Propaganda, Fear, And Discrimination In The United States

Discrimination and prejudice are widely known in United States history. In the 1960's the civil rights movement demanded legislation and passed laws, which banned discrimination. Five decades later, it still continues in our society. Discrimination and prejudice occur when a group of people feel they are superior to another, and can be based on a person's color, race, national origin, religion, sex and gay couples.

The United States of America has been called a “mixing pot” since the birth of the nation. Everyone, especially politicians and educators, will proudly declare that the U.S. is a land of unmatched diversity. The U.S. seems to always be portrayed as a highly cultural territory, harboring a vast population of many races. Admittedly, the United States has come a long in terms of eliminating racial barriers and pursuing equality. All around the world, America is seen as a country of colors, yet mass media does not recognize that fact.

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.

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.

Since the beginning of America bigotry has been surrounding us. In Houston, TX, an organization called Center for healing racism has a mission to tear down bigotry through education and support groups that help you when you have affected by bigotry. Our decision maker of this country like our President along with our past Presidents have set laws that demolish separation. This issue has been present since slavery and segregation. Leaders of our country don’t like when people look different even though this country is supposed to be the land of the free. Specifically, in Deer Park, TX this type of behavior was taking place more around the Presidental election because some folks thought they were superior and considered "Real Americans" due

Racial profiling quick to notice of Iranians, Muslims, Arabs, Pakistanians and Afghanistanians and many more ethnic groups in that category they all was label as terrorists and they all prayed to Allah. These people were put under so much pressure and intensity scrutiny when going to the store, banks, airports and other location. Although whites and other ethnic groups have committed terrorist attacks they’ve yet to be profiled in the way Arabs in America have been.

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.

Racial profiling as method of counterterrorism is a major problem in the United States. Due to the damaging effects of 9/11 on the moral of the country and the present threats from ISIS, the Muslim-American society as a whole is being depicted in a way that classifies them as extremist terrorists. This fear of the Muslim society has become so dominant that the term “Islamophobia” has been adopted to communicate “fear, hatred and hostility towards Islam and Muslims.” As seen in a 2011 report on the West’s respect for Muslims, 52% percent of the American citizens who answered this poll voted that Western societies do not respect Muslim societies. (See figure 1.) The analysts of Gallup attribute this disrespect and fear of Muslim societies to differences in religion and political interests. (See figure 2.) America needs to reevaluate its counterterrorism strategy in order to account for and respect the human rights of its targets. If not, an entire society of people, Muslim-Americans, will be targeted as terrorists. The targeting of an entire group of people based on

According to CAIR.com, the council of American-Islamic Relations, “Almost 4 in 10 Americans have an unfavorable view of Islam.” Malala Yousafzai said that: “there should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion”. Discrimination comes in many forms such as age, gender, ethnicity, religion, and more. It had always been part of human nature; nevertheless, after the tragedy incident of 9/11 Muslims are widely seen as victims of discrimination especially those in foreign countries. Discrimination came in the form of both oppression and violence. Moreover, these bullies lead to a number of serious effects on a person's life such as depression and anxiety. Even though, some think that all Muslims cause violence,

Hate and prejudice among people has been there all along human history. In the United States, it continued with those who hold the majority of resources and power and control the social institutions, government, education and business. But we can say that the United States has taken a leap toward changes that can be view as optimistic of acceptance of everybody despite everyone’s differences. The vast majority of citizens have a progressive positive interaction with people of different cultures and ethnicities. But there are small extremist groups that have the means and know how to manipulate information to induce fear in people’s minds about someone who is different. The people in power in the nation who fear of losing that power create

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’.

One question that still plagues scholars is whether racism and anti-Semitism are a continuing problem within the United States, despite all the efforts made to eradicate them and all the work done to make everyone "equal." Most people in the US today would agree that equality is closer than it was in the past, but the truth of the matter is that all people are still not completely equal. There are a disproportionate number of black people in the prison systems and on welfare, for example, and women who do the same work as men still do not receive the same salaries. Additionally, there are anti-Semitic groups in the United States that still talk of Hitler and the Nazis as if they were heroes for what they did in an effort to eradicate the Jewish people. These groups are not seen on the news often and are not that vocal in most circles, but they are certainly in existence. It will be argued here that the United States is too much of a "melting pot" of different cultures, races, and opinions for there to be true equality, which means that racism and anti-Semitism will always exist in some degree. Abolishment by the government does not guarantee eradication of an idea or belief.

The United States is a nation of immigrants plagued by hatred for one another. Prejudice and discrimination is more than one occurrence in history or the actions of a single individual. Discrimination was imbedded in our past by our ancestors and has afflicted our lives even today. The media, books, and movies instill the stereotypes that fuel the prejudice and hatred among our country’s people. Numerous times movies have chosen to use people of color to portray the villains and uncivilized beings in their films causing their idea of a villain to take place in the mindset of American citizens. Prejudice is rooted in our history and has become the nation’s deadliest disease, but to rid our nation of this plague we must first look for the cure in ourselves and push for legal reform.

In modern politics and media, issues are often unnecessarily blown out of proportion and stigmatized through misinformation. Source A details this extensively, citing the prevalence of fear campaigns and misinformation to manipulate viewers. In the past, news was often simply factual and impartial. However, fear and bias are common forces behind coverage today. Recently, a news anchor claimed in a nationally televised interview that “We’re already in World War III,” hyperbolically and without basis, simply to scare viewers into listening. Source D illustrates this issue with a viewer simply turning off hysterical news coverage when asked “What can we do to lessen the grip of fear from terrorism?” This political cartoon implies that the fear striking America from modern issues such as terrorism and immigration is

Prejudice have a major causes in American society. People who are prejudices have a negative feeling towards a group and its members from different groups.There are different kinds of prejudices towards different groups and these prejudices have very different emotional components to them we judge people and groups based on our prejudices and stereotypes and treat them differently, we are being engaged in discrimination, racism, parents, and gender seems to be a continuing source of tension in many societies around the world as prejudice.