Prejudice And Discrimination

My childhood is filled with pleasant memories because my parents wanted better for me. They wanted more from me than to be that stereotypical “drop out” that would get me no where in life. I am an a regular student and I graduated high school class. I took my general ED courses, I was student body treasurer of the leadership class and a member of the Take Action Campaign. I'm attending a good community college and am in the AB540 club. I play different sports and am an active member of the community through The EduCare Foundation. I did everything right, the good way, the “normal” way. So why is it that in all of my accomplishments, the only question that I get is “How did you survived the challenges to get to where you are today?” Why does the fact that I am Hispanic mean I’m not a normal person to be

Growing up in a Latino household is hard. My parents only spoke Spanish therefore my first language was Spanish. For the first few years of my life this was not really a problem, I enjoyed life as any normal little girl would. I got to talk to all of my cousins and all of the neighbor’s children. It wasn’t until I got to school that it became real that I was going to learn English. Don’t get me wrong I always knew I had to learn English my parents always talked to me about school and helped me as much as they could. It was also around this same time where I started to understand that it was not only hard for me it was hard for them as well. My parents had to live in this country not knowing the main language spoken.

My parents both came to this country at a very young age. My father was 16 when he first moved to the U.S. and my mother years later moved when she was 19. I am a child of immigrants and it was hard growing up. I consider myself a Mexican American or Chicana. I grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles and later moved to Las Vegas. As I asked my father what he had to deal when he first moved he said “people would discriminate me just because I couldn’t speak well English and because of my brown skin”. “I was only 16 and wanted to live the American dream, but it was more like hell in America”. A lot of people are discriminated every day just because they aren’t Caucasian/white Americans, but they’re still American they live here and have a living here.

Being a latino in the U.S had been and still is the reason for suffering discrimination against one's aspirations and goals in life. Not only that but as an ESL life was far from being the American Dream most people come to this country looking for. The truth is that for those that had not escape from the category of ESL, prejudice will be a stigma that would follow them through high school and life. From these tumultuous waters I rose. Expectations were low and many assume that I was either stupid or incapable to compete with my classmates. My attitude and determination were the floating devices for my sicking life.

Preference, segregation, or enmity coordinated against somebody of an alternate race in light of the conviction that one 's own particular race is superior is prevalent. Prejudice is as old as human culture itself. For whatever length of time that individuals have been around, the contention has remained alive; people have constantly despised or dreaded individuals of an alternate country or skin color. It is said that racism or prejudice is simply some portion of human instinct, but we are not born with racism. We learn to discriminate from our societal norms.

Under these circumstances, I have tried to run from the judgements of others to avoid harsh treatment. I tried to speak without my native accent. I don’t want my race or ourselves to be seen as a stereotype or be profiled as an action. To put it in another way, before I didn’t know a word of English, my elementary teacher would describe me as a rock that didn’t have the potential to do anything because of my knowledge in English. Experiencing stereotypes at a very young age, I was profiled as worthless for not understanding the same language as everyone else. Looking back it is hard to understand as a kid if the teacher was profiling me personally or if he was trying to motivate me. But this type of experience is what I’m afraid of experiencing because I don’t know if they are stereotyping or trying to

I have the best grades. I am actually number two in my class. I try my hardest at school because it is the only way I can repay my parents. I want to go to college and become a physical therapist. My goal in life is to be in a good economic place. Race inequality is something that I have experienced many times. As a Hispanic woman, I have faced some challenges. I have been discriminated against many times. Most of the time it has been by whites. I cannot go to fancy places without them giving me a dirty look. Since I am Hispanic, people label me as a beaner, a criminal, and a “dirty”

It was hard to adapt to the system. I was, and still am an outcast. The language was the hardest thing to learn as a child. It was hard because as a little girl I couldn’t ask my parents, the only people I trusted, for help. They were clueless about the language also. Because of the great language barrier, my full potential wasn’t shown and I was held back. At the same time, my parent’s matrimony wasn’t going so well and they separated. Soon after the separation, my older sister and I moved with our mom away from the west coast. It was just us now. Times were rough. My mom was always working. Her three jobs didn’t permit her to bond much with us. Back in that time I didn’t understand the circumstances, but today I am extremely grateful for her and her determination to never give up and her only reason was me and my sister. Moving to away from the west coast benefitted me a lot. There were less hispanics so I had no option but to learn English. After I mastered English, it would bring me great pleasure to see my name in the honorary roll. I loved the look my mom gave me when I received recognitions from my schools. It was a look of proudness. Our different skin color, language, and culture were motives enough for American people to make us outcasts. I would get so angry when kids would make racist comments about me and my country. I have learnt that some people aren’t educated to know that people are people no matter the culture, the differences. They weren’t taught to respect. I’m forgiving to those who made me feel less because of my

On the playground, I fluent English speaker while the other Hispanic children often supplanted their English with Spanish vocabulary I failed to understand. Consequently, this led to a de facto rift between those I could and could not be friends with because I did not know Spanish. Despite the fact I shared the commonalities of skin tone and having grandparents who lived in the “Lanes”, I was not “one of them”. My privileged upbringing, thanks to my parents, allowed me to succeed in school and experience little difficulty writing essays or reading a book for class. This was made obvious as my teachers often selected my school work to show other students and called on me to answer questions during class. As I aged my Spanish did improve, somewhat, but not as much as my friends’ English. Therefore, I was regulated to the Spanglish found in border towns that “fake” Mexican’s used and common phrases I felt comfortable with, since I did not speak fluent

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’.

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

Being a young hispanic Latina I have always defined myself as Guatemalan but born in America. My mother has always taught me to appreciate my roots and where I originate from, so at home my mom made a rule in which I could only speak spanish. But most of all how important it was for me to speak a different language rather then just english, although that meant being the only form of helping my mother communicate with the outside world. Growing up, I realized that my mother relied on me to understand what doctors, teachers, and even some reading said because of how unlikely it was for a spanish translator. Throughout the years I have experienced racial discrimination, symbolic violence, and even how social cultural environment has a major affect

3) Choose 3 characters from the movie and describe how discrimination, prejudice, or stereotyping affected or defined their character. Stereotyping: Tito (Gabriel Chavarria), a Hispanic student, displays an act of stereotyping Jamal, a black student, by drawing a picture of Jamal as having big, fat lips. The stereotype being that all black men have big fat lips.

As a human being we have different personalities and appearances that distinguish ourselves from others. Discrimination still exists even after all the events, speeches, and protests that has been expressed there will always be a small spark of racism in such a diverse world. I would imagine discrimination like a white rose overwhelmed in a bouquet of red roses is easily distinguished among the rest. A certain race might think that they are more advanced than the other and would be looked down upon. I wouldn’t really describe discrimination and racism as hate, but more of a social misunderstanding and people who won’t accept the reality that Earth is not made of one race. There are many stories and news about discrimination and racism like

When I'm presented with a "Where are you from?" I usually run through this multiple-choice quiz in my head: