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    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…

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    racial groups in the United States (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…

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    “model minority” in the United States. Louis Wirth, “a scholar from the highly influential "Chicago School" of sociology, defines ‘minority’ as a group of people who, because of their physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination" (Parikh 161). In the article “How Chris…

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    job and be able to have a life after college. The Michigan Law School continues to accept minorities with poor LSAT scores so that the “class looks right, even if it does not perform right” (Clarence). Not only that, Affirmative Action is patronizing minorities. Meaning that they have a lower standard than whites as if they are unable of producing the same quality of work. Also, this patronization of minorities leads to businesses being brought down because of Affirmative Action (Affirmative…

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    part of American history. Unfortunately, discrimination still plays an important role in today’s society. Discrimination is most evident in the way minorities are targeted and treated before and after entering the criminal justice system. The way the government has targeted African Americans, the reasons that have led to overrepresentation on minorities in the criminal justice system, the percent of African Americans incarcerated in relation to their population, the way white collar crime is…

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    Separatism In China

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    inherent in the interaction between Chinese and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. We should expect such a relationship that is filled with conquest and unfairness to be tumultuous. Having understood the nature of these conflicts, we then move on to discover that the economic factors play the most important role in modern day Xinjiang society. The uneven job and wealth distribution becomes the major source of dissatisfaction among ethnic minorities from which instability stems. The situation was…

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    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…

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    Have you ever been victim to hate or discrimination? Are you part of a minority group? Was the person who discriminated you a different race? The answer to most of these questions is… yes. Sadly since the beginning of mankind there has always been someone who is excluded, or has been viewed as different. We as people have a natural instinct to stick with the people we most relate to, and tend to shove those who are different away. Does this always have to be the case? In most situations…. it…

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    alternative to the view on the decisions of the Supreme Court is the Majoritarian Approach. This approach says that the decisions in court cases reflect the majority (white) in the United States and that the minority groups are underrepresented and do not receive the same benefits as the majority group does. This view is seen more so in the beginning of the nation when slavery was recently ended and many still felt that the white males deserved the most respect and rights. In a more recent case…

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    Disparity In Prisons

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    disproportionate number of minority inmates. There are many underlying factors fueling this imbalance. This research paper will highlight and inspect the social, political, and legal structures that currently contribute to this disparity. I will also address the issues that exacerbate our penal system: generational poverty, the war on drugs, and racial profiling. When you hear of a disparity between minority and Caucasian prison populations, you would probably think it’s a result of minorities…

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