Similarities Between Xenophobia In Fantastic Beast

The U.S has a prolonged history of discrimination. In the late 17th century, when America declared as a free country, only the white gentility had the privileged of “freedom” and African American continue their life as slaves for many decades. As the country grows, it became a dream land, a refuge for immigrations fled from their country to seek freedom and pursuit happiness. However, the gene of discriminations stuck deeply in the mind of the early founding fathers; hence their descendents also obtained the hatred toward immigrations who look differently. In the late 1800s and the early 1900s, many immigrants such as the Jews, Chinese and Japanese immigrations came to America with the hope for

An article by Nicholas Kristof titled, “Americas History of Fear” which mentions how America is not indifferent, but does not know how to deal with newcomers or immigrants. Fear and intolerance has been seen throughout America’s history. An event of this kind would be what recently happened in the Los Angeles L.A.X. airport; it was reported that a man began shooting and killed innocent people. Many people saw this person which includes his race and are now fearful. This even contributes to the reason why it is so relevant today. There has not been much change; therefor, today there are many minorities facing intolerance or indifference socially. Also, the ambivalence that many people show nowadays is similar to what most people did in the past and there are historical facts that document the struggles that have happened to many minorities like injustice.

So why is it that they are threatened by immigrants? Psychologist Susan Fiske explains why, “We care deeply about our in-groups, But the downside is that you’re then excluding people who are not in the in-group” (Fiske,752). According to psychologist Rodolfo Mendoza Delton not sympathizing with immigrants is a basic human trait. He states, “Fear of foreigners might well be the most intractable of all human prejudices because it is so tightly linked to survival and natural selection” (Mendoza-Delton, 752). This meaning that some don’t like immigrants coming to their territory because they are not willing to share their resources with others. As well as the fear of immigrants bringing diseases that their bodies are not used to. The fear of immigrants can be seen as an irrational fear for some, however some people are wired to feel this way because it is their basic human instinct.

Misconception and fright can lead to prejudice. In Arthur Miller’s play, “The Crucible” people who refuse to admit to dealing with the Devil will be hanged. In fear of dying, people who have been accused but haven’t actually dealt with the devil admit to something they haven’t done in order to escape demise. Reverend Hale says to John Proctor, “Mister, I have myself examined Tituba, Sarah Good and numerous others that have confessed to dealing with the Devil. They have confessed it.” and John Proctor says back, “And why not, if they must hang for denyin’ it? There are them that will swear to anything before they’ll hang; have you never thought of that?”. Extremism in this sense still goes on today, too. In Los Angeles, California, the ACLU sued the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service because they denied a 50 year old Egyptian Muslim man’s naturalization application based on misleading FBI files and “questionable” tactics. This denial is part of what the ACLU thinks is a pattern of racial and religious profiling.

Discrimination is the process of identifying that someone is different and, due to this difference, treating them unfairly (Thompson, 2006). Xenoracism is discrimination that is aimed at people specifically because they are from a different country, and are therefore ‘strangers’ (Sivanandan,

Throughout the history of the United States, it is true that a popular opinion amongst citizens has had an ability to impact the country as a whole. While some were in favor of the country becoming a “melting pot”, others strongly believed in restricting immigration into the country and hindering equality amongst the different races already there. In addition, the idea that foreigners were uncultured savages who needed help civilizing themselves seemed to dominate public opinion, leading to a negative view of potential diversity. These situations can be seen in the decades between 1880 and the First World War, illustrating how ideas and actions based upon racist ideologies influence both domestic and foreign affairs in the nation. After

In Eggers’ novels, it gave great examples about Islamophobia, for example, when FEMA(Federal Emergency Management Agency) arrested Zeitoun, they thought that Zeitoun was tied to a terrorist organization due to his ethnicity, “The authoring committee had been asked to speculate on possible terrorist exploitation of a high category hurricane.”(308). The government are basically saying that they should assume all looters or Middle Eastern descents are a terrorist threat to the United States during Hurricane Katrina. This kind of racial profiling in our government brings back past history. After the Slavery was abolished, African Americans and other minorities were being mistreated and was segregated from white people. The government did nothing to stop this kind of mistreatment and actually encourage white people to separate from the minorities by separating bus seats, bathrooms, etc. After 9/11 people start to see Muslims differently and we are basically repeating history. If we are not aware of this kind of prejudice, than Muslims will be mistreated and in the back of people’s mind they will view all Muslims as terrorist. It is an universal understanding that no one should judge or hurt somebody based on their ethnicity. Not only it is an universal understanding but in the future, we can prevent this kind of prejudice against any ethnic group because we are being exposed to this type of material early in

