Xenophobia

Immigrants have to face to the problem of being alienated by a whole country. Americans have conjured up a lot of problems with not one group of immigrants, but most of them. A major case of xenophobia. Immigrants like to migrate to America in search of a new start with great opportunities. The problem is that the xenophobia in Americans will never allow those immigrants to be considered a full-fledged citizen. Immigrants cannot take advantage of all of those economic opportunities, because they…

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the Cold War and the Red Scare influenced science fiction in the 1950s. First, allusions to the Cold War will be examined to observe its prevalence in pop-culture. Second, Cold War symbolism will be examined to show how the writers and audience of science-fiction felt about the Cold War. Third, this paper will examine the depiction of scientific advancement because of the Cold War. The main reason that the science fiction genre was so popular during…

Harper Lee in To Kill a Mockingbird said the profound statement, “A mob 's always made up of people, no matter what (Lee, 1960).” Harper Lee shows the power of a group of people. It is interesting to think that there would never be trends, mobs, or a government. If one person has an idea and others want to follow a group, a mob, a government, a belief, or a trend will be started. Every individual idea formed -benevolent or abominable- has started an entity whether it be a revolution,…

Sin of Omission Throughout the course of American history, racial discrimination and acts of xenophobia are often reoccurring trends. Whether the acts of bigotry and prejudice were at a microscopic or macroscopic level, it heavily affected the psychological mentality and perceptions amongst those who were victimized. This is shown in a “Wilshire Bus”, a short story written by Hisaye Yamamoto to initiate a conversation and standpoint of often overlooked anti-Asian semantics. Through the hostile…

Essays, Not Rants! 281: Space Nazis I'm tired, I've had a long day. And I'm reading the news, and some days reading the news leaves you unable to finish your silly rant essay about a silly mobile game where you make karps flop around. So let's talk about Star Wars. It's hard to not read the original trilogy as a product of the Cold War, especially given the way contemporary language describes it. The USSR was described as being an unstoppable bear the United States was only outpacing through…

Knights of pure chivalry, warriors of bravery and wrath. Bedtime stories, riddled with villains, monsters, and dragons opening the floodgates of horror on royal subjects. Either through the means of science or time, the creatures have been condemned to only be real in stories. The snarling beasts of old, terrorizing only the pages of a book, the croaking voice of an old man passing on a story to children around a fire. The story of Beowulf is not excluded from the examples previously mentioned.…

Issues regarding language policies in the United States have become widespread after former Senator Samuel I. Hayakawa unsuccessfully proposed a constitutional amendment to declare English as the official national language to Congress in 1981. This was done to improve the efficiency of communication in society and symphonize the diversity of America’s society. Since there are hundreds of various languages spoken in America, passing this Official-English legislation would be the unifying force…

Media has the power to change people’s opinion on war, but it is up to those people to decide whether or not they want to be influenced. I think that most people hold firm beliefs regarding war, whether they are against it, or for it. When they go to see a movie, or watch a television show, they do not necessarily go with the intention of changing their opinion, so they just tend to block out any ideas that are contradicting to their beliefs. However, the few that actually absorb the information…

The Boston Globe It all starts with the overview of how social media has become a place where more harm than good is happening. No one meant Facebook or Instagram to become a spot of where hate is filtered through. Nicholas Carr is stating how getting more information on each other, was meant for good but instead “put us at each other’s throats.” “Although people believe that knowing leads to liking,” the researchers wrote, “knowing more means liking less” This quote is what the entire…

there were Chinese in the country who had helped build the Canadian Pacific Railway, this act showed how ungrateful and discriminative Canadians were in the 20s, with the public urging the government to deport Chinese Canadians. Paired with the xenophobia was classism, in 1925 coal miners in Nova Scotia were being paid small wages for hard and laborious work, this fits into the concept of classism since when they spoke out about their problems it was ignored and even when they were on strike…