Everyone wants someone to point the finger towards. For instance, currently the United States is facing a large number of unemployed citizens. Those without jobs might put blame on the socio-economic struggle on immigrants and aliens, who just happen to be Hispanic. The main reasons for this particular group receiving so much hate falls on two concerns. The first, there are large groups of illegal South Americans coming through the Mexican border annually, who potentially take jobs from native white Americans who remain jobless.
50% of the samples were working middle class, 25% were upper elite class and 25% indicated that they were working poor class. All participants indicated that they have experienced discrimination or have discriminated against someone else in their life. About half of the sample indicated that they experienced discrimination the most in the work environment. Thirty percent indicated that they had experience sexual harassment from someone in a higher position. Forty percent indicated that lack of education about wealth and saving attributed to their current economic status.
ABSTRACT Economic discrimination is a plague that affects many minorities. As a minority group, do homosexuals also experience economic discrimination? This paper explores the topic by researching workforce factors such as job, wage, and income inequality. From the research acquired, homosexuals are found to experience discrimination in the workforce as they are not, for the most part, protected by equal employment acts. It is harder for homosexuals to find and keep positions, and employers often treat them differently.
By doing so the school district, whether unintentional or not, alienated qualified teachers of other races. This includes the majority race of the students, in favor of white teachers. One major example of institutional racism is in our legal system. According to the FBI Homicide Table 3, in 2010 there were 4,849 white offenders convicted of murder and 5,770 black offenders convicted of murder. Considering African Americans make up only 13.1% of the American population, these numbers are astonishing.
Being at a store close to downtown must really mean that having a Hispanic speak to American in their native language is crossing their territory. Being Hispanic must mean that I am an illegal immigrant from Cuba or Mexico. Being Hispanic must mean that when there’s an increase in poverty, crime and teen pregnancies, I must have something to do with it, or my mom must have debuted on Dr. Phil screaming at her “baby daddy” for child support. And of course, when applying to a scholarship for being Hispanic, the essay topic would be to write about the challenges in my life and how I overcame them, because you know, I am Hispanic and therefore my life has to be complicated. I must have had a set of obstacles that others don’t and risen above.
Throughout the nation’s history, race has always been characterized by color, power, and society. Race has played a vital role in the lives of Americans and immigrants heading to America in nearly every decade since the eighteenth century. The treatment of different races has heavily depended on people’s perception, which would imply that race is a construction of society more so than biology. When we think of racial issues or racial inequality, most people refer to the civil rights movement of the 1960’s and predominantly think of it in terms of whites versus blacks. However, African Americans were not the only race to be subject to segregation and hardship in America.
Racism is the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. Racism has evolved throughout the years. From the Los Angeles Rodney King beating to the slaying of Michael Brown in St. Louis, law enforcement officials continue making racism an issue within the world. People don’t always understand what the officer faces, though. Police Officers must make quick determinations of wrong doing in most situations.
Changes in gender and age of workers has had a significant impact on the culture of today and influenced the pattern of work related standards such as work ethics (Chicago Tribune Business 2014). Stereotyping is the act of ascribing a set of traits to a person or group of people based on cultural preconceptions (Forbes global post). When stereotypes persist in the workplace, candidates for promotion may be overlooked, work teams do not function properly and the corporate culture erodes. In many cases, lawsuits are brought up, thus damaging the public perception of the company. Most companies deal with stereotyping in the workplace by educating as well as a clear directive to treat every worker as an individual.
Among the major findings: * One in eight of the nation's young people live in California. Three-fifths of those in the age group are people of color, and almost half are immigrants or the children of immigrants. As the report cites, "This poll paints a portrait of a generation coming of age in a society of unprecedented racial and ethnic diversity -- the first global society this country has seen." * Twenty-four percent of the respondents consider the breakdown of the family to be the most pressing issue facing their generation today, followed by violence in neighborhoods and communities, and then poverty and global warming. However, several significant differences among racial and ethnic groups existed.
(OCDE 2006) In the past Americans have placed blame on immigrants for social and economic instabilities. We have seen anti-Semitism, racism, segregation and various other forms of discrimination toward immigrants for decades. As a result a sense of “otherness” has developed towards particular minority groups, creating a separation between “us” as citizens, and “them” as immigrants. Intern this separation has fostered social diasporas amongst generations. Currently American society is establishing the same sense of “otherness” as we have seen in the past towards Latino’s, our most recent immigrants to the United States.