Minority Report

“Race, we will see, has been a social construction that has historically set apart racial minorities from European immigrant groups” (Takaki, 71). This quote is a great example of how being a different race separates you from being equal to being equal to white people. In Rosewood, when the white men found out that Jon Wright sold ammo to the black…

It is a frequent occasion where people with different opinions, ways of thinking, or appearances from others might feel excluded and like an outsider. Outsiders are individuals who are misjudged by their appearance, race, or behavior. People tend to misjudge outsiders before getting to know them, and often see them as people of not much value. In “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka the protagonist Gregor Samsa wakes up in the beginning in the story as an insect. He determines to keep living his…

Aristotle once said, “The worst form of inequality, is trying to make unequal things equal.” A major example of this concept of inequality displays itself through humans. Although people may seem similar and equal, each personality and talent differs from one another. Now one might wonder what it would be like if every single person were truly equal. This theme is developed in the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, and also in the film 2081 directed by Chandler Tuttle. Tuttle’s…

Discrimination means the practice of treating one group in society in an unfair way (LD384). The causes of the discrimination are various. Discrimination exist nowadays even in countries where freedom is believed strongly. In this democratic world, people still discriminate others.Gender discrimination often happens to women because they were born as women. Men keep discriminating women because they keep assuming that they are the ones who have the power over women. There is a taboo that…

Many employees of higher positions, such as managers and executives, are Caucasian and there are very few minorities who are in these positions. As hospitals grow and the number of patients increases, so does the diversity of the patients. Because of that, the number of minorities who serve positions in hospitals require growth. The more minorities in a location require a higher demand of minorities to be employed in healthcare facilities. It is imperative to have diversity in hospitals because…

Poverty in the African American Urban Community: Theories, Factors and Contributions A renewed allegiance to community upliftment, particularly in the interest of promoting adequate living conditions for those residing in poor urban communities, is essential in the development of a thriving lower class community. Social change within the African American Community is not singularly defined by upward economic mobility, nor can it be characterized by the individual achievements of those who have…

This largely comes from the fact that we are both in the majority group as males and do not have to think about gender that often (Sensoy). For me it is hard for me check myself, because I have never experience being in a minority group. Luckily, for Louis he has experienced this, so he can build off that to help himself learn to stop this action. I think this make it obvious to me that likely every male is going to struggle with sexism, because we are socialized to think…

There has been a lot of research done on ways to reduce prejudice against minority groups. In order to reduce prejudice, we must support diversity. There are two different perspectives when view diversity. There is prevention focus and promotion focus (p.368). Prevention focus is when you are being motivated by feelings of duty, responsibility or obligation. While on the other hand, promotion focus involves desires to support others or to achieve a common goal (p. 368). Prevention motives have…

religion, and sex. However the university of California designated 16 out of 100 spots (16%) of admission for minority applicants in an attempt to create a diverse student body. This minority group included Blacks, Chicanos, Asians, and American Indians. Despite some of these minority applicants having lower test scores than Bakke they were accepted solely on the fact that they would contribute minority status to the university. Therefore the universities admission process violated the Civil…

Today’s society has placed plenty of stereotypes upon Asian Americans. Labeling them as the model minority, assuming that all Asian Americans are intelligent by nature, seems to be the most common (Szu 2003). These stereotypes have been negatively affecting the growing population of Asian Americans in the school systems, as they are leading to teacher bias. Bias in the classroom can cause teachers to view all their Asian American students as intelligent and assume they are receiving academic…