Xenophobia

Xenophobia, racist comments, hatred, and prejudice are things refugees have to face daily. Every year many refugees seek asylum in other countries, as they come from places that are not as secure as countries like America, and feel unwelcomed with all the hostility. Ignorance and not knowing the whole picture are reasons why many falsely judge immigrants. The power of fear and unknown is what stunts the growth of negative opinions and is the underlying cause of hateful actions. In the…

DEFINITION Radicalization can be defined in several ways, however, most definitions correspond in defining radicalization as a process of developing and supporting extremist views (Allen, 2007; Home Office, 2009; Smith, 2009; Dalgaard-Nielsen, 2010). Radicalization is a process, and extremism is the end point. PROCESS This paper will discuss the process of which factors are present in the process of radicalization. Individuals do not suddenly become radicalized, but rather it is a’ step-by-step…

News media has and continues to have an instrumental role in the shaping of protests movements. However, the role of the mainstream media in contrast to social media encompasses some over arching similarities and also some very distinctive differences. Through a critical analysis of the scholarly articles of both, Occupy Wall Street in Perspective, Calhoun (2013) and Twenty-First-Century Debt Collector: Idle No More Combats a Five-Hundred-Year-Old-Debt, Morris (2014), illustrates the sway of…

That 's why cultural appropriation is not the same as cultural exchange, when people share mutually with each other because cultural exchange lacks that systemic power dynamic. For many people, barriers like classism, racism, and xenophobia mean they don 't have the right look, language, or position of privilege to earn income with their culturally specific tools and yet oftentimes, white people can turn those same culturally specific tools into profit, thereby hurting the community…

During the period 1840 to 1929, the United States’ population was on a significant rise due to a major increase in immigrants. An increased combination of “pushes” and “pulls” improved migrations throughout the United States. Some push factors included poverty of farmers, overcrowding in cities, and religious persecution. Positive reasons for moving to the United States, or pull factors, included political and religious freedom, economic opportunities, and the abundance of industrial jobs in U.S…

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour of 1941 served as a turning point for the Americans’ involvement in the Second World War. The outlook for the war changed because the United States was abruptly awoken from its neutral standpoint; it resulted in a rise of anti-Japanese sentiment across the country; and provided some of the motivation behind the attack on Hiroshima a few years later. Up until the day of the surprise attack, the United States had taken position as a neutral nation in regards to…

exposed a glaring staleness in the air of American cinema, prompting a veritable arms race to match it’s creative force. In his book The Monster Show, author David J. Skal writes, “Caligari built up a pretentious head of steam, capitalizing on postwar xenophobia and traditional American self-doubts in matters artistic. Caligari was a kind of cultural sputnik launched out of nowhere by Europe, a gauntlet not thrown down, but projected up on the severing screen…

After the Civil War, the United States experienced social, legal, and political development and transformation. As the nation began to transform, so too were the dynamics of race and gender, that intersected within immigration and/or labor. The decades between 1877 and 1914 witnessed the legal construction of race, partially catalyzed by an influx of non-Anglo immigrants from Europe and Asia, and new found freedom for Black slaves. For instance, in order to be naturalized as a US citizen, one…

around white supremacy and social identity. Power was given to people based on their worth. Much of racism can be defined by fear in which both authors demonstrate extreme xenophobic tendencies, hidden bias and social identity. Winter’s defines xenophobia as people being conditioned to fear others who are different from them (Winters, 2002). He also explains that hidden bias is unspoken tendencies that can be seen when observing the environment (Winters, 2002). For example, in “The Lurking…

Indeed, there have been so many cases of suicide, self-harm, hate crimes that are consequences of discrimination occasioned by fear. Psychologists have named it Xenophobia− the fear of anything foreign or unknown. Currently we continue observing stereotype threats on gender roles, race, ethnicities, body type it is not uncommon to hear expressions: Brazilians like samba, coffee, and Carnival, this is a job for the…