The Importance Of Minority Groups In Society

(also known as minority groups) has come to the forefront in many ethnic communities and how

Minority status has long since been viewed in a not-so-positive light. From the reflex many people have to lock their doors when they see a homeless person or a person of color, to stereotyping and assumptions based on institutionalized racism, to discrimination, minority status has a part to play in all of it. Similarly, many people have the idea that deaf people cannot do anything for themselves because they are “disabled”. Even though America was once hailed as a melting pot because of the diversity of its citizens, things like “you’re in America now, speak English” are said in today's America. While being defined as a minority isn’t inherently bad, it has become an excuse for some members of the majority to treat minorities as second-class citizens.

While Southwestern boasts itself as an extremely progressive, liberal institution. The university does meet many of the requirements to call itself these things it’s staff is not very diverse. In just the year 2015 Southwestern granted tenure to the first black male in its history Dr. Reggie Byron. Dr. Bryon became one of just five males of color tenured at Southwestern out of 91 tenured faculty. This represents that the faculty at Southwestern University strongly under represents racial minorities in its tenured staff. This lack of diversity exemplifies a structure of privilege at Southwestern that disproportionately furthers the interests of white students and professors and excludes racial minorities from the same experiences.

Blalock (1967) attempted to understand the relationship between minority populations and the extent of discrimination by non-minority groups. Blalock argued that as visible minority populations rose, the minority population would continually be seen as a political and economic threat to the ‘ruling race’ and would then be ostracized and victimized (Banton, 1968; Chongatera, 2013). Building further upon Blalock’s theory, Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou (1993) suggest that visible minority groups that were economically and politically successful were seen as threats whereas unsuccessful visible minorities were seen as deviant (Chongatera,

Race, ethnicity,gender sexuality and religion when one acts turns into violence when individuals are victimized because of race, ethnicity gender sexuality and religion due to one’s personal belief that one do not belong in a certain neighborhood. Innocent lives are taken for one’s personal prejudice. Minorities are born in a world where unfairness and challenges are in their lives before they could understand it.

The minority is defined by relative weakness of its social praxis, lack of the government representation, the unfairness of the judiciary towards it. The minority is a group of people who are signed out from the others in the society, receive unequal treatment and regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination (Akhtar, 2014). Even though the United States is multiethnic country and the number of minorities is growing, the treatment of minorities is still discriminatory.

From the late seventeenth century to the early twenty-first, minority groups in the United States continue to encounter various restrictions in regards with the right to vote. Traditionally, certain groups are concerned with protecting their political power over others as they maintain a tight control over their privilege. Doing so resulted in several violations of human rights, specifically stated in the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. From the local and state governments, to the federal government, voting restrictions based simply upon race and gender are unlawful.

Even though we have an African American President, racism is still a part of American culture. After carefully reviewing the Brown, Garner, and Gray cases, it reinforced my belief that all lives matter. Minorities in America should be seen as a higher priority than we are now. We do not want to be superior to the whites, we just want to be on the same playing field as them. In all these cases, each unfortunate victim was mistreated due to the color of their skin and killed unnecessarily by the police. As African Americans, we see that high authoritative people can abuse their power, which sometimes lead to death for the victim. Because some police officers feel like they are dominate, they sometimes use that feeling or power to beat people

Throughout Austin’s history, minority populations were isolated through political acts such as “A City Plan” in 1928, which wanted to make Austin “beautiful” so that involved removing minorities from the area surrounding the capital. In addition, schools for minorities were restricted to just the East side to force minority populations to move there. By the 1990’s, Austin was branded with the title “Live Music Capital of the World.” This title gave rise to an economic and social boost to Austin, but by doing so, it diluted the native culture into a hipster culture.

Hook: Historically, the minority cultures have fought for their freedoms. Most of them have been oppressed and force them to stay in the underclass of society, consequently, they will be unrecognized or assimilated by the rest of the country.

The surge in ethnic minority populations had a great impact to American society. Since the increase in minority populations, their voting right became more and more important. In terms of political participation of minorities, there are several issues that need attention. First partisan issue minorities. In general, minorities tend to Democrats. Secondly, the immigration is not the most important issue voters' concerns, but the economic and employment issues get most minorities’ attention. For Hispanics, immigration issue is very critical.

Religious Persecution of Christian Beliefs What is religious persecution? At the beginning of this project, I thought religious persecution was a black and white topic with a clear definition. I thought that religious persecution was simply the persecution of a group because of their religious faith. However, I discovered that there are no simple explanations of religious persecution, and it is a much more complex and controversial issue than I had imagined. In fact, some events categorized as religious persecution reveal only shades of grey and ambiguities and do not neatly fit this simple definition. I wanted others to come to this same understanding. Therefore, I have formulated my own definition of religious persecution.

Hostility, oppression, and persecution of Christians are at an all-time high, yet it is going unnoticed globally and even in our own country America. Studies have shown by the Italian-based center for Studies on New Religions report that Christians are the most persecuted faith in the world. These heinous acts against Christians go untouched. It is important to recognize global persecution outside the United States and the effects of it in our own country. Many people will argue that right wing conservative Christians are over-reaching and being overdramatic about our Christian rights in a secular nation. The question I pose to the audience is, would this be tolerated if it were any other religion but Christianity? The rights and morals that

There are many factors for majority to do discriminative actions on minorities. For starter, rasicm is a type of discrimination based on someones race, origin. And the reason behind this inequality is as Ratio calls “recognation argument” which states that self-confidence and personal identity comes from the belonging feeling a national community. And based on this feeling there comes up a bounding to a certain community (2015, 356). Just like in the movie “Die Welle”, the character Tim after a big loneliness becomes a member of Die Welle and he attacks everyone who against this group and in the end he suicides because of the group comes to an end. It is a great example of the human pyscology for the lost of the feeling of acceptance. Other

All human beings are entitled to equality and justice through our legal system and the state must accommodate to the rights of the minority groups. Some minority rights seem to conflict with liberal rights, for an example forcing women to stay home. (Freedman, 30 October 2017). In this essay, I will argue that the state should not endorse rights that infringes with the equality of the rights of a minority, therefore inhibiting the state’s ability to treat all of its citizens with equal concern and respect. Bill 62 and African Americans are two examples of the majority not being tolerant of the minorities rights. Achieving equality for all citizens in a society requires granting special rights to minorities in a liberal state. Liberal