Minorities

(Walker, 2011). The Perceptions that claimed that minorities were responsible for the drug epidemic established moral panic in the judicial ideology of sentencing judges, which resulted in higher incarceration and harsher punishments for minorities. (Walker, 2011). The more these negative perceptions grow, the more the system focuses on these races/ethnicities and their neighborhoods. Law enforcements are the ones who have the most contact with minorities due to the decisions of racial profiling…

These impacts include understanding the usual standpoint of only one culture and favoring them over another, speaking for a culture as if the person from the majority group shares the same standpoint as the people from a minority group, and using power over the minority individual or group with the minority’s standpoint in mind. Darling-Wolf explains, “if our position can render even well-intended and carefully crafted speech epistemologically dangerous and place it beyond our control, attempts…

equality? Racial inequality is extremely prevalent in the workplace, even if it may not be as common as it once was. The concept of racial inequality within the workplace covers several things, such as the difference in wages and the percentages of minorities hired. This topic was chosen as it is something that seems to still be a large issue in our society, if not even more so due to the fact that there seems to be a common misconception that it is no longer an issue. Racial inequality within…

Louis P. Pojman uses the article, “The Case Against Affirmative Action,” to address why he is against Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action is where people take steps to increase the number of women, or people of color in situations like education and employment because, they were a part of a group that were discriminated against. One solid argument that he has is known as the role model argument. In the role model argument, he argues, “We all have need of role models, and it helps to know that…

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Affirmative action is reverse discrimination, it favors minorities who struggle in trying to get employed or an education. Anyone can go through this, it is not just one race. This started on March 6, 1961 when President John F. Kennedy signed the Executive order 10925. This encouraged many to not discriminate people for their religion, color or background. Affirmative Action is not necessary because it is very unfair to most of the kids who wake up each morning more…

As minorities, my family and I resemble ants. We try not to get stepped on, we fight to bring home the most we can, and we constantly prove ourselves to be incredibly strong. Neverending challenges threaten to defeat us, but with the support of our community, we are ready to overcome them. Being a minority placed several obstacles on my path. I’m easily unnoticed, belittled, and underestimated. As a young hispanic woman, being stereotyped is not something unfamiliar to me. I constantly…

understanding behind the intersectionality of race and sex. The assumption that race and sex can be divorced and examined separately prevents many people from grasping the concept of black feminist thought. African-American women are a part of a minority race and minority sex, which they must live with on a daily basis. Therefore, examining race and sex separately is a distorted, biased, and inaccurate view on African-American women in society. As a member of the two of the lowest castes in…

Tortoriello looks at the statistics of the life of a minority. Tortoriello goes more into detail when specifically hitting on the difference of treatment when it comes to school. Tortoriello hits on the idea that not all people are given equal rights or benefits especially if you’re a minority. The journal even stated the idea that low-income families, as long as their child is American (primarily white), can get an accepted way more than a minority ever could hope to. The key factors are how…

growing minority?”, the author says that, “Other experts agree that the field needs a diversity of viewpoints, but point out that it 's not only the male perspective that is underrepresented in psychology” (Cassandra Willyard), shows how men are not the only ones who are underrepresented in the accordance to the background in the field. A black person who works hard and gets into the computer science and engineering field but doesn’t get a job over…

An investigation into whether the knowledge and understanding of food labelling are associated with obesity in particular consumer groups. INTRODUCTION Over the past 20 years, the rates of obesity and overweight have increased significantly (Visscher, 2001) and is diagnosed as one of most serious threats to public health of the time (Katz, 2005). Differences in related policies and health behaviour may be one of the causes (WHO, 2000) or lack of food labelling knowledge in the process of…