Nordic race

at disadvantages with their education, household, and poverty. “Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one’s full potential as a human being” -Amartya Sen. Ever since the United States became a country one race in particular that has always been at a disadvantage which is the African American community. Ever since this happened it has just been getting worse and worse. Now it is such a huge disadvantage, that it is physically and mentally impossible to…

could cause more racism as time goes on, and underestimate the talents of all cultures. Several forms of whitewashing are present in the media. First of all, there is the version when a white actor portrays a character that is supposed to be another race. In the movie The Lone Ranger, Johnny Depp played a Native American character. This variation of whitewashing means any of the characters portrayed as white people no longer have the ethnic variety that the story was written for. The story is…

Too Hard to Believe: The New Jim Crow:Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness The New Jim Crow would be the other word that describes the part of time where many African American people did not have their rights and were living a life that made them feel like they are nothing. The New Jim Crow has been known between everyone because of its importance to our lives. Michelle Alexander who is an associate professor of law at the Ohio State University, a civil right advocate and a writer,…

The Civil War and its resulting Amendments 13th through 15th to be enforced through the Reconstruction all failed to due resistance by the white majority. Ensuring the segregation of white and black Americans was how white America made its feelings known, and so while black Americans were now free, they were not free to access all public places and spaces, including schools, public transportation, entertainment venues, parks, fountains and beaches. If one looks up the history of Jim Crow, it…

During slavery and far beyond its end, Americans racial ideologies were used to sustain the white races position, and even scientists in general (Ferraro, and Andreatta, 2015, p. 308). White Americans saw blacks as unteachable, simple beasts, regardless of the fact that their treatment of slaves, and the restrictions they placed upon them were constructions meant to keep them from learning more than was necessary to do the work expected of them. However, one cannot help but learn, even when…

Comprehension” How do incarceration rates in the U.S. compare with other developed nations? Golash-Boza writes, “The United States stands alone in its rate of incarceration … In 2012, the United States had 2,228,424 people behind bars. The next largest incarcerated population was in China, with 1,701,344 prisoners, followed by Russia, Brazil, and India“ (223). In particular, no other country can compare with the incarceration rates in the United States. It’s quite telling that developed…

Having good hair is ultimately related to good hygiene and beauty. If you have good hair, you are admired and envied by many. How do you know that you have good hair? What builds your confidence about your hair? It seems to all start with external factors, the words, and relations people use to describe you. You begin to relate the facial expressions, gestures, and word usage to positive and negative factors. If the words used have been related to positivity, it begins to build your confidence…

Becoming an immigrant in another countries children faces numerous difficulties. The problem arises when identical backgrounds became a question. Continues clashes round the world have prompted to yearly acceleration in the quantity of individuals living in outcast condition. When a child is raised with a different cultural background to the one he/she is living in, he/she may face problems with language, isolation and prejudice. Firstly, it is not a great surprise that children who are growing…

The 1990s were an era of increasing recognition of homosexuality in broadcast media, so much so that scholar Ron Becker referred to the period as “the gay 1990s”, as programs increasingly began to depict gay characters both explicitly and implicitly. Since the emergence of such characters the representation of members of the LGBTQ+ community has increased and broadened, which is especially evident when comparing the “Men on Film” sketch from the pilot of FOX’s In Living Color in 1990, and ABCs…

“Unfortunately, slavery is not only something of the past. When I first learned that there are now 21 million people enslaved today, I was astonished and terrified. Have we learned nothing from the past?” - Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave). We take responsibility for what we do, not for what others have caused. In the quote above, McQueen states how we have reflected something from the past into the present. The differences in the past and the present has been drastically changed throughout the…