Caribbean Prejudice

Today whenever you look on the television, mainstream media showcases Haitians in a negative light, resulting to misleading stereotypes and accusations of Haiti and Haitians in general. They always appear to have skin dark as night or that Haitians are the great whisperers of voodoo and dark magic. Majority of their government is corrupt and unjust due to the unfairness of money distributed in the country and poverty rising every year. Most hurtful of them all, is Haitians are poor and live in shacks made out of aluminum sheets and tires held together by the AIDS virus. Even after the unfortunate earthquake that Haiti had encountered in 2010, people were still condemned Haitians and their country, but now with sympathy in their eyes. All

Being Hispanic is being able to enjoy and demolish your mom’s tamales at Christmas. Being Hispanic is also being able to explain horchata to your friends and watch soccer games with your family. It’s being able to be proud of your culture and roots. However, being Hispanic is living in fear. Being Hispanic means sometimes you don’t know if your parents will come home from work. It’s being petrified that your dad may get pulled over because he is driving without a license. Being Hispanic is seeing your mom come home, tired from a low paying job, because she could not pursue an education. Hispanic means working hard in life to make your parents proud, to make all the looks of discrimination worth it. Being Hispanic is also being told “no” repeatedly,

Chon reviews and tests Neapolitan’s Regional Subculture of Violence Thesis (1994). The finding from this study suggested the current multiple regression analysis did not support Neapolitan’s argument. However, structure factors are more of a predicator in determining high homicide rate in Latin America. Chon explains the nation’s high homicide rate comes from a multitude of sources. One explanation is constructed on the regional violent culture theory. The other explanation is structure factors, which are (a) poverty (GDP per capita), (b) income inequality, (c) literacy rate, (d) alcoholic consumption level, (e) age distribution. The researcher uses published reviewed sources to support the main argument as well as used Neapolitan’s Regional Subculture of Violence Thesis (1994). This journal article will serve to be useful for answering my research question because it uses structural factors in determining the cause of homicide rate. Also, this article focus specifically on Latin America and the countries I am studying are in Latin

Several say that Hispanics are coming to America to take all the jobs, as well to take full advantage of all the benefits the United States offer like welfare and section 8 housing. It’s sad to see how Hispanics are treated differently since there a different ethnicity. This discrimination will keep happening due to that the government system is corrupt, and because they don’t assign stricter sentences when it comes to racism or hatred crimes towards Hispanics. Although, if it was the other way around for Hispanics or African Americans being racist towards the white people or do hateful crimes to them, then it would totally be a big deal.

Cuban Americans are sometimes stereotyped as mostly being anti-Castro militants or extremists and have been described in some media reports, including newspaper editorials, as “crazies” for their aggressive protests. They were also labeled as overly emotional and hyper-violent criminals. Unlike other Latinos, they still have their images of being lazy, submissive, and

This paper will explore how Puerto Rico can reverse and reduce their current murder rate. I have developed several recommendations to help the Puerto Rican authority’s achieve this goal. I base my recommendations on research conducted from books like the CIA world Fact Book, Preventing crime: what works for children, offenders, victims, and places, along with other websites, and my own personal experience as a military police officer.

This is one of the largest problems happening now, right under our noses. It has got so bad that some people are unaware whilst they are doing it. Disgusting right? It literally pains my heart when it is occurring and I see people doing absolute nothing about it. Racism. But then again people are so quick to throw around the word racist. It goes something like, “you’re racist”, “that’s very racist of you”. But in addition to that a majority of people do not even know the correct and precise meaning. The dictionary meaning ‘ the belief that each race has certain qualities or abilities, giving rise to the belief that certain races are better than others’. Racism is the violation of the rights of a group of people on the basis of race, colour, religion, national origin, place of origin or ancestry. When will we stop it?!

I went to a high school in Canada where I graduated with one coloured student, so my ideas of race are completely different from students here. Coming down here was a bit of a shock how big racial issues were, it was something I never really had to deal with at home and I hadn’t put much thought into it. One of the biggest eye opening things that happened on campus what the black lives matter march that happened last year around campus. I just happened to be going for dinner at the main dining hall when it started out in the courtyard out front. It was a new experience because there had never been protests or marches tribute to race where I grew up, I had never seen people passionate about it like I saw that night. I wouldn’t go as far to say that I was unaware of race before this happened, I have been educated on the subject, but since I believe I have become much more aware of it. I have started to realize discrimination as well as pay

Until very recently, people have generally denied that racial discrimination and racial inequality exist in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) (Bailey, 2002; Thompson, 2017). These people assert class is more salient and race is not a contributing factor of individuals' socioeconomic status in LAC societies (Bailey 2002; Aronson-Ensign, 2014). Despite this popular belief, race does play a significant role in LAC societies as it manifests itself in the discrimination against Afro Latinos. Although invisible, racial discrimination is present and habitually insidious (Mikulak, 2011).

I enjoyed reading your post. You brought up a good point as to why you think that prejudice exists- fear. I am sure that is a major aspect of it. Like you, I also feel that people fear what they do not or cannot understand.

During the 20th century Latin America went through a change after the U.S made the clam to directly defend Latin America. This caused a sudden trade switch from the Europe nation to the U.S. With this trade switch we start to see a big gap between the lower and upper class. With this gap the poor gets poorer and the rich become Carlos Slim. Carlos Slim was the world’s richest person form 2010-2013 and is a perfect example of how the upper class becomes billionaires. The wealth Disparity can also be seen in areas like Sao Paulo, Brazil with their slums. With this wage gap, crime started to flourish in Latin amerce along with corruption. Some of the best examples of crime and corruption are the Colombian drug cartels with their widespread murder and bribery tactics.

Endemic poverty and political instability are two factors that profoundly influence Latin America. The causes are individual for each country and or region. The use of the term endemic emphasises the individualistic and enduring nature of these causes. Therefore, when comparing the causes of endemic poverty and political instability in Mexico and Guyana there will be substantial differences. They are nevertheless, in a similar region of the world, therefore, similarities are also probable. Contrasts emerge due to proximity to the US and similarities are evident in the marginalisation of rural citizens. Both countries have suffered from poor governance and brutality of poverty.

INTRODUCTION: Panama, a country filled with beauty, culture and ample natural resources, is a land bridge located between Costa Rica and Colombia that connects both North and South America. In spite of its rich heritage and turbulent past, it is most known as the country where the Panama Canal is located. This channel connects both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and it is the main hub for the economic global trade between the west and east continents. Though the democratic nation is progressively recovering from periods of war, strikes and dictatorships, it has failed to capitalize on the Canal’s ability to increase the country’s economic position. As a result, many people turn to corruption and drugs for financial stability which negatively

Creating groups based off of ethnicity was easy and comfortable, breezily sharing stories between each other with things we have encountered and experienced; as well as finding common themes and situations each person within a group could relate to.

It has influenced the rise in crime as more persons become squeezed into smaller living areas, which are densely populated. The crime rate escalates as the persons in the densely populated areas desire to climb out of these areas and obtain the lifestyles of the tourists who look prosperous and the “other” Bahamians who are enjoying the “good life”. In order to obtain the “American Dream” as seen by the tourists who come to the Bahamas, some factions of the Bahamian youth turn to selling drugs, prostitution, gangs (which give them the perception of power) and ultimately taking drugs. The desire to become wealthy quickly then causes a proliferation of the drug culture. The drug culture negatively affects other factions of the Bahamian populace as it causes an increase in burglaries, rapes, home invasions, murder etc.