Essay On Othering

In South Africa, AIDS is one of the top causes of death. South Africa has the biggest AIDS/HIV epidemic in the world because of violence against women, poverty, and lack of education. Given this, “Africans account for nearly 70% of those who live with HIV and are dying of AIDS” (Morgenstern, Dr. Michael).

Many individuals have this malnourished ideal that HIV/AIDS is a disease based on race. “AIDS; which has ravaged minority community in disproportionately large numbers, must be viewed as racial issue, the national commission member on AIDS said yesterday” (Priest). Years ago Yale University law professor Harlon Dalton said this about HIV/AIDS, “We cannot approach the AIDS problem in a color blind fashion” (Priest). With this being said we need to stop pointing fingers at blacks’ for the disproportionate factor of HIV in this country. And also stop pointing fingers at black homosexuals.

All throughout time people have been “the other.” Pratt refers to the other as being “Someone who is perceived by the dominant culture as not belonging, as they have been

Othering, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary is, “the perception or representation of a person or a group of people as fundamentally alien from another, frequently more powerful, group.” (“Home: Oxford English Dictionary,” 2017). Therefore, in my opinion, the practice of Othering in this article is the exclusion of persons who do not fit the norm of the social group [African descent].

Did you know “AIDS is the leading cause of death in Africa” (Quinn, online). Twenty percent of Africa’s population has died from AIDS. Poverty is a big problem in Africa. Men have been forced to become migrant workers in urban areas. And antiretroviral treatment at this time is not available to African people. AIDS is a big problem in Africa today that is now requiring help from the world.

The world as a whole should be mortified by what is happening in Sub-Saharan Africa. In places like Swaziland, Botswana, Lesotho poverty, crime and systematic corruption are the tinder for the fire that is the HIV epidemic in Africa.

Popular culture and mainstream media offer misleading and erroneous explanations for drastic dissimilar impact of HIV/AIDS in minority groups. One

Consequently, there have been studies that concentrate on current implications of Black medical suspicion in the scope of HIV and AIDS, particularly when investigating conspiracy theories and misconceptions about HIV and AIDS that exist within Black populations versus non-Black populations. As investigated by Dr. Laura Bogart and Dr. Sheryl Thorburn (2005), there is speculation within the medical community that HIV and AIDS conspiracies act as active barriers to HIV prevention within African American populations. A telephone survey of a random sample of 500 African Americans aged 15-44 was conducted and used to collect data on beliefs towards AIDS. The results of the survey showed that a substantial proportion of the participants believed HIV/AIDS conspiracy theories. Men were found to have more negative perceptions of condom use as well, with the greatest proportion of participants believing that the government withholds cures for AIDS; some participants went as far as believing that doctors put HIV into condoms to infect more people for

Since it is a disease contracted on one’s own, it is oftentimes seen as the fault of the person living with HIV or AIDS, therefore causing others to feel as though they should not be held responsible for such accomodation. Furthermore, there is a strong correlation between the stigma of HIV and other marginalized groups, such as queer and people of color. For a long period of time there was a general misconstrued idea that this disease only affected gay men or those who were economically disadvantaged and seen negatively, including minority groups.

All throughout time people have been “the other.” Pratt refers to the other as being “Someone who is perceived by the dominant culture as not belonging, as they have been

In the essay “Bushmeat and politics of Disgust”, Mike McGovern portrays a distorted view of West African culture. McGovern evaluates a reporter of Vice Media in the coverage of the Ebola Widespread. The reporter’s coverage includes how Ebola is contained in Exotic animals, which is then consumed by west Africans triggering a pandemic that kills them by “causing their internal organs to liquefy” (McGovern 2014). McGovern also talks about how the Vice’s coverage criticizes west African culture through the feelings of disgust of consuming monkeys and bats while American game does not harvest the same feelings when they consumed animals such as boar, wild birds and tortoises. McGovern also explains the term “Bushmeat” in his writings as a term

In the beginning, the group was civilized and rationally chose a leader, worrier, gathers, hunters and builders. Their problems though began in democracy and impulse thinking. So as time went on, their social structure began to collapse and chaos reigned. A more tribal instinct shown through and they became more willing to get what they needed both diplomatically and untruthfully.

Nohemi Perea Task2/LCT1 8/01/2012 An individual labeled as the Other is different and does not fit in. The Other is “perceived as lacking essential characteristics possessed by the group, the Other is almost always seen as lesser or inferior being and is treated accordingly” (The Other, 2009). A group sets guidelines and if a person does not meet them they will not be accepted as “normal”. Otherness to a group represents awkwardness. Although each person does have its own unique characteristics to prevent from being labeled as the Other you must possess common characteristics within a group. I read “This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix, Arizona” written by Sherman Alexie. It is about a boy named Victor who lives on an Indian Reservation

The phenomenon of the sugar daddy culture is growing in South Africa, following the discovery that 28% of South African schoolgirls are HIV-positive, whereas only 4% of the boys were identified with the infection (Smith, 2013). According to the

The history in how HIV and AIDS in South Africa occurred is one of the most controversial of any country. There have been many instances where the disease has spread rapidly across the country due to lack of action and harmful interference, conflict between politicians, HIV and AIDS organisations and scientists. The consequences of a slow and interrupted response are still being felt to this very day. Although some groups of society are more at risk then others, South Africa HIV and AIDS epidemic affects people from all sectors. It is said HIV in South Africa occurred due to gay men. Two white homosexual men in 1982 were diagnosed with HIV, both whom were flight stewards. In 1989, a study was reported displaying