how they think about this and their good and bad opinions, the fact that this still goes on and sometimes whether it is cognitive or not it still is not a good thing. Racial labeling people to a group that may or not be to them isn’t a good thing, just because someone is a color doesn’t make them African, they could be Hattian. Just because your white doesn’t mean you are from …show more content…
Looking back in the last center racial label has changed for the better even though it still has a long way to go. With the awareness that the general public has on this issue it may never completely disappear but our acceptance of others can
As said by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, “about five percent of the Japanese population, or some six million persons, are minorities who suffer much the same fate that ethnic and other minorities do in America and Europe (De Vos, Wetherall, and Stearman, pg 64). All over the country labels were being put into place, whether someone lived in one spot their whole life; plans change, people move and society changes. In this case, Japan was becoming famous and everyone wanted to live there so tons of people fled to the new job openings and life changes. Over time the people who lived in Japan had to go elsewhere and they were being labeled because they had their original way of life and how they did things. Even though that these are just few of the things that are being mentioned and that some people both have their own way on how they think about this and their good and bad opinions, the fact that this still goes on and sometimes whether it is cognitive or not it still is not a good thing. Racial labeling people to a group that may or not be to them isn’t a good thing, just because someone is a color doesn’t make them African, they could be Hattian. Just because your white doesn’t mean you are from …show more content…
Looking back in the last center racial label has changed for the better even though it still has a long way to go. With the awareness that the general public has on this issue it may never completely disappear but our acceptance of others can