The Positive And Cultural Aspects Of Cultural Discrimination In Society

1 Introduction: In accordance with Forehand & Kotchick, (2016) cultural diversity is considered to be a condition where different social group and communities are present in one geographical region or in particular entity having different races, belief systems, behaviour, colour, perception, language, religion, ethnic background etc. Moreover, Lambert, (2016) emphasized that diversity management consideration by means of generating shared belief systems, respect for group’s beliefs, values, norms

economy and immigration in many countries; the 21st century has witnessed a surprisingly increase in the formation of multicultural societies, where a varying number of ethnic people stay together. Although it has both positive and negative effects to a country, it seems to me that we are more likely to obtain more benefits than disadvantages from this kind of society. In addition, the multicultural population is growing fast. One example of this in education where “one of the major educational goals

Discrimination in Today’s Society Discrimination is defined as “the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.” This mistreatment based on factors beyond our control, like cultural background or race, is prevalent in modern society. Discrimination is one of the most important issues of today´s society to resolve because it leads to stereotyping of different groups of people and the “lack of acceptance” for those who

Cultural Immersion Project 3- Couple of the Muslim Faith Lillian Reaves I had a pleasure of experiencing a unique interview with a couple. The interview was extremely rewarding, challenging and educational. In my interview, I encountered a couple in their mid-30s that had been dating for approximately four years. Dina and Rahim are the couple that I interviewed. Through this interview, I expanded my understanding on the cultural factors that have helped them shape their identity. The couple is

As a school counselor, I must be a passionate advocate for the students I work with in terms of promoting cultural social justice, assist my students in developing cultural self-awareness, and promote wellness and growth of my students. I believe that these components of being a school counselor are the most important aspects of the position, and I will gladly accept these roles. I will work with students who are being marginalized in seeing their self-worth by helping them see how they matter, and

Culture is not considered homogeneous in all societies but it is considered as a mechanism that enables people to adjust and adapt to their physical environment it follows similarly to a group of people but differs in various ways such as their survival techniques and principles of human existence. This results in the presence of social groups who attribute into larger and smaller groups to maintain their values that lead to their identification as distinct social groups. Andersen and Taylor (2003)

given by various resources. To specify, the resources are the media, television, images, magazines or websites. There are many aspects of discourses, which inhibits a different outcome as according to context. Discourses are conversations between different types of people or social groups (Gee, 2015) For instance, identity can conform around the discourses that surround cultural and social influences. Whereas knowledge and power becomes interlinked, causing systems of hierarchy to occur. Discourses

of the world, but more than this, they have also converted this into a source of pressure and conflict, which eventually lead race and ethnicity inequality into a social problem. Race is what society has divided people who share it biologically traits that members of a society define as relevant. That society has dived humanity into categories depending on skin color, hair texture facial features, and body shape. That race has nothing to do with being a human, that

in U.S. he opposed racism and prejudice saying in the end everyone is human. He had hoped that people learned to be more tolerant of others who are not similar to them because diversity makes us the human race (Franz Boas). The first positive aspect of cultural relativism is the belief that there is no universal culture even though culture is universal (Chiariello, 2013). That each cultures has their own separate beliefs, tradition, values, and morals. That there is no one true or false way of

Convention was conducted in order to highlight the fact that it is very important to understand and eradicate socio-cultural differences in underprivileged countries for providing children a healthy environment for grooming their personalities. The convention concluded that discrimination, stereotypes and abuse are some of the negative outcomes of socio-cultural differences. There are evident cultural differences in parenting among different states of Nigeria. Many case studies have concluded the fact that