Teachers are the brain and students are the body of a school. Everybody knows that the body may not function properly if the brain malfunctions. In other words, knowledge transfer from teachers to students may not take place if the teachers fail to deliver their duties. The chemistry between students and the teachers play an important role in the learning process. If teachers are the reactants, students are the products. In a chemical reaction, a catalyst is necessary to speed up the reaction. Principal is the catalyst who helps the reactant teachers to produce student products. In other words, principal should act as the sun around which the planets (teachers, students, parents and administrative staffs) rotate. Each one of us has probably felt being alienated or outcast at one point or another. Each one of us has felt that moment when we might have been treated differently or when we felt uncomfortable because we felt different from everybody else. Discrimination due to prejudice and stereotyping is one of the many issues that we must face in a culturally and socially diverse world. Understanding these concepts and the mechanisms behind these behaviors may actually help us be a step closer to solving this social disease. Nevid and Rathus (2010) define prejudice as “a preconceived attitude toward a group or person” (p. 217). Prejudice sets in when one has negative views about another even if one doesn’t have the complete details yet about a certain individual or group of
Why do you think mainstream media report on individual, interpersonal cases of racism far more than systematic and institutionalized forms of racial injustice?
America has had discrimination against minorities for a long time and it will continue to have it until people treat minorities with respect. Discrimination is when people treat minorities bad because of their skin color, ethnicity and the place they were born. For immigrants, the problems they had to arrive to America were not a good experience only by the struggle to gain acceptance among the population. Most immigrants came to the U.S. to have a better life and give education to their children. Almost all immigrants have experienced discrimination at some point in their life and even some are still experiencing it today. Most Latinos don’t have a choice but to deal with it because they know they are illegal and they can’t say anything
Recently I cared for a female resident from Germany and although she had lived here for many years, her English was very broken. To help me overcome the language barrier I used; Picture Flash Cards, Flash Cards with German and English phrases on them, non-verbal gestures and an English/German dictionary. By using these different methods of communication I was able to; Encourage and support her to participate in social activities, share information about her well-being and her likes and dislikes with my co-workers and encourage and support her to keep her independence. By doing these simple things and using the right communication methods enabled her to keep her independence and allowed her
There are lots of potential effects related to discrimination. It includes things like disempowerment, low self-esteem and self-identity and also marginalisation. I am now going to explain these effects and connect them with a case study.
Systemic racism occurs when policies and practices exist is institutions that discriminates against and excludes one group or exclusively fosters another. The system is setup so that it doesn't need individuals to discriminate themselves because it is structured so that discrimination is omnipresent. Systemic racism is responsible for the inequity of schools between poor minority neighborhoods and rich white neighborhoods, because it puts restraints on their ability to learn and what they learn, which then hinders their ability to attain equal status.
Most people in today’s society may believe that prejudice and discrimination mean the same thing and most people may not pay attention to the fact that there is a huge difference between the two terms. The main difference between these terms is, prejudice is a negative idea about a certain group of people or people of a particular race. The person usually doesn’t act on the idea, they mainly just keep it to themselves. Most would describe it as being a “pre-judgement”. Discrimination, on the other hand, is far much worse than just being prejudice. Discrimination is prejudice put into action/practice. This involves treating people harmfully and disrespecting them as an individual just because they don’t look like you or because they belong to a specific group of people. There are three different forms of discrimination and they are: Individual Discrimination, Statistical Discrimination, and Institutional Discrimination. Both of these terms falls under the category, racism. Racism is the most talked about thing in the United States today. I completely disagree with the term “racism” as a whole and I completely disagree that it is being taught. Blacks and whites of the United States should always be against racism. Racism is not something that we are born with--it is something that we are taught and honestly society, parents, teachers, and movies play a big role in it. Some can teach it the right way and some can teach it the wrong way, and this is where we went wrong in
Today’s population of American is made up of people who came from variety of countries with a very different economic, religious and social backgrounds. We are all have right to privately practice our own religions or not practice at all. Racism and religion are issues that were brought to our society not long time ago. On the example of story of “America can’t breathe” by Luiza Ch. Savage and “Islamophobia” by Laila Lalami we can clearly see that discrimination exists and it makes America unhealthy. What events and issues formed the basis that racism and discrimination are the pressing problems in nowadays?
“Discrimination: treating a person or group differently when the reason is not relevant”(Kaye and Thomson). A double standard is created when a rule or regulation does not fairly apply to all groups. An example of this is racism’s double standard that has been created while trying to amend to unfairness created by racism. These double standard are hostile to attempts of true equality due to the harm it causes to the media/justice system create reverse discrimination, and affect college admissions unfairly.
We have discussed so far this week the obvious ways in which discrimination can affect various groups within a society. However, what if there was a form of discrimination that is buried deep within an institution that may not appear to be discriminatory to the naked eye? This particular form is known as institutional discrimination. McNamara and Burns (2009) stated that it is “particularly distasteful because it is the type of mistreatment of certain groups whereby the people engaging in the behavior do not realize they are doing it” (p.14). This type of discrimination can be quite challenging to depict as it is embedded in every type of institution whether one believes it to be true or not. You may find yourself wondering that if rules
We are all members of the human race and discrimination is an injustice; we must do something about it. For example, we can help who ever needs our help no matter what they look like. Starving people in our own country need food and medicine to live and we can give that to them even though they might look different than us, and even though they might have different skin than us. Color or race shouldn't stop us from saving someone's lives and caring for the sick and poor. Another example of discrimination in our world, is how some people don't get the same things as someone else because they look different. Even though someone looks different, it doesn't mean that they are different in a bad way and they shouldn't be put in the back of the kitchen
The United States has a long history of discrimination and marginalization towards distinguishable minorities. For instance, America’s past of enslaving African Americans. Our country today, is considered to some as one of the world’s largest melting pots, where a variety of culturally diverse individuals are integrated into a collective community. According to statistics regarding immigration policy, 41.3 million immigrants were living in the US, in 2013. But our nation has yet to integrate its diversity into one bonding community. That said marginalization and discrimination can be cohesively manifested by their role in America’s current poverty situation. The United States’ poverty
Prejudice is the negative attitude based on false generalizations about members of different racial and ethnic groups. From prejudice, discrimination is born. We all are guilty of discriminating other people, but one can only speculate the factors that bring about this hatred towards one another. Although a single cause cannot account for the presence of racism, factors such as socialization, self-justification, and competition are a few human attributes that lead to acts of racial discrimination.
Discrimination in the workplace occurs when an employee experiences harsh or unfair treatment due to their race, religion, national origin, disabled or veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Discrimination is one of the biggest problems people face in the workplace and it must be dealt with forcefully.
Discrimination within the workplace: An insight into the experience of minority ethnic, race and age employees at the Turkish Airlines.
“Discrimination is a likely occurrence during the recruitment process.” Discuss this statement in relation to the human resource practices and the issues relating to personality, perceptions and values of managers.