Even today we are dealing with are president trying to get rid of all mexicans in our country. This country is supposed to be the greatest one but yet all everyone does is base people off their race before getting to know them. “No one should live in fear of being stopped whenever he leaves his home to go about the daily activities of life.” (Ben Jealous) This refers to the present and back during WW2 Japanese Americans were being judged as soon as they stepped one foot out of their homes for doing normal everyday things. Its sad and scarey to think that it's still like that

Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”. It is a common assertion that the United States is a “melting pot”-a mixture of numerous different cultures, ethnicities, religions, and people hailing from all over the world. However, just as proudly as this is proclaimed, there is another truth that becomes evident: prejudice against those who dare to make a better life by emigrating to the U.S. is alive and thriving. This unfortunate reality is nothing new. “Immigrants constantly face being discriminated against because of the color of their skin, the sound of their voice, or simply because of the way they look and their beliefs”

It is no lie that the United States has diversity—but that does not stop those at the top from trying to stomp any exhibition of that diversity out. Since the beginning, America has been driven by an innate sense of superiority that we have the right to do what we want to do as long as it furthers our democracy. Regrettably, the reality behind this notion is malevolent. In the past, Anglos “conquered” those from cultures who they saw as inferior for what they saw as the “greater good”; even today, we prosecute those from different cultures simply for being different and not conforming to the American norm. Sadly, with this goal of furthering the majority, the U.S. has forgotten the

Instead of rejecting those who come from different backgrounds and customs, we need to embrace them. I understand that society has a way of making the “unknown” (as in people from different cultures) seem like a dangerous problem, but the real problem of society is how we have let it shape our views of certain people. Some have been ignorant, and mislead to believe these lies about truly innocent people. Discrimination and persecution is real, and it is happening today. Building the wall on the southern border, for example, would physically separate ourselves from other countries. We need to do the opposite: we need to be united. We have seen Trump’s discrimination and persecution before he was elected. Now, with his election, we can expect it to be more prevalent than

We are a country built by immigrants. The original settlers of this nation came from countries all across Europe, and America later became a beacon of hope for millions of immigrants throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. That being said, the discrimination against immigrants today might be could be seen as ironic because of how many immigrants were welcomed with open arms in the past. However, it has become clear recently that the discrimination is a little bit more complicated, as mainstream examples of prejudice all involve people of color, like Trump’s muslim ban for example. White immigrants from places in Europe as usually seen as exotic in a positive light, and their accented non-perfect english is endearing and even attractive to some. On the other hand,

On his article regarding Xenophobia, Massino Pegliucci takes a scientifically approach describing xenophobia as a condition that will be very difficult to eradicate. He believes that humans have a natural

Before the September 11, 2001, hatred towards Muslims in the United States started in 1923, when Muslims started migrating to the United States, an unlike increased presence. The hatred towards Muslims, also known as “Islam phobia”, was first featured in The Journal of Theological Studies. Many Muslims were targeted, the religion of Islam, Muslims, or any ethnic group perceived to be Muslim were characterized as having “bad faith and cruelty”, according to prejudice Americans.

Social conformity can be toxic, it often leads to the epidemic that is prejudice. To give a better idea of what prejudice means, Judice translates to judge in Latin, therefore the term “prejudice” literally translates into “pre-judgment”. There are innumerable forms of negative preconceived notions that exist in our world today, the biggest one being racism, which often is a stem of having anti-immigration views. Immigration prejudice is not unknown to any person who lives in America and has eyes and ears to know it exists, but it’s important to know that prejudice is not innate, it is learned, and as long as we allow our society to practice xenophobia among present and future generations we will never be free of it.