Why Is America Bad

As Americans, living in a egotistical and self centered society, we often think that we are the best, the top 1 percent in every aspect. However, When compared to other countries of the world, America is ranked 14th in education, 44th in health care efficiency, and 101th in peace. But it ranks first in incarceration, 2nd in ignorance, and 3rd in global competitiveness. One can see how the rankings that America is top in are those that promote violence in one way or another. In the book Violence and Culture: A Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Approach by Jack David Eller, the author discusses violence in American society in one of his chapters. In this chapter, he mentions some social characteristics that represents and plays a role in

Yes racism and racial segregation has declined but when we face the facts, it is still there. “Today, segregation is due to a legacy of racism as well as present-day practices rather than the result of race-neutral individual choices or people’s desire to “live with their own kind.”(Jeff Dowd;2011;1) But how did racism and racial segregation decrease?

The idea of violence is instilled in everyone’s head in some way or another. From the time we are born we are equipped with the idea that we must react when we are upset. When someone affects us in a negative way, there is an idea in our minds that urges us to fight back or cause harm to that person. This idea of causing harm stays with us from childhood until we take our last breath. Since 2013, there have been 242 school shootings within America. Even worse, there have been over a thousand mass shootings in the country resulting in mass casualties. Most recently, one single man murdered fifty-eight people at a concert in Las Vegas, Nevada and injured over 240 others. Although the motive may have been different between these shootings, one thing remains the same for all of them, the act of violence.

Americans have been breaded to believe America is the greatest country in the world. America is a place of the freedom and possibilities, an outside looking in a very desirable place to live. However, America is not as great as Americans believe. Sure Americans have a wider range of freedom then most countries, but has plenty of issues that will repulse others from coming to the land of the free. Issues such as women’s rights, racism, and discrimination plague U.S. citizens nearly each day and that should change now.

Is racial segregation in schools coming back from the past to haunt our primary and secondary students? In the essay “Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid” by Jonathan Kozol talks about how racial segregation is making a comeback and is becoming particularly apparent between low-income urban cities and wealthy upper suburban areas. In this essay, Kozol talks about his visits to these urban schools that aren’t getting much attention. These schools where the majority are kids of color and seem to be lacking resources that other “uptown” schools wouldn’t lack. Throughout the essay he gives the reader statistics of the demography of schools in different areas of the east coast. This really helps the reader understand his point of how racial

I say that segregation is the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. Many Americans don’t want to admit it, but I’ll say that segregation is still around, sometimes by design and sometimes by choice. According to a study last year, 43% of Latinos and 38% of blacks go to schools where less than 10% of their peers are white, but beyond that, we often fail to talk about how segregation impacts us personally. How it permeates not only many of our public and private institutions, but American culture at large easily talk about culture or social segregation an area that we have control over, via the restaurants we patronize, the bars we drink at and the places we worship. People who have studied race, spent months abroad in India or Africa, tasted the best fufu and mofongo, read Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Pablo Neruda, and who may even have black “friends” or lovers, still too often manage to have a community that doesn't reflect diversity in their broader city or

With the advancement of thinking in the United States since the Jim Crow era, shouldn’t school segregation be a thing of the past? Well, this is an ongoing epidemic in the United States, and it has a dangerous effect on the youth. School segregation rates are at an all time high, and the main reason for this increase is residential segregation, or segregation of neighborhoods. Although school segregation can be a result of economic policy, housing policies have a greater influence on segregation. Many neighborhoods that are classified as low income, have a negative connotation attached with them. This causes a difference in funding of schools located in those districts, and those students end up paying the price.

