Vietnamese people

People will always have a problem with someone whether if it’s how you wear your hair, who you believe in or who you don’t believe in, the skin on your body or what you wear. You can be the ripest peach and still someone won’t like peaches! My point is you can’t sit there and get upset because of something you can’t change and that you shouldn’t want to change! Everyone is made an original why would you want to die a copy? I will discuss what my life was like growing up from my heritage, to…

One evening in March 1868, the corpse of William Robinson, a black settler on Saltspring Island, was discovered in his cabin.1 The colonial authorities determined that he had been murdered.2 The trial that followed resulted in the execution of an Indian named Tom. Though executed, the court’s handling of the case is problematic due to clear witness and evidence tampering as well as the prevalent racial biases held at the time. These flaws would have rendered the court’s decision to convict and…

Devastating and Drastic, the Irish Potato Famine changed Ireland in a variety of ways. Farmers and regular people were starving to death due to the lack of healthy potatoes. The people in Ireland were extremely dependent on potatoes and when the blight came the economy went down. As the fungus spread throughout the country, people began to lose their main source of food. Since the people in Ireland depended on the potato, it made the population cripple with the lack of a healthy food. The Irish…

conformity and alienation as well as self actualization and realization interconnect among one another. Discrimination is the unjust treatment towards categories of people based on prejudices. In all five movies this was revealed, some more predominant than the rest. The social organization of each culture proves the disparity between groups of people. Evident in Cry Freedom is the inequity of the blacks of South Africa. The white individuals are portrayed as superior and everything about…

Have you ever seeing people vandalizing on a public transportation, and you were just sitting there doing nothing about it? I have and I regret my decision of silence. In the City of San Francisco, vandalism is a form of urban art, but according to SF Public Work, it cost around 20 million annually to recover the damage from vandalism. As a rider of the public transportation, our bus fee was raised several times because of vandalism. Why did I stay silence on the bus? I could have stopped the…

Lower Nigerian villages, in Iguedo and Mbanta. The change in the village and the different traditions are hard to understand for some of the villagers especially Okonkwo who commits suicide because the villagers take on the traditions of the white people and in Okonkwo’s eyes that was a weak act. We also see the value of women in this novel, how important they are, but how unimportant they are to Okonkwo. In Depth look at Okonkwo’s Family Okonkwo had several children with his three wives, his…

(1310). These were objects that the white man would use back during slavery to try to teach that “nigger” a lesson. The white people in “Blood-Burning Moon” still had a thought process of thinking that they still own and control blacks. The white men stuck a stake into the ground, poured the kerosene on to rotting floorboards, and bounded Tom to the stake. White people were stuck in the thinking process of being a slave owner by the way they went about killing Tom. African-Americans were free,…

seek redemption. In contrast to how Citizen feels about causing a person’s death, Caesar justifies his actions as necessary to protect the greater good. Black Mary affirms Caesar’s rationale by telling Eli “Caesar’s doing his job. That’s what the people can’t see” (Wilson 14). Noggle provides a description in which “Caesar, Black Mary’s brother and local constable, has fully absorbed the dominate society’s individualistic (capitalistic) attitude, and consistently exploits the community” (63).…

it was perceived as for so long in history. Race, they argue, is defined by expectations in which people are judged in everyday interactions. Because of these these expectations (“stereotypes”) of how people should act, which is especially dependent on their fluctuating social status, black stigmatization and white privilege are able to survive and flourish. In their research they discovered that people tended to be classified (and identify themselves) as “more white” or “more black” based on…

Jaybelle and thousands of other Filipino and Filipina immigrants bear the burden of scouring for finances while feeling discrimination as people of color in the work force, carry the reputation of their homeland through their behaviors amidst unfamiliar American culture, and hold a hope for the actualization of the American Dream. The significance behind Jaybelle’s transnational journey delves deeper than the blanket generalizations that “all Filipina immigrants are caretakers or nurses” and…