Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination in Mauritius

Stereotyping and discrimination are very deeply ingrained in American culture. Even though there have been movements taken to combat stereotyping and discrimination such as the Civil Rights Movement, the Women’s Rights movement, and the Black Lives Matter Movement, it still exists. This raises the question of, how do we end it? While there is no definite answer there is a way to avoid stereotyping and discrimination. The three essayists Bharati Mukherjee, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Brent Staples and show that by learning about stereotyping, people can also learn how to change themselves to avoid discrimination based on stereotypes. By comparing and contrasting these essayists experiences as well as outside research to show the theme of why people

It is common knowledge that the topic of race is being examined all over the world. Frequently, more efforts are made through formation of policies, enactment of laws, and abolition of practices to obliterate racial discrimination. The pace of success of this endeavor is being delayed by the media because the media constantly portrays race in an inappropriate and derogatory manner. A race as described by Yolanda. T. Moses is a group of people who share similar and unique characteristics, while racial stereotypes are automatic and mental pictures held about all members of a particular social group. When people are stereotyped racially, they do not take into account individual differences .The media’s poor understanding of the true meaning of race has been communicated to the general public, making people think race is a biological phenomenon whereas it is socially and culturally constructed (Moses 735) and this has caused the increase in racial stereotypes by media’s continuous portrayal of negative stereotypes of different races all over the world.

6. Summarize the historical process of population growth referred to as the demographic transition that occurred in Europe.

Earth is populated by approximately 7.1 billion inhabitants, within those dwellers you come across people of diverse color, race and ethnicity. In today’s society stereotyping and discrimination have become an increasing social acceptance. Stereotyping can be described as classifying or making assumptions about person based upon their behaviors and or clothing. One stereotype that is currently on the rise is the misconception Americans have on Latinos. The first stereotype misconception there is, is that Latinos took all the American jobs. The following fallacy, Americans have is that all Latinos are Mexican. Preceding that fallacy is, Americans believe Latinos are not well educated and lazy.

Stereotyping leads to prejudice. If I am walking in a park and I see a group of people walking towards me (lets say all are white males) and they are dressed up and look very nice. I do not panic, now another group is walking towards me and now this group is all men (African Americans) and they are dressed and conduct themselves just the same as the first group, but I panicked with this group. Why because I stereotyped the second group and if I was prejudice no matter how they dressed or acted I would be afraid of them because they are black. I judge them based on skin color and not on individuality.

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’.

This is one of the largest problems happening now, right under our noses. It has got so bad that some people are unaware whilst they are doing it. Disgusting right? It literally pains my heart when it is occurring and I see people doing absolute nothing about it. Racism. But then again people are so quick to throw around the word racist. It goes something like, “you’re racist”, “that’s very racist of you”. But in addition to that a majority of people do not even know the correct and precise meaning. The dictionary meaning ‘ the belief that each race has certain qualities or abilities, giving rise to the belief that certain races are better than others’. Racism is the violation of the rights of a group of people on the basis of race, colour, religion, national origin, place of origin or ancestry. When will we stop it?!

In America’s society, there are millions of immigrants who make up roughly 15 percent of the population. An immigrant is any individual who comes to live in foreign country permanently where they are not originally born. Even though there are such high population rates for legal immigrants, there is still immigrant bashing that occurs. Which consists of immigrants being constantly tormented and belittled because of their ethical background. Alberto G. Mata and Catalina Herrerias describe immigrant bashing and politicians stereotyping within their story. For instance, the authors explain in depth how politicians “use racial and ethnic groups to win electoral races, and promote racial and ethnic stereotypes that feed discrimination. (Coramae

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

I went to a high school in Canada where I graduated with one coloured student, so my ideas of race are completely different from students here. Coming down here was a bit of a shock how big racial issues were, it was something I never really had to deal with at home and I hadn’t put much thought into it. One of the biggest eye opening things that happened on campus what the black lives matter march that happened last year around campus. I just happened to be going for dinner at the main dining hall when it started out in the courtyard out front. It was a new experience because there had never been protests or marches tribute to race where I grew up, I had never seen people passionate about it like I saw that night. I wouldn’t go as far to say that I was unaware of race before this happened, I have been educated on the subject, but since I believe I have become much more aware of it. I have started to realize discrimination as well as pay

Stereotypes are a streamlined idea of a certain group which can eventually spread prejudice which is a belief on a group of people. The difference is that stereotypes can be formed by experiences whereas prejudices are people taking a stereotype and believing it, but they do not have experience on a certain group. For example, a person may have seen that some Mexicans act rough and messy, but that person could share their experiences with other people who may not know Mexicans well. As a result, other people will take that stereotype and believe it, forming a prejudice inside their mind. If they were to meet a Mexican person, they would just assume that they are all rough and messy, despite having no prior experiences with Mexicans. Discrimination can consist of actions done to a group of people. Discrimination is not the same as Racism as discrimination is the unequal treatment of a person based on their race. Racism is a stronger type of prejudice that is used to claim that one race is superior to other races. An example of Racism is the Ku Klux Klan as their members believe whites are superior to any other race. They do not discriminate by mistreating other races. Instead, they spread hate speech and commit hate crimes to try to show that whites are better than other races.

Racism, prejudice, and stereotyping are major issues in America. Racism is defined as “a set of beliefs that one’s own racial group is superior to other groups (Benokraitis, 2014, p. 185). The existence of racism comes hand to hand with hate groups. Hate groups are an organized group of individuals who demonstrates hatred against people of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other designated sector of society. One particular hate group that I would like to explore is “World Church of the Creator”. “World Church of the Creator” is a white supremacist group that considers itself a religion found on the proposition that the white race is “nature’s highest creation ("ADL- World Church of the Creator", 2001).

I chose discrimination and prejudice for my multicultural paper, because I feel that discrimination and prejudice is the main reason for all the hate in the world. People are discriminated against because of reasons such as race, ethnicity, religion, looks, sex, sexual orientation, class, and other ridiculous reasons. I feel that if discrimination could be eradicated, then this world would be a peaceful place to live. Discrimination has been plaguing this world since the beginning of time. I am sure there was prejudice as Homo sapiens started interbreeding with Neanderthals. I could picture Homo sapiens parents telling their children to stay

People believe that there are many forms of misunderstanding, getting things mixed up, and just straight confusion.They see it as they push the issue of racism in the past to the side, and they feel offended by it.Their argument is that all people could act suspicious and not only young men of color. People think that their race is superior than others, when people talk about the system they mostly talking about the police.

The one obvious negative effect of the perceptions that we know little about paves the way for stereotypes , ethnocentrism and Prejudice . Stereotypes are the oversimplified ideas about a group of people , Ethnocentrism is the evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture , Prejudice is thoughts and feelings about those discriminated groups . Because all obvious things that we hear about include stigmas like “ All Asians are smart , and all blacks are criminals “ . It is sad that all of these invalidated myths have become common currently because they are seen as the self-evident and the obvious .