Racial Equality: “A North Star Yet to Shine” ------------------------------------------------- Abstract: This writing will look into Howard Winant’s Racism: From Domination to Hegemony, along with the photographs of Nikki S. Lee’s “Hip-Hop Project” and “Hispanic Project.” Howard Winant discusses the ways in which racism has changed and why superiority among races will still exist in his writing. Winant defines racism as “the routinized outcome of practices that create or reproduced hierarchical social structures based on essentialized racial categories” (129). Those in a higher social structure often view those who come from a lower social structure differently. As a result, this can lead to racism. Winant describes the new idea of racial hegemony as one that “operates in societies and institutions that explicitly condemn prejudice and discrimination” (128).
To each and every Puritan colonist, there was no greater objective than the acquisition of moral perfection. Puritan life revolved around perfection and contained many rules for right and wrong. God hovered over Puritans, governing their successes, failures, and positions throughout life. At the same time, he also punished, shunned, and rejected those who did not abstain from sin and did not lead virtuous lives. In his Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin recognized the merit of the virtuous life that Puritan colonist hold so dear.
He provides readers with a definition of this term that may seem unfamiliar to many – “the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behaviour based on very narrow slices of experience”. The author goes on to discuss how these impressions can be changed with much concerted effort. The subject matter remains of current interest as the issues of racism, social inequality and stereotyping that are still very prevalent in societies of today come to the forefront when he states, “if you are a white person who would like to treat black people as equals in every way, it requires more than a simple commitment to equality. It requires that you change your life”. This statement may also suggest that while the article is written for a wide audience, the style is more geared towards the attitude of Caucasians to black minorities.
Extrinsic – external. Catholic perspective: free will – ability to choose, decisions. Community – social beings: respect dignity. Freedom is INTRINSIC based upon eternal moral codes: Decalogue 10, Beatitudes 12 Conscience – Free Will: moral compass. Ability to make a choice, conscience is a judgment, follow your conscience: must be educated and informed, conscience may be “incorrect”, sanctuary – core – to meet God
Being that Christians and non-Christians are both susceptible to life’s problems, watching how they respond to them shows a superior quality of life in the Christian. This response difference is because of the differences in the attitude toward adversity. When a non-Christian encounters a problem, it is just one more on top of the list of obstacles that already exist in their “Me against the world” belief system. Christians indeed believe that they have a helper in times of adversity that will see them through in Jesus Christ. Matt 11:28-30 Quotes Jesus “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Is France a racist country? Explain your answer in relation to contemporary immigration/integration debates. The question of whether France is a ‘racist’ country is indeed a palpable one. There are certainly a number of aspects one could draw upon to answer this question and yet no produced answer will be blatant or clearly correct. However through the political actions of the nations leaders, its difficult to deny that there exists some form of racism within France.
Presumed guilty, he is asked to prove his liberal credentials before his reasonable arguments are even given a hearing. The comments below the line reflect not just the willingness of people to argue that the right to live free from racism is conditional, but also the view people from some ethnic and religious minorities are somehow less worthy of rights and require higher levels of sanctions. On no account do I seek to justify the narrow-minded and scurrilous activities of some in our communities, black, white or Asian, who seek to perpetuate disadvantage on the basis of sexual identity, ethnic background or gender. I've long been a supporter of work to challenge homophobia in black communities such as the excellent Say My Name and UK Black Pride. Few would argue that because homophobia remains a problem in black communities that we should not tackle the racism that contributes to the fact that there will be three times as many young black men in prison this year than in Russell Group universities.
RACISM AND ETHNICITY QUESTION: TO WHAT EXTENT AND HOW DOES INSTITUTIONAL RACISM OPERATE IN ONE OF THE FOLLOWING, POLICING, SCHOOLING, HOUSING/URBAN REGENRATGION THE MASS MEDIA. The principle aim of this essay is to explain the impact of institutional racism and to what extent it operates in policing in UK. Racism is any negative actions or words that are aimed at demeaning other people denying them opportunities base on their racial background. The believe that other people have superior traits than other has led to the rise of racism in the society and that includes United Kingdom (Muji & Solomon, 2010). Institutional racism ensures that people of different races receive different treatment and opportunities in public services within the society and it also denied other things such as benefits, rewards that other individual might be entitle to in normal cases.
People who are trying to apply this broad, deep, Christian version of the word love/agape. People are flawed, jealous, greedy, have agendas, if all rules can be overridden by giving the excuse that it is done with love, then what is the point of making ethical judgements at all? If you look at case studies and apply a couple of different ethical theories to them as well as analyzing them from a situation ethic's perspective you will see the benefit of it as a theory as it basically states that 'All moral decisions are hypothetical, the only decision is to decide what the most loving thing to do is' and the end always justifies the means. Situational ethics are about real life events, they are applied to the outcomes of each real life acts and judged individually. The only moral compass, as rules can be broken and overridden, is Agape.
Rights and Responsibilities The Catholic tradition teaches that human dignity can be protected and a healthy community can be achieved only if human rights are protected and responsibilities are met. Therefore, every person has a fundamental right to life and a right to those things required for human decency. Corresponding to these rights are duties and responsibilities to one another, to our families, and to the larger society. 4. Option for the Poor and Vulnerable A basic moral test is how our most vulnerable members are faring.