Discrimination and Prejudice in United States History

As children grow up, they become the person they turn out to be because of experiences and the culture and society they grew up in. Nations are affected in the same sense because the people living in a nation affect how the nation is influenced and builds its character.

Discrimination is when someone has a bias opinion on a specific crowd of people due to their race, sex, religion, or order of rank. This basically goes hand in hand with the phrase judging a book by its cover meaning the person with the negative opinion will not give the other individual a fair chance for the reason being they are being stereotypical and not thinking of the other person’s talent, or character. A modern day example of discrimination would be if a male employer were to compensate a female employee a lower pay due to her gender. At some time in everyone’s life due to today society, we have all been victimized by discrimination. Whether it may be a dirty look from a random person, or the way you dress, talk, and even look.

Being Prejudice means that you are discriminating against another race or group of people. Discrimination is an awful thing that has been around since the beginning of time. It can be a dangerous thing because it can cause problems for example Hitler discriminating against the Jews and getting millions of people to hate them. I don’t think discrimination will be gone completely but there are some ways for it to be slowed down and/or reduced.

During the 1920’s the KKK displayed a strong power of continuity over the power of aberration. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Black Exclusion Act of 1849 began the use of prejudice and intolerances within the Pacific Northwest. The KKK used those Acts as a step and sustained the route. Throughout time the KKK definitely exemplified the use of exclusion, nativism, xenophobia, racism, and colonization. The list of people and or traits one had often exceeded what was viewed as wholesome. The pre-existing Act’s provided an area for the KKK to flourish along with the common white mans participation in the government and guidelines. In Oregon we have quite the diverse community, however, there is a lack of cultural diversity here compared

According to Collins Dictionary Online defines, “racism” means belief in or doctrine asserting racial differences in character, intelligence, etc. and the superiority of one race over another or others. Historically, there has always been many conflict of racism among ethnic groups in Canada; for example, the conflict between French and English Canadians and immigrants and Canadians.

Throughout American history, racial bias has always affected the assessment of serious crime cases. In my opinion, I found jury selected only one race to be imbalance because there is still racial bias among people and it may never change that fact. The only way to eliminate the unfair judgment of imbalance, we should abandon the peremptory challenges is being used in favor of the White. Black people not only have been illegally excluded but also denigrated and insulted with reasons intended to conceal racial bias.

In this modern world, prejudice is still a universal problem we still have yet to overcome. Although it is true that our society is much less prejudiced than it was 40-50 years ago, we are still struggling to create racial harmony in a world that is so diverse in terms of racial group, sexual orientations, ethnicity, nationality, religions, and so on. I think the core of prejudice comes from stereotyping, which is the generalization of motives, characteristics, or behavior to an entire group of people. In the world where media propaganda is ubiquitous, often times most stereotypes are not formed on valid experiences, instead they are based on images publicized by the mass media, or even created within our heads after seeing and hearing examples from many different sources, like movies, or even hearsay. Stereotyping is more powerful than we think, because it allows those false pictures to control our thinking that leads us to assign uniform characteristics to any person in a group, without consideration of the actual difference between members of that particular group.

Unfortunately due to our past history, discrimination had been among us from since decades. Discrimination and prejudice would probably be among us until the end of the world. Prejudice and discrimination is an action that treats people unfairly because of their membership in a particular social group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs to rather on that individual. It is an unfair treatment to a person, racial group, and minority. It is an action based on prejudice.

In recent years, African musicians, Asian Hollywood stars, and immigrant athlete play an active part in the United States. Various people from different countries make headlines in the media. At last, in 2008, Barak Hussein Obama was inaugurated as the first black president in the United States. However, to trace the history, it is no exaggeration to say American history was “History of racial discrimination.” Why people had to be discriminated in the past? How to improve the present circumstances of racial discrimination that remain in people’s mind? In this paper, trying to consider the true state of abolition of racial discrimination by showing the history of racial discrimination in the United States, the campaign for the abolition of racial

Why does the United States have to use this word called prejudice and why do we have to use this word to discriminate hate? People today in this generation as I am typing this paper they are either judging or misjudging one another by the color tone of their skin. Most or maybe all of us are being treated differently by their looks of their body parts, the stylish clothes they are wearing, or what type of things they do just to live to get thought the day without any trouble. Many of us have been through struggles to make their lives better to having luxury items to make them feel joyful to live their lives every day. Living their lives to the fullest, or the best way they can to make themselves feel special in a way.

Racism has been a social issue for centuries in history, and the situation of it has been up and down a couple of times during the past few centuries. Speaking from my personal perspective, the issue of racism has been solved well than ever comparing with how bad this problem had been in other time periods in history. However, the improvement of elimination of racism is still not enough to solve this historical problem.

Modern and historical forces combine to separate many racial and ethnic communities disconnected from networks of economic opportunity and upward mobility. Among those forces is constant racial discrimination that, while subtler than in past decades, continues to deny opportunity to millions of

The act of discrimination is a factor that is a part of the United States history. The era of slavery divided America into two nations. Therefore, one group always had to be seen as superior to an inferior group. For instance, Blacks were inferior to the Whites. Using the theory of symbolic racism that focuses on the prejudices against blacks. Many Americans and members of the government feels that discrimination towards blacks is not that noticeable. However, if that was the case police brutality will be low when it comes to blacks. The current issue pertain to race is the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, which was created following the death of Trayvon Martin, a young black man, that was racially profiled and stereotyped whom was shot and killed because he was seen as a “threat”. The emergence of more African Americans being killed over senseless crimes have caused more people to join the movement and promote change and try to rebuild the black community that has been destroy by discrimination and stereotypes. It’s more than the brutality of Africans Americans it’s about the future as a race in relation to education, the prison system, wage gap, opportunities, health, poverty, sexual identity, and government. When Nixon declared a War on Drugs it was a seen as a war against African Americans. As individuals we can not neglect that the political arena is contributing to the racism. Nixon administration can still be seen as symbolic racism that is occurring when

America was languishing as a nation because the people defaulted. "One hundred years later, the negroes are still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land" (3). Even today we are struggling because of racism. It takes only one story or experience to hate all black or white people and that's the main cause of discrimination or racism. We are all brothers and sisters according to Martin Luther King Jr. If we don't continue to fight off discrimination and racism, Dr King risked his life for nothing. He died doing what he loved and believed in, spreading his speech through out America. "It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory

As we are creeping up on the fifteen-week, I have learned that one we are destined for two things, war and prejudice. Historians often say that history is crucial because it will repeat itself. Humanists would argue saying that history does not repeat itself, but people with common traits make similar decisions. Mark Twain once said that ” History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.” I think the quote is relevant because throughout American history primarily in the southern states prejudice people claim equality depending on color and race that continue to haunt the South. This reoccurring nightmare of segregation has lasted throughout history.