Understanding Human Diversity And Populations At Risk

There are different levels of discrimination and often times, most people do not realize they are prejudiced. “While most people want to be fair, we can’t help but have preconceived notions”. This quote just shows how some people are raised to either dehumanize or respect a person more because of their race or background. Just like any other learned behavior, prejudice is integrated into the lives of many and plays a huge role in society. Stereotypes and personal experiences strongly contribute to the unintentional actions a person gives off towards a certain type of person or group.

When people have different upbringings then it can be difficult to make them see how some of the values they were raised with may be discriminatory (1), one way to attempt to overcome this could be by including various different examples of discrimination within

During my time enrolled in Psy 3325: Stereotypes, Prejudice Discrimination, taught by Dr. Tay Hack, we explored several topics concerning social differences. Using the textbook ‘ Understanding the Psychology of Diversity’ second Edition, I gained a deeper understanding of how the mind groups individuals together both consciously and unconsciously thus influencing the way we treat a person. In this course we covered racism, classism, homosexism, weightism, ageism, and the stigmas that come with these titles.

Why is discrimination so bad in our society? As we are hearing the news, all the terrifying crimes going on throughout the world, people are seeing certain races in a negative way because of the situation that’s happened from what they've seen or heard. Many people judge by someone's looks but don't even know their personality or even who the person is. Discrimination has got out of hand in our society. In “FOB vs Twinkies” by Grace Hsiang discrimination is intraracial, Hsiang describes how it mostly happens within the same ethnic group. She also starts describing and listening with her classmates from their personal experiences on how discrimination is in today's society and what they've been through with their ethnic group. In “Black Men

11. Explain how a person may suffer from multiple discrimination and how it might affect them.

In 1920, women across the United States were granted the right to vote through the passing of the 19th Amendment.  During WWII, Japanese Americans were subjected to Executive Order 9066, which labelled them as outcasts and criminals, and forced to live in internment camps. During the Great Depression, thousands of people took their own lives because they had lost all of their wealth after  the stock market crash. Those that killed themselves would rather be dead than poor.  These situations, among many, portray the dark side of living in such a diverse nation. There will always be individuals who do not want to bring about change and accept this that are different from their norm. These individuals live life wanting to keep those outside of

“No one is born hating another person because the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” – Nelson Mandela. In today’s society, minorities deal with racial issues such as racial profiling, racial bullying in institutions, and because of these racial attitudes, groups and movements have formed due to these acts. To this day, society is still burdened with many people who do not fully grasp the concept of equality; because of this, outdated racial attitudes are still an ongoing issue in modern society.

2. Describe a discriminatory situation that you experienced or witnessed. Identify the individual aspects of this discrimination. Describe any institutionalized racism that you have observed or experienced.

Humans make up their own perceptions of reality which brings them further from the truth of what really goes on. Depending on who you are some people are able to see clearer and take life for what it really is, while others hide behind their own perceptions. Millennial’s in particular are constantly hiding behind their own perceptions to what reality really is, and today that is hurting them. Many only see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear. In my own life I have gone through many what students would call “traumatizing events”. As a child I was made fun of for smiling and being happy all the time. I was bullied for the way I acted and called ugly on multiple occasions. When I look back on those things all I do is laugh and think how stupid, but in elementary, middle, and even part of high school, appearance, personality, and other people’s opinions mattered to me. I went through my share of days of depression but both my parents would constantly encourage me to keep going and not look away from it, but face my fears. I am a firm believer in the saying “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” because had I not faced my fears, had I not stood up to the bullies, had I not continued along with life and avoided everything and everyone I would not have realized or learned to stand up for myself, or how to stand up for others. So now when people try to hurt me emotionally or in some other way I can just laugh and know that I don’t need to care about what other’s think I just need to care about what I think. So standing up to the fears of life and learning how to not be offended when people make certain comments is all apart of growing up in life. As a African American myself I have people ask time and time again why I’m not offended when people use the “N” word or people make “racist” jokes. I tell them

Oppression and discrimination has plagued our society since early times. As a collective society one would think that over time oppression and discrimination would turn into acceptance and equality. Conversely, our society has taken sluggish steps towards diversity, acceptance and equality. Our society is focused on labeling people and putting them into limiting boxes. Oppression occurs across various groups of people based on gender, sex, race, religion, and disability. Members of these diverse groups are discriminated among work places, schools, and other places. Work places and schools promote diversity and non-discrimination, however little seems to be practiced. Oppression across generation leaves damaging consequences hindering society in the growth towards a more accepting environment.

For centuries, racism has become the universal epitome of culture, despite the efforts of various civilizations, such as the Western and European to combat these indifferences among people. A race is specific social group that can be differentiated through various ways, from facial features and hair textures, to social norms and habits that constitutes to that group. These differences contribute to our uniqueness and humanity. Because people can be grouped by any number of differences, Man, lead by his ignorance, perpetuated the issue once social-hierarchies began to develop, splitting society to its various groups. As a result, social disparity from one’s upbringing became the common tendency to look down, or look up at people of other

Since the beginning of time, technological and social advancements have allowed the human race to ascend as the most dominant species in the world. Innovations such as electricity and technology have permitted us to live in a connected world, while social advancements such as democracy, widespread education, and improvements in racial and sexual equality have led to a more civilized and fair society. While humans are constantly evolving and advancing towards a better way of life, one negative aspect of human thought seems to prevail through even the most driven societies. The actions of expressing bigotry and the voicing of intolerance for those who are either different or hold different beliefs has caused hatred, pain, and suffering throughout

While at Missouri State University I took SWK 219, Human Diversity. Personal prejudice was a topic of discussion in that class and we were encouraged to examine ourselves to find the ones we held. Despite what my seasoned professor told the class, I found it difficult to think of prejudices I had because I hoped myself to be better than that. I remember feeling confident that I would be able to work with anyone without bias or prejudice. What caught me by surprise with my client was the prejudice I found in myself towards someone like me, a white male. Our backgrounds were as different as anyone’s could be but because a prejudice against someone my skin color was not on my radar I was unprepared to see how it affected my service to him. With my client though I felt so responsible for the integrity of the information that I left behind the dignity and worth of the person. My client knew what he was talking about, it was his experience he was trying to communicate to me but I put him at a disadvantage due to my prejudice. He had to try and yell his experience over the wall I had already built before I met him. Unaware of all our prejudices when we first enter this type of work, we must be vigilant to identify them before they occur challenging any prejudice we find in ourselves to better understand who we are and become more effective at what we

From the looks of it, he appears American as well. Anthropological ideas about the pattern of human diversity changed significantly during the 20th century. Before the second World War, Homo sapiens were generally perceived as a polytypic genus with biologically different smaller groups, or races. This biological diversity was believed to be the cause of long periods of independent evolution when each race was separated from the others.

In a "me" driven society we often don't take the time, to look at life through a different lens other than what you may personally experience on a daily basis. In striving for a more perfect society we must be able to do just that, try to see life from other people's perspectives, to try to envision what life might be like for people who face an onslaught of racism, sexism, all the isms you can think of. in a societal construct in, which is designed for a few. People with disabilities are constantly being discriminated upon even though there a law in place, in attempts to bring equality for all.