Severity Of Xenophobia

In the first eleven chapters of Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie avoids overtly discussing xenophobia and racism and the American view of the immigrant, and instead focuses on the complexity of immigrant life from an internal perspective. Through this, we learn that, even within Nigerian and African communities, Ifemelu still is unable to avoid one paradoxical struggle of being an immigrant: proving how assimilated and American she is while simultaneously retaining her cultural identity and proving that she is still African. This conflict is most evident in her interactions with the other African women (specifically Aisha) in the beauty salon. By lying about how long she has been in the United States and describing her fellowship

Racial prejudice and nativism are still social issues that define our present reality and affect us all. Everyday, immigrants in America find themselves victims of hate crimes like genocide because of their race and ethnicity (Wong 2). Genocide, “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group,” shows itself in racial crimes

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

Modern day America is a nation built upon immigrants and the intermingling of cultures and people. Yet, throughout its history, America repeats a pattern of ignoring victims of war, especially those in the path of conflict. A specific example being during World War II. While the war waged on, it left countless displaced persons in its wake, many being Jewish refugees. However, the Allied powers focused on winning the war, and did little to help these people. A more recent example is the War on Terror. Less than a month after the September 11th terror attacks, the United States began its war against terrorism. Throughout this war, American citizens have become wary and distrusting of Muslims. This dismissal of both Jewish and Muslim refugees shows the fact that history is repeating itself, with America entering a war and leaving refugees behind. Ignoring refugees, despite America's foundations in immigration, is due to American xenophobia. American citizens are comfortable with what is familiar, so when faced with foreign concepts or people, they tend to turn their backs on them, or even begin to feel malice towards them. American xenophobia leads to fearful and malicious views towards foreign refugees, is the main force behind strict immigration policies, and stems from a lack of education among Americans. These two concepts: xenophobia and exceptionalism, when coupled together, lead to devastating consequences for the displaced persons and countries America leaves in its

A recent survey was conducted which revealed that forty-one percent of Americans currently hold anti-immigrant sentiments. Similar trends were discovered for Europeans with thirty-seven percent of people in the United Kingdom and fifty-two percent of people in France expressing anti-immigrant attitudes (Krogstad, 2015). These trends show that negative views about immigrants are evident globally, and thus should be treated as an important issue. However, anti-immigrant attitudes are not involuntary and do not emerge from individual thought. Western nations, the United States in particular, use significant events in history such as the 9/11 attacks to their advantage by inciting extreme nationalism that demonizes immigrants which allows for the

Xenophobia is the fear of people from other countries. History tells us that many people had this fear and acted upon it. Nowadays, it is not so common. I think xenophobia was worse one hundred years ago than it is today even with recent global events.

Nowadays there has been a resurgence in xenophobia. Many protests take place in the United States and in Europe. Now Americans protest mainly about African-American and Mexican immigrants whereas European are against the refugees from Syria, Iran and many more war-torn countries. There is a wide range of factors, which make people flee their homes, thus in my opinion others should not make it harder for them by excluding and discriminating them.

With the crisis going on in the occupied Palestine, people are escaping to the United States. American is scattered with people who think that people who escape theses harsh conditions are coming here to spread violence. As a result of increasing xenophobia and ignorance towards the Arab immigrants and refugees, people should research about the Palestinian/ Israeli Conflict to gain awareness.

One does not have to look far to see the effects nationalism has had on American society. Racism and discrimination are major issues that America has struggled with throughout history. Some nationalist movements have developed into several different groups. Today, groups vary from peaceful civic nationalist groups like the Republican Party to hate groups like the American Freedom Party. Members of extremist groups often commit hate crimes or violate others civil liberties. According to the FBI’s 2015 Uniform Crime Report, 58.9% of the single-bias incidents reported were motivated by race or ethnic bias (FBI). Hate crimes are especially heinous because of the devastating impact they have on communities and families. Today, extremists and politicians

Intergroup processes refers to how people in either the same, or different groups, behave and relate towards one another (Hogg, 2007). Group identity signifies the relationships that individuals form with each other based on descriptive and demographic characteristics such as race, gender, and religion (Weber, Johnson, & Arceneaux, 2011). Forming such links with similar individuals’ can provide a source of self-esteem, provide solutions to problems, and also enforce norms (Weber, Johnson, & Arceneaux, 2011). However, the relationships that are formed through intergroup processes and group identity, may also rationalise showing derogative behaviour, such as prejudice, towards individuals’ who are not part on the group (Weber, Johnson, & Arceneaux, 2011). Prejudice can be defined as the unfavourable attitudes that individuals’ have in regards to a social group or its individual members (Singh, 2015). Prejudice is often directed towards immigrants, which include any person who has left the country that they were born in, and currently reside in another country, where they are frequently rejected from becoming part of society, and are instead faced with demands that they return to where they came from (Singh, 2015). There are various theories and explanations for why group identity and intergroup processes impact peoples’ prejudice towards immigrants. Such theories and explanations include the social identity theory, realistic conflict theory, belief congruence theory, and the

Limiting the free movement of immigrants and strengthening border control is a controversial idea that can be detrimental to the multiple relationships around the globe. In the last few decades, we have seen a remarkable rise in xenophobia and conservatism in the United Kingdom (UK). Before the Brexit decision was made, xenophobic parties failed to even pass the 5% of votes needed to become an official government party. If the ideas of xenophobia and other hateful rhetorics are prominent, it will promote an environment where discrimination against a culture, religion, or sexual orientation is okay which it is absolutely NOT. Recently, with the current the United States (U.S.) election, xenophobic and isolationist ideas have grown even more popular. America is symbolized as the land of opportunities with diversity and immigration rooted in its foundation. Immense power comes from the diversity which provides the various types of thinking and perspectives that help our country as a whole. If this hateful rhetoric is prominent, this diversity will disintegrate and discrimination will prevent the diversity to bloom to its full potential. This is the biggest consequence from

In conclusion, both xenophobic and foreigners get affected because of this process. Xenophobic people develop hatred while strangers and foreigners get mistreated. This concludes how xenophobia needs to be directed with more ways to help the xenophobic

Deepa gives illustrations of the cruel treatments of what racial anxiety leads to; These anti Muslim groups and anti-immigrants ideology contains so much hate for one group of people that their actions are not simply crimes but are domestic terrorism. Moreover, Deepa sheds light on recent acts of terrorism

Singapore and Malaysia were both similarly colonized by the British. However, their development after independence differed in many ways. In this paper, I will examine, with help from resources provided in the course and minimal research, how their colonial experiences affected their political and social development after independence. After which, investigating the depth of influence their colonizers had, and why, differing racial ideologies had the greatest impact on their development.

However, the development of Singapore’s society cannot be predicated on pure economics alone. Even though globalization has enabled Singapore to fare well in economic development, however, termed the perils of success, globalization has brought about undesirable