Negative Effects Of Globalization On African American Culture

Music is a creative art form that allows the artist to construct something that expresses a purpose. It evolves over time and changes as the world changes, taking on many different motivations behind the melody and lyrics. In today’s society, anger, oppression, racism, and negative opinions rule the media and popular culture. I believe that African Americans need to show their self worth and not let white people hold them back. With the music in white culture often mocking African American culture and portraying negative stereotypes, African Americans have to find ways to gain respect. In acknowledgement of the negative portrayal of their culture, African Americans respond by creating songs and videos that express their pride in their culture and heritage, react to white oppression, and communicate their independence.

While Kylie Jenner’s faux dreadlocks for her ‘rebel-themed’ Teen Vogue photoshoot were described as beautiful, edgy, and raw by various style magazines, Zendaya Coleman’s dreadlocks she wore on the Oscars red carpet were described as making her look like she “smells like patchouli oil. Or, weed," by Fashion Police host Giuliana Rancic. America loves to appropriate black culture, even when black people themselves, don’t receive the same amount of love from America. From box braids to dashikis, black culture has been stolen by America and used for their own personal gain, disregarding the historical context and meaning of these traditions or blatantly perpetuating stereotypes.

This event forever changed the face of the Modern World. The Atlantic Slave Trade was

* The main focus of many teen dramas is sex, with each episode containing countless verbal and visual references to sexual activity. These highly sexualized portrayals of relationships bear little resemblance to the real lives of teens—and are generally not balanced by clear messages about safe and healthy attitudes towards sex.

The African American slave influence in the beginnings of American culture and technology and Native Americans of the North American Continent were significant in creating America. By revealing the different ways this achieved, we can see the work and techniques that drove the new country and how this created by the political, as well as ideological ramifications of their labors. With all of these contributions to the new country of the United States, we see that the formation of the world power built on the principles that the early settlers created in their work.

As some may say, “If you’re light, you’re alright. If you’re brown, stick around. And if you’re Black, get to the back.” Colorism has become a popular practice in the African American culture. The praise for being fair­skinned is often seen as being a light­hearted compliment that degrades the other half of the spectrum. In the article, “Black Identity” by Kathy Russell, Russell researches and proves how the negative effects of colorism is ever present in the African American culture and is ingrained into their youth. Colorism is not a new debatable topic but the effects of such continues to evolve. Colorism in the African American Community, specifically, needs to be addressed and dealt with so that they may unite as a community with the purpose of understanding how the present is in correlation with the past, decrease the popularity of color­based self­hate within the African American community so they may eradicate the racial issues present in the judicial system, and teach African American youth to fight against colorism and its negative effects so that they can create positive, proud future for the African American community.

Of course, those Korean immigrants were only ‘fighting’ for their own economic survival in America, too. Yet the assertion was understandable: during the 1970s and 1980s, deindustrialization, which brought unemployment to the middle class, would only exacerbate the conditions of Los Angeles’ most impoverished. The few remaining jobs it left to the slums had been seized and hoarded by Korean immigrants. In the reality of the situation, however, African Americans, despite their efforts and an ongoing movement for civil rights, were simply incapable of achieving the same level of entrepreneurial success of Korean Americans during this time period. The reasons for their shortcomings in Koreatown, in addition to lacking higher education and professional job experience many Korean immigrants had at their disposal, were primarily due to the deeply ingrained institution of prejudice against African Americans. African Americans were helplessly vulnerable to racism—regardless of how hard they worked, they would struggle to compete with other minority groups.

From the birth of the United States of America until the mid 1800’s many citizens owned African slaves. Over two hundred years white men owned and dominated these africans. These Africans did not have any land but this is still a form of imperialism. African Americans were not equal in the white man's eyes, they weren’t humans they were merely property, they were pets more or less. This could easily be described as skin tone imperialism. Even though slavery was abolished in the 1860’s African Americans were still oppressed by the white man. African Americans were still not seen as equal, they could not dine in the same room or more common the same restaurant as white people, they had to use “colored” bathrooms, “colored” swimming pools, segregated

In your opinion, how does the election of Barrack Obama to president influence the way society will understand African-American culture?

Although African Americans make up merely fourteen percent of the U.S. population, thirty-seven percent of people who are homeless are African Americans. Forty-two percent of African American children are educated in all high-poverty schools. In 2012, the mean critical reading SAT score for college accepted students was 428 for African Americans and 527 for whites. For mathematics, it was 428 for African Americans and 536 for whites. For writing it was 417 for African Americans and 515 for whites (National Center for Educational Statistics). These staggering data manage to encompass just a few of the issues that are prevalent among African Americans in the United States. However, people may find themselves wondering how these figures came to be; who is responsible and what can be done? Many will begin turning to stereotypes for justification of this issue: African Americans are lazy, African Americans are criminals, African Americans are indifferent towards education. Indeed, that shallow assumption can be made made based on sole observation, but further research unveils an extraordinarily different conclusion. In order to understand this, one must dig deep into the history books and study the turbulent past of African Americans. Doing so, I was able to form a deduction that shows the origin of so many issues that the African American community is pressed with. African Americans experience the ramifications of their pasts everyday through the effects of denied access to

Immigrants in the U.S have always experienced plenty of hate, due to the dysfunctions in American society. In the American society we encounter many dysfunctions such as people with fear, ignorance and people that feel the need to have or maintain all the power in society. Fear, ignorance, and obsession of power are all things that appear in the dark history of the United States.

In this respect, youth have not been able to take good advantage of the bountiful resources that Cook, County Chicago has to offer. It appears that youth in this community, are failures in academia because they lack effective coping mechanisms to pull themselves together during difficult times. There are always safety nets for these youth to be cushioned by, although they are easily lured into a lifestyle of crime.

creating their own brand and although the target audience may not be African-American consumers, there has been a correlation established between the two. This has decreased the affluence gap that never seemed to shorten between whites and blacks. With there not being any African-Americans in any of the professional sport teams available in America, only the white players received the financial benefits of participating in sports.

Child brides are a little voiced problem that occur around the world. Fourteen million girls become child brides every year, a number that is increasing due to the growing populations of countries where child marriage is common (Fisher). I chose to focus on child brides specifically in Africa and the Middle East due to the high instances of child marriages in those parts of the world. In my research I also found that child brides are very common in South Asia and South America as well. In Niger, Chad, Mali, Bangladesh, Guinea, Central African Republic, Mozambique, and Nepal over half of girls are married before they turn eighteen (Fisher).This is largely due to traditional tribal practices, cultural norms, and an overall lack of education.

The governments of the developing world encourage and utilize the sex trade industry as a progress strategy to repay millions of dollars of debt to international corporations. There are also economic incentives for the governments of both the exporting and importing countries to ignore the trafficking in women, and the governments are relatively uninterested in the women’s well-being.