Upon thinking about segregation, Jim Crow laws come to mind. It is commonly mistaken that it is abolished, but there are ways that segregation continues to exist. It continues to exist in L.A, just not in the way of laws segregating them, it exists through marginalization. African Americans and Latinos are pushed into certain areas to live amongst each other while Anglos stay among specific areas, as well. There are several factors that contribute to this form of segregation such as: the amount of damaged properties, isolation of the "underclass", poverty rising in these areas, the conditions of the city, the lack of retail stores, and employment. Always Running, a memoir by Luis J. Rodriguez, shows different aspects of marginalization through the school 's Luis attended, the jobs he sustained, and the neighborhoods he resided

Segregation is a topic that has been discussed for decades. Segregation in schools wasn't really dealt with. The government basically disguised it and kept it away from the public. Brown V. Board of Education, Plessy V. Ferguson, and Jim Crow Laws was the cover, but it didn't solve anything. Segregation isn't just about race, it's also financially. When money is involved in the situation there's a major advantage. Johnathan Kozol talks about how we're still separate, and unequal. Johnathan Kozol touched on some really great points, when it came down to gproving how we're separate, and unequal. Kozol digs a little deeper to back up his word on being separate and unequal. In the following paragraphs I will

Happening mostly during the peaceful times, segregation is a scar on the body of the United States of America that seems to heal but still disturbs even decades after. Not slaves anymore, at the beginning of the XX century black people were still not equal members of the society. During the Great Migration, African Americans moved from the Southern states where they resided historically to the North, where industrial cities that offered more jobs were located. Despite the fact that black people could pursue most of the careers available for white people, including artistic pathways, the demands of the society and the expectations from the black professionals were not equal to those from whites (The Civil Rights Act of

In this case, segregation is still happening to this day. It’s segregation through school systems, and neighborhoods and we don’t realize it. The blacks stay with the blacks, and the whites stay with the whites. Blacks do not have the same opportunities as the white people, as far as jobs and education. Most black kids have public schools, and it isn’t the superlative because the teachers don’t care about your skill level. I know that because I go to a public school. Some teachers cared and some didn’t, a teacher is supposed to help whenever you’re struggling. And most

School segregation laws are just a meager portion of the many times in history where America did not know what they were doing, in terms of enforcing equality. There is no doubt that there have been plenty of substantial moments in American history that facilitated the progress made since its liberation from Great Britain, but true greatness lies in the future America. The America where all children, regardless of their race, get a proper education and a fighting chance at an extraordinary life. The America that chooses to stand together and support one another, rather than divide

The American sociological review does not regard white flight to have ended or the society to have become more accommodating. The Brown vs. Board of education was a culmination of the inequality from the authorities in the manner that services were accorded to different groups. The issues that made the different racial groups desire to live apart are still relevant but the flight is not as pronounced. Fifty years ago, a commission was constituted to investigate the cause of racial tension during the white flight (Semuels, 2017). It discovered that the Black community was segregated, which led to the existence of two societies. The situation has not changed since then. America is still divided. The American sociological review released a report that indicated segregation is still widespread (Semuels, 2017). In fact, it is more pronounced with clear black areas and white areas that exist in suburbs and cities. However, metropolitan areas are experiencing a decline in

Today, segregation does not exist anymore, however racism still does. People's real freedom can be stolen when civil rights come in. Such as shown before that black people were denied certain rights, these were stolen by the law who were unjust because they were not white. Their life, liberty and pursuit of happiness rights still belonged to them. However, they were just treated disrespectfully. Once again, the idea of racism can be applied. Today, in America, everyone has the God-given rights. In the eyes of the law, everyone is also treated equally. However, when a person is filled with racism, they take away the freedom of that person's right to be totally free. Therefore, people, no matter who will always be in chains because they can not break away from other people's restrictions.

As I learn more about the realities of education, there was one issue that sparked my interest and passion – segregation. Though it is difficult to see first-hand, I can definitely see remnants of segregation through comparison of resources available at schools I’ve worked at. My belief that education serves as an accessible tool for social mobility led me to explore the issue of segregation with the perspective of a future educator. Over 50 years ago in the Brown v. Board of Education case, the Supreme Court deemed that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. With this in mind, I was under the impression that schools were not segregated (at least to a far lesser extent). However, I was shocked to learn that segregation in schools