3.How Do Comparisons Of Race And Ethnic Relations Among

the climax of racism, the idea of racial inequality was introduced and nourished in the pre-colonized

“White privilege refers to the fact that in many societies, “white” people have access to greater power, authority, and privileges, than non-white people” (Robbins et al. 2013:81). It goes beyond letting white people get away with more than other races; it also discriminates against them. This is well illustrated by the history of white privilege in America and how it changed over time (Nkomo & Ariss 2013) and how white privilege is used to benefit white people (Blum n.d). Without white privilege, people would be equal and perhaps live in a more peaceful society. Therefore, if white privilege has been around for years and continues to be an issue in America and all around the world, than without educating the population and making them aware of the issue it will continue to happen.

The article “The Great White Way” by Debra J. Dickerson attempts to show her readers that “Race is an arbitrary system for establishing hierarchy and privilege” (68) in America. In her article, Dickerson questions how “whiteness” leads America in our culture and society and how all the other races are defined in America. She also explains how history has divided whites from non-whites in America. The intended audience that Dickerson’s essay gravitated towards are political or liberal Americans. In her article “The Great White Way”. Debra J. Dickerson powerfully argues that race is an overall way to establish social classes and who and what get special privileges because of their certain race or skin color. Dickerson argues that “Race is

Throughout the centuries the “White” people have been known to think of themselves as being superior because of their color. If we look back at the time when the White Europeans came to this country they saw no reason to apply rules of honor to people they considered savages because they looked and acted different. Some might call this kind of thinking Social Darwinism where the “White” race is superior and destined to rule over all others. Clearly, the Native Americans were discriminated because of their color, which resulted in economic deprivation. However, now they play a huge role in our communities.

There have been many people such as, historians, politicians, academicians, and writes who believe they have a theoretical justification for White

The way people of color lack whiteness can come in appearance, speech, activities and many more. We associate certain things to certain groups and obviously white American have their own standard that the whole society has created. When non-white people do not fit that standard of the American society, “whiteness”, we see it as a threat or something “not acceptable”. So our automatic reaction is to fight back, distance ourselves from the difference and start using discriminatory practices against them; where these tensions and status quo can emerge as a

White Fragility is an essay by Robin DiAngelo that critiques the inner workings of how white majority population poorly converse and interacts with the racial social construct that resides in modern American culture. Not privileged with the opportunity to ignore racial tensions, blacks are ready to discuss the disadvantages they face daily in America’s white privileged culture. DiAngelo states that since whites have not had been forced to develop a mode of conversing about racial inequalities in black culture; therefore whites become uncomfortable, evasive, and angry. Because of evasive language when triggers such as “suggesting that a white person’s viewpoint comes from a racialized frame of reference”, the construct of white supremacy is

colonization is compelled by predatory empowerment. The driving force behind european imperialism in africa was the trade of resources, and the power obtained from the competition of it.

The Dictionary of American History, defines White Supremacy as “the belief that members of the Caucasian or white race are superior in all ways to other groups or races in the world” The ideology supports the position that, intellectually whites are superior and by virtue of that superiority must form the Government and lead other races, who were thought of as less than humans and existed only to serve the whites. White Supremacy is the foundation upon which the United States was built. It is manifested in all the important areas throughout the country’s history. For instance, “the United States Government has a total of 55 members; all white and 15 of the 55 are owners of African slaves” . “No blacks, or other minority races were included in the formation of the Government. Only one person of color has ever been elected to the US Government” .

The principle justification offered by the Europeans for their colonization of Asia & Africa was the moral and technological superiority of the western world. As the Europeans saw it, the spread of the European way of life would substantially increase living standards for the colonized. While economic reasons were obviously the primary impetus for colonial expansion, the Europeans believed that they were not only improving the natives’ conditions, but they were saving their mortal souls by bringing Christianity to them. Over time, the technologically advanced way of life came to be associated with Europe, and with Europeans. This is the cause of the racist and social Darwinist undertones in the documents.

America has coined the idea of being know as a melting pot of all races and ethnicities. Therefore, the question of white being the same as American has a more complex answer than just yes or no. Being merely white in skin color dos not correlate to an American status. Sonia Shah encountered a similar problem when she was asked to write about Asian American History Month. “… the term ‘Asian American’ itself it problematic. Most of the people whom others would categorize as ‘Asian American’ most emphatically don’t think of themselves that way” Shah explains (RGG 245). Therefore, categorizing white people as “White American” is neglecting their origin and culture, the same thing as Shah noted about Asian Americans.

White people have an invisible package of unearned assets. Invisible in the way that they can't be seen or touched, but can be cashed in everyday at colored peoples expense. White people have these unearned advantages and privileges just for being white, and in our society this leads to a systematic tendency to over empowerment, where denial of these advantages occurs leading to no changes in society.

After reading chapters five and six in the Sue text, I feel that minority groups understand what it means to be “White” much better than the majority of White people do. I believe this is because they have to deal with what it means to not be White on a daily basis, in a culture where whiteness equates to power and privilege. White privilege unfortunately works like that- Whites are unaware of its oppressive force, as it does not affect us- because we created it. If I am honest, I have realized that I was unaware of many aspects of my own White privilege. For the purpose of this paper, since political correctness infers that Caucasian is an outdated term (Dewan, 2013), and to answer what my race is accurately, I am White.

Throughout history, people have used the words “whiteness”, “white”, and “dream”. These words all had many different uses; some good, and others bring people down, or put them below others. “Whiteness” and “White” are words used everywhere, and they elicit an emotional response from people, impacting how an audience view these words. To some “white” could be symbolic of the hurt, and degration; due to the fact that people use it as a way as a cause for negitive separation. For certain populations “whiteness” was used to justify unequality, and there wasn’t a chance for change. This goes all the way back to England before revolution of America. Where there was the discrimination wasn’t even all based on color, but on ethic and religion. Yet over the years people started to see what was wrong with segrating different people out by ethic groups, instead of by their actions.

If prompted with the question what is colonization and or how did Europe and America colonize different countries and peoples the answer might be as simple as: it was the process of taking land from other countries and pushing to change the peoples of those countries towards western ways. This answer is to simple, a lot of people do not know the motives behind colonizing another country. Even though the motives behind colonizing another country depend on the time and location of the colonizing, Europe and America have always set above every other country around the world. They title themselves as being superior to all others. Thus, a lot of countries bought into the western ways and believe Westerners to be “demigod”. In Michael Adas essay, Contested Hegemony: The Great War and the Afro-Asian Assault on the Civilizing-Mission, even though the focus is on the ups and downs of colonization in Asia and Africa. The essay looks at the motives behind colonizing these peoples, why some bought into the idea and how World War One changed everything for Europe, Asia and Africa in terms of colonization.