Race as a Factor to Be Hired for Certain Jobs

Stereotypes and discrimination have been in our society since this country’s founding. In our current society, many of these stereotypes are projected through movies. In the article “Whistling Vivaldi” Steele makes frequent comments about the differences between black and whites stating if you are any color other than white you are in fact less intelligent (2). This is the core problem, in our day to day lives, stereotypes get thrown around like they are facts, without any questions involved. Wither you are white, Black, or Hispanic, we all function the same on the inside.

From the Purnell Model for cultural competence, I started my interview with overview and heritage. According to Purnell it is defined as " includes concepts related to the country of origin, current residence, the effects of the topography of the country of origin and current residence, economics, politics, reasons for emigration, educational status, and occupations" (Purnell, 2002). I began my interview with my Mexican friend, Diego Pina. In my interview I learned that Diego is was born in Mexico and immigrated into the United States. Diego identifies himself as a male and is Hispanic. He currently resides here in Edwardsville for school. He has only completed high school, but he is currently pursuing a career engineering here at SIUE. He has no economic factors or concerns and is a democrat.

Generally we want to approach decisions with placing ourselves in another’s shoes, however, seeing past how we view ourselves within our own racial group can again lead to stereotyping behavior.

For this assignment, I interviewed Alejandro Perez who my current significant other. He currently works as a subcontractor for construction. He is twenty-six years old. He is the oldest child in his family. He has four other brother and one sister. He identifies as Mexican because he was born and raised in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. At the age of sixteen, his father along with a guide immigrated to California. During the interview, I asked him what it meant to be a male in the Latino Culture. We talked about his primary cultural values, his bicultural experience, and consequences of oppression, counseling issues, and his perception to an effective learning environment.

Today we live in a world that is a multicultural society. More commonly America is said to be a “melting pot”, meaning that our countries populations are made up of many different cultures and ethnic groups. As people with different cultures come in contact with each other there are external aspects such as food, dress, and language that becomes very evident. Using our own cultures lens we view everything from our cultures perspective thus narrowing our views of others and aiding in the difficulty of communicating with individuals of other cultures and backgrounds. Stereotypes exist within every culture all around the world, this includes, African Americans and White Americans within the United States. When thinking of stereotypes the first

Stereotypes are widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular person or thing. Racial stereotypes are when you mentally exaggerate a racial group that we hold automatically, not as an individual. We develop stereotypes through our cognitive scheme, which we know for categorization, to make the world more predictable. Just like the worldly opposites, there are negative and positive stereotypes for African Americans. Some negative stereotypes are that black people are criminals or affiliated with drugs. And some positive stereotypes are black people are good singers or really great athletes. The victim(s) of the stereotype takes the steps to counter the bias opinion about themselves. In the series of questions asked, the determination of whether one's bias opinion is true and the group own up to that stereotype to make it true. Or one actually creating the stereotype for their group which is pointed out by another group. These questions were asked towards white and black members of Argo Community High School. White Response (WR) and Black Response (BR) is how the determination will be evaluated, to infer a theory as an general answer.

African Americans versus whites does it matter in the workplace? We must all agree that there is some form of racism that still exists in the workplace, as for me I strongly agree with Pager and Western that race still exists in the United States and exists at places other than work. According to Society the basics, racism is the belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another.

With an enormous shift into the labor force, there has been a distinct difference into how each race and industry has been affected. In Figure 1, “Income by Race”, we took into the account one’s race and the amount income they received. We notice that the Asian workforce has seen a slight increase in their yearly median income going from just a little over $30,000 in 1995 to now over $35,000 in 2015. The white work force has also seen a slight increase in wages. The Hispanic work force however, has not seen as much of an increase, with the median yearly income going up only a few thousand dollars over the span of 2 decades. We can see that there has not been a very noticeable increase in income for any race that was observed over the

White privilege exists across a number of different dimensions, all of which are significant and intersecting. One such dimension is labor, which has played an important role in both the construction and maintenance of whiteness. Although labor movements have traditionally been associated with workers’ liberation, this has not always been the case with regard to racial and ethnic minorities. Indeed, the American workforce in the 20th Century was extremely stratified by race. Racially disparate opportunities and outcomes in employment were and continue to be the norm thanks to institutions embracing the possessive investment in whiteness. This has contributed significantly to the structural racial inequality we see today, especially as experienced by African Americans. White privilege and the possessive investment in whiteness have been perpetuated throughout American labor history due to public policy and labor practices, both explicitly racial and nonracial, which have codified and protected whiteness as property.

