Phenomenon: Prejudice And Racism In The United States

America faces many problems and issues. The three I have chosen to write about today are racism, North Korea seems to be getting worse as time goes on. Racism is spreading across America. Drugs are killing more and more people every day.

The United States of America has a deep and rich history. Unfortunately, this history has been tainted by racism and intolerance. For a long time in this country, minorities have been viewed as less than other Americans. Like the book, Mississippi Trial, 1955 shows, racism affects many areas of people life. Their have been many attempts to change this way of thinking. Many different civil rights movements have taken place to get equal rights for everyone. However, the United States still suffers from a race problem. What cause racism? In the article, Breaking Down Prejudices: Racism in America: Past and Present, the author Kristian Lazaridi, states the reasons for racism. She states that “According to Aronson (1998) there are four basic reasons

In this modern world, prejudice is still a universal problem we still have yet to overcome. Although it is true that our society is much less prejudiced than it was 40-50 years ago, we are still struggling to create racial harmony in a world that is so diverse in terms of racial group, sexual orientations, ethnicity, nationality, religions, and so on. I think the core of prejudice comes from stereotyping, which is the generalization of motives, characteristics, or behavior to an entire group of people. In the world where media propaganda is ubiquitous, often times most stereotypes are not formed on valid experiences, instead they are based on images publicized by the mass media, or even created within our heads after seeing and hearing examples from many different sources, like movies, or even hearsay. Stereotyping is more powerful than we think, because it allows those false pictures to control our thinking that leads us to assign uniform characteristics to any person in a group, without consideration of the actual difference between members of that particular group.

An American is a man, a woman, a child who came to the U.S. and started to grow and flourish to become the men and women that feel pride for their country and the freedoms they have through salutes to the country and leaving behind their past heritage to become a citizen of the U.S. We as Americans have very well tried to become who we are today by not being prejudice and not being without freedoms. We strive to be the best we can by saying our pledge of allegiances and our doing as much as we can for our country. Just as my grandfather does every morning by saluting of the flag always hanging in his yard up high.

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.

Prejudice it is word not know by many children of America. For it means that we have judged before knowing or in other words judged a book by its cover. This word is used to much, I believe, some use it in good ways others in terrible.

Racism is the trend of thought, or way of thinking, which attaches great importance to the notion of the existence of separate human races and superiority of races that are usually associated with inherited physical characteristics or cultural events. Racism is not a scientific theory, but a set of preconceived opinions they value the biological differences between humans, attributing superiority to some according to racial roots. Even in such ethnically diverse country as the United States, racism continues evident against people of different ethnic traits and skin color. According to Steinberg (Steinberg, 1995), racial discrimination has been the most important cause of inequality between whites and blacks in the U.S. Because of that, minorities in American society have been fighting over years for equal rights and respect, starting with the civil rights movement in 1960s. Also, public policies implemented since 1964 in the United States have been instrumental in reducing economic inequality between blacks and whites, such as the affirmative action, a federal program that tries to include minority groups by providing jobs and educational opportunities (Taylor, 1994). From this perspective, does racism still play a dominant role in American values and American society? If so, what are the consequences of this racism that still remain in American society? What is the impact of the Barack Obama presidency on the unending fight against racism in this country?

Fat people are funny. If you wear Crocs means that you are a complete dork. If you are pretty, you are smart, and if you are ugly you are stupid. Little old ladies that have a lot of cats are nice. These are examples of prejudice. It is in schools, on the radio, and on TV. Prejudice is what we think of people or things just because other people look like or act like that. Prejudice is a preconceived idea that is in no way based on a reason or actual experience or evidence. Prejudice is a major problem for many people in the United States and many other places in the world, but the more you know about prejudice, the easier it is to identify and stop it.

Racism has shaped societies since the beginning of time, as far back as the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Even then, people living in the land of Goshen were subjugated to racism because of their differences. From Hitler and the Nazis to the Southern American slave owners, prejudice of one race against another has resulted in atrocities. Racism has shaped the form of our present day societies. Racism will likely never be completely removed from our society it will always exist. However, in an effort to counteract the disease of racism, modern-day societies have drafted and enacted legislation for the sole purpose of ensuring that people treat each other with respect and dignity allowing one another their inalienable right to their

Strong racism, disrespect and condescending sight towards black people, immigrants or any other race apart from white´s was very common in the United states during the sixties. The society had wide gaps and divisions between most of all black and white people, but also between men and women, rich and poor to name a few. There was rules that only the black people had to follow, shops and buses. The living conditions were bad, a lot of black people were poor due to bad jobs and living arrangements.

In present society, the assumption that racism or similar prejudice persists is valid and accepted. Regardless, how far does racism extend? Imagine if it were fact that people of color receive less privilege than white people in job applications. Does this seem a little extreme? The Massachusetts Institute of Technology proved the incident is far from ‘extreme’. After analyzing data from a study, researchers noticed applications involving typical ethnic names received 50% less callbacks than applications involving typical white names. This incident alone suggests racism to this extent is far from extreme or radical; however, the term ‘radical’ previously meant something far different from its current meaning.

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’.

After living in a place like Bend Oregon for 18 years I haven’t ever noticed a difference between blacks and whites. Bend has been said to be “one of the whitest places to live”, yet I never viewed a city by its race. Being racist to me meant that it was the whites who had a problem with the blacks and whites didn’t want anything to do with blacks. I hadn’t actually seen racism in action from anyone here. Now, after watching the film Crash and reading the essays “Blinded by the White: Crime, Race and Denial at Columbine High” written by Tim Wise and “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” written by McIntosh, my understanding of race, diversity, and communications have changed.

In the United State of America, racism is part of our cultural cloth. It's in the air that we breathe everyday. The sad part about is that i believe that some may know when their racial comments and others could get it from their family background and their so use to that they don’t even know they're being racist. Institutional racism is a strong system of privileges and powers that is based on race. Those powerful structures typically start as innocent interactions that is suppose to be helping all races but in the end will only be helping one. For instance, people tend to move to different areas than the areas you will typically see them in just for great schools, living conditions, great teachers, great paying jobs, maybe even for greater

Whites seemingly have always thought they were somehow superior to colored people. Whites in England conquered half the world just to show how powerful they were. Spaniards used Native Americans as slaves to mine gold in the early days of Mexico. America relied on slaves to farm for them or perform household chores. After slavery was abolished in most countries, racism prevailed. In the United States whites established the “Separate but Equal” idea. For example, whites may have had a very nice drinking fountain, next to it there would be a black drinking fountain that barely worked. Even today, racism can be seen everyday. White kids teasing colored kids. A white man getting hired at a workplace before a black