Power, Social Status And Discrimination Of The Minority Groups In Society

Everyone is part of a dominant or subordinate group. Both groups are similar because they label the targeted group. However, both groups are completely different from each other. The dominant groups distinguish people who are privileged, while subordinate is for people who are underprivileged. As I reflected on my past I discovered I was part of a subordinate do to my ethnicity and dominant group because of my sexuality. Being a heterosexual Mexican women comes with some costs and benefits.

One pattern of minority and dominant group relations is genocide. In genocide the dominant group tries to destroy the minority group. One of the biggest examples of genocide in our history is when Hitler and the Nazis attempted to destroy all Jews by murdering them. Another pattern is population transfer which includes two different types. Indirect transfers refer to a dominant groups making life so miserable for members of the minority that they leave on their own. Direct transfer occurs whenever a dominant group expels a minority. Like when the U.S. government relocated Native Americans to reservations. A third

There are many inequalities in our society based on race and ethnicity. Minority consists of group that makes up then less than half the total population, and are treated differently based on their race and ethnicity. Minorities are people of color, low income, and women. To be a minority means that you are lefts with the jobs that no else wants, you have limited access to medical care, and are caught up with stress which leads to bad addictions and poor eating habits.

You are NOT limited to the groups listed as examples. Do you agree or disagree with their viewpoints? Explain. You need to describe the groups and explain the abuses and usurpations that they object to fully.

For instance, white people or people who have privilege, meaning that they have a career and a job, are privileged. On the other hand, there are a lot of disadvantaged population that won’t have the opportunity to live as their white folks. Disadvantaged population can be a minority of Whites, African-American, Hispanic and other minorities that didn’t developed the tools and skills to compete with a privileged population. For instance, the educational system is one encourages privilege and disadvantage separating the population more and more, creating a culture of acceptance and low skills as a norm among

Minority status has long since been viewed in a not-so-positive light. From the reflex many people have to lock their doors when they see a homeless person or a person of color, to stereotyping and assumptions based on institutionalized racism, to discrimination, minority status has a part to play in all of it. Similarly, many people have the idea that deaf people cannot do anything for themselves because they are “disabled”. Even though America was once hailed as a melting pot because of the diversity of its citizens, things like “you’re in America now, speak English” are said in today's America. While being defined as a minority isn’t inherently bad, it has become an excuse for some members of the majority to treat minorities as second-class citizens.

In America’s history, each race has been portrayed as inferior or inferior, because of one’s skin color, or the beliefs of a culture. Oppression In early America varied in some ethnicities. Some races didn’t even have any civil liberties at all, they were not allowed to vote, not even allowed to become professionals. This was to keep everyone that was not of the superior race below them. Even though they are classified as U.S citizens. In most areas, the ruling race is the upper white class that runs the system, and have a disproportionate amount of power. In other areas, it may not be the white race, but it is still the race that makes up the majority. The majority, who makes the laws, and/or has money, are keys to dominate over the weaker minorities that don’t have the

Imagine all your life you been surrounded with people that have the same characteristic as you. You didn't even know that you been separated into a group in which you classify in depending where you live, the color of your skin and income level. All my life I have been surrounded with latinos, the group I belong to at school, where I live, and daily activities i do. I didn't even know my race impacted my life until I went to college and explored places out of my comfort zone. Throughout history people have been separated into a specific group based on the color of their skin and how they physically look. These groups were separated into a dominant and nondominant group, which were whites the dominant group and minorities (african americans, asians, mexicans etc…) the non dominant group, but as times passes by minorities start to rebel to have equal dominance as whites. Now we have more freedom and power in this world. I am going to share experience I had when I was growing up that impacted my life being the race I am.

He threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating be in the chest, on my head… crushing me with ever more violent blows, until I was covered in blood.” (53) This shows how horribly these minority groups were treated by the more superior groups, which goes to show that society functions on the idea that one group will always be superior than the other. Our present society, in fact, also functions on that idea as well. Society today is separated into groups based on class, race, religion, political party, gender, and many other groups as well. Even though

I as a minority will forever see them the same because we have been trying for so long to get what is concerned white privilege. We want for once have white people want what we have, as much as what we want that they have. However, white privilege individuals may disagree on what I am saying, due to the fact that white individuals believe we get extra scholarships offers and government help offers. This in result creates a conflict that white individuals will never comprehend. What white people do not know is that white individuals in fact get more of these offers given to them than what a minority individual receives. This was a discussion in the course that for a second made me happy that minorities were at least being offer something

From this learner’s point of view, there could be many reason why we might resist pre-existing social structures and categories within oppressed groups, and one of them is that we tend to distinguish feature that both changed our perception of individuals and their social transformation, like being an African Americans, Mexicans, Muslim, GLBT, or minority that can affect us daily, either because of our own biases or from fear of a particular group (e.g., Iranians). We also tend to place minorities in a negative light base on income or life styles. We

The reason I think that majority groups are treated unfairly is because, some Universities, for example, have to take race into consideration in their admissions. I understand a picture above, but do not see how minority groups ended up in that position since they share the same classrooms with majority groups and have the same knowledge before applying to college. Likewise, employers might overlook the best qualified person and hire less qualified person in order to meet affirmative action requirements. The strict affirmative action, on the other hand, seems to be fair and should be used in order to avoid intentional and unintentional discrimination. I think the image above perfectly illustrates the situation when employers have to take extra

Constructed and doesn’t exist otherwise, and if human beings don’t have to be afraid of one another, then where does racism come from” (41)?.

In the early years of the United States, dominant-minority relations were shaped by the agrarian technology and the economic need to control land and labor. The agrarian era ended in the 1800s, and the U.S. has gone through two major transformations in subsistence technology since, each of which has transformed dominant-minority relations and required the creation of new structures and processes to maintain racial stratification and white privilege (Healey, p. 131). The early 1800s to the mid-1900s was the industrial revolution, where machines replaced animal and human labor. Today’s society is known as the postindustrial or deindustrialized society which

Today, a serious problem exists all over the world. Racial oppression takes place in the poorest and the richest countries, including America. Racial oppression is characterized by the majority, or the ruling race, imposing its beliefs, values, and laws on the minority, or the ruled race. In most areas, the ruling race is upper class whites that run the “system”, and have a disproportionate amount of power. In other areas, it may not be the white race, but it is still the race that is comprised of the majority, makes the laws, or has the most money. These are the keys to domination over the weaker minorities that don’t have the power to thrive under the majority’s system according to their own cultural beliefs,