Melting Pot Discrimination

Racial prejudice toward minority groups has been a problem throughout all of history. While overt racism and prejudice may be diminished from the days of our dark past, covert racism is very much alive. Society loves to embellish on how far the country has come in the fight against racial prejudice by highlighting significant events such as having the first black president. Yet there are still too many instances of subtle racism. In 2011, there were almost 700,000 incidents of stop and frisk policing in New York. Nine out of ten of these incidents involved blacks or Hispanics, which is ridiculous because blacks make up less than a quarter of the New York Population (Bobo 2013). Prejudice causes unfair treatment to innocent people. Everyone should be treated the same and given the same amount of respect. Continuing the fight towards an unprejudiced world has so many benefits including making sure everyone feels safe and respected in society and the possibility to learn from other ethnic groups. A world without prejudice would be a much more effective world with more time spent on making life better for all instead of violence and hate. Government officials and psychologists are trying to advertise how being in contact with other ethnic groups has reduced prejudice. Many psychologists are already praising contact theory research for its contribution toward world peace and its efforts against prejudice (Dixon, Tropp, Durrheim, and Tredoux 2010). However, the two empirical

“What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others,” as once said by Mexican novelist, Carlos Fuentes. Many Mexicans come to the United States as immigrants for better opportunities. The amount of work and dedication we put into our jobs is what we indigenous people are best known for. However, the general population thinks of us Mexicans as unschooled human beings. Non-immigrants judge us for being who we are, but in reality we contribute very much to the world.

The example is always black. A statement that pretty much summed up what 's wrong with America today. Every time you turn on the news, you see something negative about minorities. The white population commits the same crimes and the minorities, but the minorities are I totally agree with Marc Lamont Hill 's views on the racism that still exists in the world. Minorities are unfairly targeted on a regular basis. Whether they are unfairly treated in the workplace,school systems, or by the police department, it seems to be getting worse every day. The recent rash of police shooting of unarmed minorities is clear evidence of this.

If one were to look at the current laws, that are on the books in the USA; one could definitely say, that the USA does not discriminate against any race, whatsoever. There are ‘individuals’ who do discriminate; but the State - ‘does not’.

Multicultural discrimination is a set of unique experience of racial discrimination and prejudice due to having a mixed racial background. Viewed as a risk factor (Giamo, Schmitt, & Outten,2012), multiracial discrimination can include a wide range of stressful experiences from denial or rejection of their multiracial identity from strangers and family members (Shih & Sanchez,2005) to being teased or pressured to act or choose one of their racial backgrounds (Buckley & Carter, 2004). Qualitative studies illustrate how these unique racial stressors can often lead to feelings of hurt, anger, guilt, and shame (Buckley & Carter, 2004; son, 2012; Miville et al., 2005). Besides that, other impact of discrimination on individuals of multicultural backgrounds include experiencing unique forms of discrimination, being marginalized, claiming different identities, and feeling accepted and affirmed in multiple racial and cultural communities (de Anda & Riddel, 1991; Guevarra, 2012; Jackson, 2009, 2012; Miville, Constantine, Baysden, & So-Lloyd, 2005).

Today I will be talking about how prejudice and discrimination affected the development of sociology in America in the late 19th century and early 20th century. In the late 19th century women didn't have the same rights as men. When it came to providing for the family only the men could work outside the home. Women were expected to stay home, cook, clean, make clothing for the family, and take fare of the children. Segregation went on in the 19th century as well. No African Americans were allowed at the same place or the times as a caucasian person. Because this was going on in this century attending school, churches, restaurants, concerts and many other places caused problems with socializing together. This also affected some of the people

“[People] may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but [they] all belong to one human race.”- Kofi Annan

The United States of America is an ethnically and racially diverse country. In 2016, The United States Census Bureau reported an estimate of 323,127,513 people making up for the United States population ("Population estimates, July 1, 2016, (V2016)"). Though the United States is composed of a diverse population, discrimination widely exists. Discrimination is defined as treating someone unfavorably because he or she is of a certain race or his or her personal characteristics reflect a particular race ("Race/Color Discrimination"). Discrimination has existed in American Culture since slavery began and still exists in the health care system today, specifically within minority groups: African Americans/Blacks and Hispanics. Discrimination

Over the years the United States' government has continuously expressed their role as superpower to spread its military reach and idea of democracy throughout the world. The government has chosen to put U.S. troops on foreign soil to protect the rights of citizens in Allied countries. The United States has promoted itself as the beacon of freedom and equality for all citizens, men and women. So when thinking about women's rights in the United States, it can be easy to believe that we are the supreme example. However, according to the first map and topic in The Atlas of Women in the World, “States Against Discrimination,” the United States can be grouped

So here are the facts: According to national poll commissioned by the Episcopal Church 98% of Americans feel that there is some type of discrimination still alive in America today. 7/10 Americans feel that African Americans are directly discriminated against. But it can happen to anyone whichever race. Journal Science states that “Many people unconsciously harbor racist attitudes. But is that an excuse for hostility?

The paradox basically states that one person can't change how the world is without the support from everybody else. The textbook example is that one leaf has no importance. It will come and die, but it's important for the tree to survive. Relating to diversity, a single person can stand up to his friends and tell them not to discriminate. It might not seem as a major step to end discrimination but his involvement was important. For things to change, it requires many people to participate. For example, when electing the U.S. president, one vote doesn't matter but they do when they are combined. People go to rallies supporting race, LGBT, gender equality. One person presence might not make a difference but they're presence still

According to Hallahan, Kauffman, & Pullen (2015) there isn’t a known culture that doesn’t discriminate in some way. For example, Australia has a history of discriminating against the Aboriginal people that are native to Australia. Correspondingly, South Africa had an apartheid for decades that the country is still dealing with the consequences of. Even the United State of America that prides itself on being the melting pot of the world have a history of discriminating against different cultures. In fact, the United States was settled by people that where running away from religious discrimination. However, they turned around and discriminated against the native Americans that they found here.

It is popularly believed that America is the biggest and most famous melting pot in the world. American history began with waves of immigrants bringing their own traditions, and culture to a new country. America is not the only country that is known as a melting pot, other countries like Russia are also practicing the melting pot; however, America is the only place that has such a diverse population and manages to make it work. Social media around the world, especially public relations of the American government has been working hard for years to make a uniform state that works equally for everybody, without taking in to consideration who they are or where they came from. However, since the beginning of that theory, we have seen a lot of prejudice between social, religious, and national aspects around the world. Let’s us consider whether or not the melting pot truly works in both countries or if it is just a myth?

Ethnicity and race go hand in hand. You can either be discriminated against or you don’t. It appears to be very common, but the difference is that it was never vocalized. If the issue was not vocalized, how could one ever even know? Well, for me race did not seem like such a big deal. Growing up in Sayreville, then moving to Matawan half-way through middle school, there was diversity. There never seemed to be such a difference in the way people spoke or treated each other. Discrimination was never talked about because it did not seem to happen in our community. Looking back at the middle school years, everyone seemed to be getting into their own groups of friends, yet it was never separated by race or ethnicity. It was separated more

Discrimination comes in many forms. Discrimination and diversity are closely linked considering the reasons behind discrimination are what makes up the definition of diversity. Not only is discrimination made against gender, race, and religion, but it is also made of age, disabilities, appearance and in a lot of cases, women who are pregnant too. This is very much a reality for many employers. There are laws protecting acts of discrimination. This topic is so sensitive, that many employers implement diversity and discrimination into their mission statements. Many companies make it their practice to host training sessions to prevent discrimination from happening, then there are many companies who can’t afford such training for their