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    Most things in life are not guaranteed. However, a few things are like taxes and cafeteria food being of low quality. Students at Oberlin are complaining about the school’s cafeteria food is racist and “cultural appropriation”. Cultural appropriation is the act of taking another cultural group’s culture. In this case, it is from poorly made Asian foods like sushi and General Tso’s chicken. They claim that because these foods are poorly made, it is an insult to them and their culture. Most people

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    The Novel has been set in the South, in the 1930s, causing many major conflicts to easily occur between races, genders and society as an entirety. Afterall, Jim crow laws were in place, racism was thriving, gender roles were extremely apparent and societal ranking was far more accepted than we fortunately see today. Throughout daily life, one could find the embracement of social mores tremendously

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    When black women respond to racism they are responding with anger; the anger of exclusion, of unquestioned privilege of racial distortions, of silence ill-use, stereotyping, defensiveness, misnaming, and of betrayal. Black women may have a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially

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    literature of all times. Racism, under which race-related issues are mostly discussed, involves the belief in racial differences, which acts as a justification for non-equal treatment, or discrimination, of members of that race. The term can have varying and contested definitions in works of different forms, but it is commonly used negatively and is usually associated with race-based prejudice, violence, dislike, discrimination, or oppression. Sociologist David Wellman defines racism as a “culturally

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    in policies that govern relationships. Human variations in perception of various life concepts are navigated by understanding, knowledge and the meaning attached to issues. Poverty, racism, global warming, terrorism, disease, political and religious affiliations are among the issues that impinge human relations today. These problems are influenced with people’s knowledge about existence and what they consider to be valid. Thus, philosophy has manifested great contribution in helping people achieve

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    Mix-A-Lot’s ‘Baby Got Back’ original tone and taking black woman’s body approved and subject to the “satisfaction of those men and reclaims it for herself and women like her”. It also manages to do this without discriminating against people who “perpetuate racism and misogyny or oppressors”, such as the white feminists who further objectify “women of colour”. Instead, the song and video

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    Media and technology have such a great impact on society and how we perceive social systems and all the factors tied to them. Television shows have always been prevalent in touching upon topics in society pertaining to an array of things such as color, race, creed, interest group, sexuallity, political/religious affiliation, and many more. As time passes, television shows alter the topics in which they touch upon, as society grows and chances. As society becomes more tolerant and accepting of individuality

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    “La Migra” by Pat Mora is a poem that leads to the different points of view of two opposite personnels. This poem was that it had a very simple, common setting and situation. “And you have been spotted by the sun… I know this desert, where to rest,where to drink. (Mora 1191). This set of lines tells me that the poem took place somewhere near the border where typically people try to cross the border. When crossing the border, there are some lakes or some deserts, it all depends on which part you cross

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