Have you ever walked into a department store or a restaurant and noticed the employees or managers? Whenever I attend one of these establishments I noticed that the employees are either of color or Hispanic while the managers are Caucasian. In these establishments these employees are cleaning or just doing basic jobs around the store, for example, working on the cash register, stocking, and etc. And in most cases there aren’t many upper level managers like store managers to be exact that are colored people. I came to the conclusion that colored people don’t have major roles in establishments or don’t even work in these establishments. I believe these acts are a sign of race discrimination. In conducting this research I plan to go to different department stores and restaurants in one day and observe what race are the employees and how many people of color are working.

As we all may know, the issue of race and gender discrimination has become a very popular social issue. Race and gender come into play literally everywhere you go, but should it be a determining factor in your eligibility to be hired as a police officer? Or what if your gender or race determined your field assignments? Of course no man or woman should be judged based on their race or gender, but in certain circumstances, I believe it may be necessary.

A case study conducted by Ana Nunes and Mark Bendick considers a research basis for controlling bias in business hiring. In the beginning of the case study, the two authors start by talking about stereotypes and their prevalence in society today. Through their own research, they have found that stereotypes have been used over several years, influencing perception and evaluations in employment decisions, such as hiring. This results in those in a stereotyped group being treated more poorly when they step outside their

With all of the advances in modern society and human behavior, racism is still a crisis that many people have to cope with. It can occur at any place or at any time, including in the workplace. Racial discrimination arises when someone is treated differently based on their actual or perceived race. Many people believe that if one were to be in the vicinity of a respected workplace that they would be respected by all co-workers and employers; this is in no way true. A big amount of minority employees, mainly African-Americans, are affected by racial discrimination in the workplace whether it’s from their employers or their fellow co-workers, and it is not at all acceptable. Racial discrimination is a situation that has always been a problem, so we must show an effort to try to eliminate it from our society.

There are many factors that can make determining the race of a person challenging. A common factor is judging from physical appearance; there are many races that have the same physical characteristics as others. For example when I was doing the sorting people exercise, I confused some Hispanics/ Latinos as being Native American and vice versa by basing my judgment off of skin tone and hair color. Also, when classifying people into racial categories, people may not take into consideration the ancestry of a person. People can consist of more than just one race, so in situations like these, categorizing someone into a race can get complicated. The issue from these two points about the difficulty of classifying people into race categories is based

In my opinion, the various kind of ethnicity in London creates some inequality in labour market and health. The ethnicity is de1fined as a process of self-definition arising from inside a group. A way in which individuals define their personal identity and a type of social stratification that emerges when people form groups based on their real or perceived origins. (Dictionary of Human Geography, 5th Edition). Firstly, the inequality in minority ethnicity group labour market is one significant existing factor of London’s socially inequality. There were a large amount of migrant from Africa, Pakistan, India and south Asia from 1950s to 1970s. It might be a result of British colonisation in some Asian and African countries. It provides a convenience for those residents in the colony to come to England and worked. However, most of them didn’t accept higher education or some skill training; therefore they could only do the unskilled, manual and low-paid jobs which the local British residents no longer wanted to do. After few decades’ development, the working and living condition of minority ethnicity group is well developed and getting more optimistic, they gradually get higher paid jobs and the working environment is becoming better as well. For instance, many second-generation minorities from Indian, Ugandan Asian and Chinese backgrounds have done well at school, and have gone on into successful managerial and professional careers in pharmacy, accountancy, medicine, banking