Caucasian race

Media’s Lack of Diversity: The media, at its heart, lacks diversity in ownership, representation, and coverage. To begin with, racial minorities own and report in a disproportionate amount of the media in comparison to racial majorities, like caucasians. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), African-Americans owned 0.33% of all television stations and 1.6% of all radio stations when the population was comprised of 13% African Americans. On top of this, in newsrooms…

coated with a pitch black darkness which shatters people’s reputation. Labels are put on people because of the arrogant stereotypes revolving around us. Labeling (Stereotyping) is the occurrence of discrimination and slur language based on occupation, race, the level of income, the particular academic background, diction, and even appearance. However to this stereotyping, the interpretation of a person can be found by the human’s personality, uniqueness of skills, and the leadership of a…

still lingers and is affecting the health of Caucasians in America. Blow describes in his…

We, being the Canadian Caucasian, live in a culture where we try are constantly striving towards equality, fair treatment and eliminating racial bias. With or without knowing it however, we often make racial judgments directed towards the other. More specifically the “other” being an individual of Arab or Muslim ethnicity. Throughout this essay, I want to highlight many of the claims Sherene Razack argued in her essay Your Client has a Profile: Race in the Security Hearing. I will be comment…

The Largest Crime in the criminal justice system is that it is a race based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way. The Bureau of Justice Statistics state that in the United States an estimated 558,700 African American adults were incarcerated under state and federal jurisdiction. African American males had an imprisonment rate of 3,059 per 100,000 while white males had a rate of 456 per 100,000. There are facts to counterbalance…

school, I found it disappointing that the only future I care to live in is a future that has an unbiased humanity. From my 15 years of living, I have seen nothing but prejudice against ethnicity that resembles anything other than the “average” caucasian skin tones. When growing up with a multicultural surrounding, I never really asked why many of my classmates look different from each other. As a child, I accepted a main fact: people are uniquely different. Yet, when you move to an area where…

Hollywood has had a long, difficult history of racism. Although the obvious racism comes in many different forms, a prevalent type is whitewashing. Whitewashing is when a character of color is portrayed by a Caucasian person instead. One of the most famous instances of whitewashing was in 1961 in the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The Japanese character Mr. Yunioshi was portrayed by the white actor Mickey Rooney, complete with horrifyingly buck teeth, yellowed skin, pinched eyes, and an offensive…

Ever since the early exploration of the United States of America it has been the home of many different races and immigrants. As the government and states continued to develop the number of immigrants increased, being that people had hopes of developing a better life in the United States. As the number of immigrants grew from 1880 to 1925 tensions grew among Americans being that the immigrants worked for lower wages, they brought foreign cultures, and that Americans were racist towards…

earned. For example, many parents tell their teenage children that driving is a privilege and not a right. The truth is that not all privileges are earned nor are they always enjoyed. White privilege creates advantages for white people that other races cannot always say that they have. White people do not always like or create the perks received from white privilege. Many everyday activities include different privileges that are often unrecognized because they become the norm in our society.…

thing when a group of people are privileged to have the opportunity to pursuit their dreams here in the United States, or to have certain benefits or awards for belonging to such groups. On the flip side, being privileged in a diverse society where race and ethnicity sets the stage for majority and minority relationships, the word privilege segregates and maintains minority groups disadvantaged in the mainstream of society. One of the best definitions for this word through the social negative…