Does Marginalization Cause Bullying?

In this response, I am going to discuss how a person’s experience in the U.S can be affect by marginalization based on their ethnicity. I will refer to Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem to provide examples. Tommy Pico is the author of Nature Poem, as a gay, native American male Pico has face a fair share of adversity and marginalization throughout his life. He shares many of his experiences in Nature Poem. Your experiences in the U.S can be different based on your nationality, your sexual preference, and the area you live in.

The title of this book comes from the inspiring words spoken by Sojourner Truth at the 1851, nine years prior to the Civil War at a Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. In Deborah Grays White, Ar’n’t I a woman her aim was to enrich the knowledge of antebellum black women and culture to show an unwritten side of history of the American black woman. Being an African- American and being a woman, these are the two principle struggles thrown at the black woman during and after slavery in the United States. Efforts were made by White scholars in 1985 to have a focus on the female slave experience. Deborah Gray White explains her view by categorizing the hardships and interactions between the female slave and the environment in which the

Sally Thomas and her family were an atypical slave family in the antebellum South. Sally herself was a “quasi-free” slave, owned as property with personal benefits and liberties, by “[hiring] herself out as a laundress, a practice common among urban slaves.” The “quasi-slave” title was not uncommon in the South, where the blacks outnumbered the whites and the whites allowed the blacks to have mediocre peasantry jobs, however, they performed the job better than many whites, and allowed for them to earn money and make their own profit. All three of Sally’s son were born into bondage, Henry, James, and John. Even though their fathers were free whites, the slave title was heretical under their mother’s name

In addition to my shadowing placement and notes from lectures I have obtained information from social work journals as well as independent study both of which have led me to understand the consequence of difference, a person’s life experience due to issues of diversity may include. For instance oppression, marginalisation and alienation as well as privilege, power and acclaim.

During the years from 1914 - 1918 Australia was at constant battle all over the world fighting for the british. With battles deaths always follow. So many people say, “what did we ever gain from WW1 we lost so many people as a country”. Although we lost almost 60,000 men and 150,000 wounded or taken prisoner. After the war the British Government offered ex-servicemen free transportation to some of the colonies, 17,000 migrants arrived in Australia between 1919 and 1922. Community organisations paid for migrants to come over to Australia. Small numbers also arrived independently. It was also said that up to 300,000 men came over from britain post war to live. The British government gave an incentive to migrate over because so many people

Australia “The Lucky Country”; a stepping stone to a better life. The words of social critic Donald Horne stated in 1964 have been used to describe Australia’s wonderful culture, history and lifestyle. For many 20th century migrants this is what they only knew about the country creating an outburst of migrants arriving into Australia with the desire to seek a better life, escape poverty, war or persecution. They brought along with them a mix bag of emotions; fear and worry, happiness and joy alongside the expectations of the typical Australian life hoping to find acceptance, belonging, freedom and a promising future. However, due to the impact of many polices and historical events that have taken place in the past, the migrant experience has

Net overseas migration has doubled from 146,800 in 2005-6 to 298,900 in 2008-9 (Australian Bureau of Statistics [ABS], 2011). Migrants born overseas account for a

Marginalization, the second form of oppression, is the most common form found in the United States. However, Young enlightens us that despite the common narrative, marginalization is by no means limited to racially marked groups. She explains that “marginals” are those that cannot or will not be used by the system of labor, which means that the term is inclusive to those that are elderly, unemployed, and even mentally and physically disabled. And because of this, it is “perhaps the most dangerous form of oppression.” (pg. 53) Marginalization works by excluding people from participating in the productive activities of social life,

During the antebellum South, many Africans, who were forced migrants brought to America, were there to work for white-owners of tobacco and cotton plantations, manual labor as America expanded west, and as supplemental support of their owner’s families. Harriet Jacobs’s slave narrative supports the definition of slavery (in the South), discrimination (in the North), sexual gender as being influential to a slave’s role, the significant role of family support, and how the gender differences viewed and responded to life circumstances.

A “White Australia” policy was introduced in the early 1900’s, significantly influencing views of immigration. The common belief of society was that only people from Europe, and preferably Britain and Ireland, were considered to be ‘good enough’ for immigration to Australia. People from all other nations, particularly Asian countries, were forced to undergo the incredibly difficult challenges to move permanently to Australia. If in

Marginalization is the process whereby something or someone is pushed to the edge of a group and accorded lesser importance. This is predominantly a social phenomenon by which a minority or sub-group is excluded, and their needs or desires ignored (BusinessDictionary.com). The society exclusion or oppression of an individual.

This also leads to the next concept of situational factors and feelings revolving around the motive behind their decisions. The influence of internal feelings relating to similar situations can easily differentiate. One may feel as if they are sick of being stuck working a 9-5 but know they need to keep working harder; someone else in the same situation could easily feel the same and feel as if they are sick of being stuck in a 9-5 and want do violence to get to the top. In my opinion I believe the stigma of social equality and everyone being equal can easily feel like façade, because even if we are the same people and are in similar situations truth is we may not have the same opportunities in life. Having that injustice causes even similar people in similar situations

Intersectionality can be referred to as a sociological theory that describes multiple threats of discrimination when a person’s identity overlaps with a number of minority classes in terms of gender, age, race, health, ethnicity, and many other features (Vardeman-Winter & Tindall, 2010). In essence, intersectionality is a framework employed in conceptualizing an individual, group of people, or social problem as affected by a myriad of discriminations and disadvantages. The intersectionality theory posits that people are usually disadvantaged by multiple sources of oppression and other identity markers which do not exist independently of each other but rather informs the others creating a complex convergence of oppression

This is a parliament paper, it mentioned the current situation of Australian temporary migration, forms of temporary migration and attached some charts, provided very clear explanation.

Every individual must have experienced such sanctions like feeling left out, unwanted, or stigmatized. The American society is greatly divided in terms of economic, cultural, gender, racial-ethnic, political, and educational status lines. Disrespect and discrimination have substantial consequences, which deny individuals access to contacts, resources, and information, consigning the minorities to dangerous backyards, low quality schools, and poorly paid occupations (Silver & Miller, 2003).