Institutional Racism

The poor health position of Indigenous Australians is a contemporary reflection of their historical treatment as Australia’s traditional owners. This treatment has led to Indigenous Australians experiencing social disadvantages, significantly low socio-economic status, dispossession, poverty and powerlessness as a direct result of the institutionalised racism inherent in contemporary Australian society.

Further, low income, unemployment, racism, lack of education further deteriorate their quality-of-life and well-being (Carson, Dunbar, Chenhall, & Bailie, 2007). Therefore “closing the gap” on indigenous disadvantage is crucial for archive equality in life expectancy, health status, education and employment between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians (Black & Richards, 2009).

Do you ever believe that you have been a victim to a microaggression and there was nothing ever done about it? A victim of institutional racism that made you feel doleful and surly? Institutional racism happens a lot, but not as much as microaggressions, but a lot of people wonder why they get this type of vibe from white supremacist. These are the same people in the same country, with the same daily schedule but somehow they judge people based on their skin color. Some reason you aren’t allowed to lead this country if you are any other skin than white. There's a lot of racism in America, and a lot of people really wonder will the microaggressions, microinsults, the institutional racism will ever stop. People look at our president Donald J. Trump with his campaign of “Make America Great Again” does he mean the bad times for the African Americans? The bad times, for the Asian Americans? Do white people in general categorize all cultures/ ethnicities other than white as minorities? There are two articles that come together, to grow on this idea, to answer the questions above and to explain in full detail. Both of these articles, compare on what and how plenty of “minorities” feel in America. The speech essay “Analyzing Some Thoughts On Mercy” and the argumentative essay “6 Reasons We Need to Dismantle the Model Minority Myth of Those ‘Hard-Working ‘ Asians” by Ross Gay and Rachel Kuo deal with the problem with racism shown by white supremacy. Through these texts the

1) Racism can be manifested in many forms, including poverty, housing problems, underemployment, unemployment, wage differences, lowered educational opportunities, high crime rates, and welfare dependency. What are the causes of racism. Describe the primary cause of individual and institutional racism. How are these factors dealt with by society?

Explain how institutional racism could result in internalized oppression for members of marginalized populations. Provide examples relevant to a specific minority group, based on the chapters you selected.

This paper focuses disparities and if racism has any influence on treatments given by healthcare providers. The results of the study showed that of the 37 cases tested, 26 of them showed slightly significant evidence of racist beliefs. One of the more confusing aspects of this paper was that I didn’t understand how the researchers measured racism. I felt that measuring racism was an almost daunting task as there is an element of human subjectivism. Furthermore, a better are of study would have been to analyze the geographic influence on disparities. Similar to what we learned in class, disparities often occur because people of a particular region do not have direct access to healthcare. Overall, I felt that this paper had numerous statistics about how and why racism plays a role in disparities, but the results were rather ambiguous in my eyes.

Racism can affect an individual’s mental health and well-being (Hyman, 2009). In Canada, visible minorities and immigrants who experience discrimination and unfair treatment are more likely to experience emotional/mental problems that manifest as feelings of sadness, depression, and loneliness (De Maio & Kemp, 2010). Moreover, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and low self-esteem are a few mental health conditions that have been linked to racialized immigrants in Canada (Nestel, 2012). For example, Afghan immigrant youth in Canada can experience low self-esteem, fear, and anxiety due to regular racism and Islamophobia (Nestel, 2012). More specifically in BC, there is evidence that racial discrimination against immigrant parents can have negative effects on

Institutional racism is nothing new to the political landscape and environment of the United States of America. Racism is a system of oppression based on race that creates advantages and disadvantages among groups of people. Racism includes the beliefs, practices, laws, customs, and social arrangements that systematically burden, disadvantage, devalue or render inferior members of one racial group in relation to another in a society. Racism is based on the belief on innate superiority of one race over another given to us courtesy of essentialism. The beliefs, attitudes, and actions of individuals, cultural norms, and the systematic institutional structures and practices of society support racism and continue its operation in U.S. society.

“One Size Fits All?” is the question posed in the title of the journal. This question relates to the problem of how health care professionals discursively frame cultural difference in their professional health accounts of providing cancer care to Aboriginal people and how health care professionals predominantly use Western ways of cancer care to all people disregarding their cultural differences, which then ignores different cultural approaches to cancer care. In other

It is well established that Indigenous Australian’s have a lower state of health and wellbeing than non-Indigenous people (Paradies, Harries, and Anderson, 2008). Aboriginal people have a diverse culture with a rich and compelling history and the impact of colonisation, legislation and the stolen generation has created significant hardships for Indigenous Australians, putting them as the most disadvantaged group (Paradies, Harries, and Anderson, 2008). It is known that their life expectancy is seventeen years less than other Australians.

There is a clear relationship between the social disadvantages experienced by Indigenous people and their current health status. These social disadvantages lead to a number of critical health issues. In Australia 2.5 per cent of the population is made up of Indigenous people. Within this population only 3% are 65 years of age or older, whereas 16.3% of the Australian population is over 65. (Australian Bureau of Statistics. 2012).

Racism is a problem among the ethnic population health care. Author Williams (2012) pointed out racism in his article for why there have miles to go before racial inequalities

The first way of determining institutional racism is how certain race of people are treated. Some institutional have a set standard for different races, for example, Whites,Blacks, Hispanics, Asian and Jews, etc. The government, banks and the court have institutional racism which is apparent is certain situations. Organization can lean toward hiring more whites than blacks and viscera. There have been some organization that hired all whites and there's no black's in certain departments. Other racial of individual apply for positions and are not hired. As a result, the applicant does know why in some case why he or she was denied. The strengths of working toward institutional cultural competency is together each person can learn and gain knowledge

America is a melting pot if there ever was one, the United States is one of the most diverse countries in the world and as such, racial issues has been and continues to be a relevant topic. The term institutional discrimination was first coined in the 1960's during the peak of the civil rights movement. Institutional discrimination moves away from the prejudice-causes- discrimination model which expressed immediate effects of discrimination rather than the cumulative effects such as lost jobs, lost housing opportunities and immediate effects of discrimination on individuals and families. Even though the term institutionalized racism was coined during the 1960's, the beginning of institutionalized racism in America comes from the imperial expansion of European powers overseas. The interest theory gives sociologists a way at understanding how this sort of racism came into fruition, " Interest theory suggests that discrimination can be shaped by desire for social, economic, or political gain. Such motivation need not be linked to a prejudiced view of a minority outgroup" (Feagin and Eckberg 7). For this theory it really isn't the fact that an individual looked different, but the misconception on how someone looks to motivate them to treat them as a lower class in thus, believe they can be taken advantage of.

This report will look at the effects of racism and the mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Australian healthcare system.