As sociologist Douglas S. Massey has said, “segregation is a key cause of poverty because where one lives determines much about the life chances one faces." And this in the United States is "Created by White prejudice, Actualized by discriminatory behavior and Condoned, if not supported, by government." Today both, in the US and in Europe as well, overt racism is replaced by “politically correct behavior” and the reality of social relations has been rarified. This has made the evil of racism omnipresent, omnipotent but still invisible. It is to the credit of White societies, that, this art is not only universalized but its social reproduction is also ensured.
Is College Debt Worth It? We all grow up being exposed to the thought of college being full of parties, drinking, and a whole lot of sex. As a college student, I can attest that the exposure we’ve experienced is true, but there is one thing that the media has failed to mention: College debt is real and obtaining a degree doesn’t mean you’ll have employers throwing copious amounts of money at you. In the article “Debt Education: Bad for the Young, Bad for America”, written by Jeffrey J. Williams, data shows that tuition has increased at roughly three times the rate of inflation. Inflation aside, this means college is getting more expensive.
Losing Sight of Affirmative Action Terry Eastland’s essay, Ending Affirmative Action, makes a compelling yet distasteful argument about the proposal of putting an end to affirmative action due to the negative experiences encountered. In a positive effort to support this proposal, he explains how preferential treatment is now being given to minorities and because of this preference and how generalizations are made about minority achievement based on the misconception that affirmative action allows “lower standards” with the accompaniment of underrepresented ethnicity in order to fill a race appropriate quota. Thus, harming the image of today’s minority community by the mere suggestion that a person received a
People tend to assume the existence of race as an inferior fact yet it exists as a major problem within the community. As evident from the history of many nations, the ethics of race continues to increase coldly as generation passes. This, supremely, interferes with the development of various projects (Appiah and Gutmann
Our country prides itself on encouraging its citizens to better themselves through education. (P) While its priority has been high school graduation, many jobs now require college degrees, making higher education more important than ever. While I understand that every American should be expected to sacrifice during this hard time, just as we were in World War II, I feel that this particular sacrifice would put our country in an even worse state. (S) Our work force will not be prepared to handle nor understand the advancements that we have strived so hard to achieve. College is made to prepare students with the newest information possible, so that we can constantly be improving ourselves and be able continue to compete with the world’s leading nations.
One of the hottest topics is the SAT scores. Clinton said that the SAT is a good prediction of success in college, but they in fact are not perfects predictions. The debate about Affirmative Action is because the law is not applied fairly example where a couple years ago three minority students got accepted in Penn State University with paid tuition and they were not successful during the whole semester. Now this was a waist of money that other students could have used for their tuition. There is still a lot of discrimination in this society that we live today, specially towards blacks and latinos.
The main effect is that ethnic stereotypes affect their normal life and bring so much inconvenience to them. Then, part of stereotypes increase cultural conflict and racial discrimination. It is difficult for people to get together and make friends with others. Meanwhile, we pay more attention on characteristics that stereotypes describe and ignore the special thing of each of us. In conclusion, although racial stereotypes talk about the advantages about them like the whiz-kid, they also have negative effects to people and the
Sadly, some individuals believe that another person is less human than them. Some of the most common causes of racism are skin, color, language, customs or place of birth. Racial prejudice deals with terrible and hostile pre-judgments, opinions, and actions towards a race. Moreover, racism has some devastating effects. It can destroy a person’s self esteem, community cohesion and even creates divisions in society.
If another student or applicant for a job is more capable and eligible for the spot but is given to someone in the “minority group,” doesn’t this create resentment from the more capable applicant? Although government is trying to reverse years of discrimination it actually may be nurturing it without even seeing the serious side effects it may be evoking. To be completely free of racism, discrimination, prejudice, and all the above we need to take away the labels. There shouldn’t be a “minority group,” everyone is equal and that is how we should move forward. If we say one person is weaker than the other, than our own government is instilling in us what we have tried to eradicate for years.
The forth effect is Gender confusion. Effects transgender to community are centered on their jobs because they are have qualified but when they are convert genders, they are still considered "male" or "female" in their identity cards. On the other hand, they are not been able to get employment because of the dressing not same in their