If one doesn’t know what discrimination means, it’s when one group treats another group a certain way basic on certain things they may dislike. Therefore, most people today wonder why Irish American immigrants were discriminated and why they put up with discrimination. Among those people discriminating were homeland natives. For example, Kerby A. Miller quoted, “Many Americans considered the Irish as dirty, stupid and lazy” (322). In others words, Americans felt Irish Americans immigrants happened to be lazy drunks and didn’t belong here.
Sikh males usually wear turbans, which are stereotypically associated with Muslims by many Westerners. Being an American myself I could level and understand why other Americans were outraged and upset in result of the 9/11 attacks but I find it disgusting and ignorant that innocent people with mid eastern decent were being targeted and discriminated because of there ethnicity. I feel as though this proves that we are no better than Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups who fight fire with fire. Instead of actually making a difference and being a positive influence for your country and the new
We have the ignorance of the Klu Klux Klan, the fear of Hitler and the Jews and the whites against the Native Americans. Racism boils down to how educated individuals are. The more educated one is, you learn that each race has bad and good in them. It seems that racism is huge among individuals who are down on their luck and are looking for someone to blame for their problems. Honestly, racism is ignorance.
Sotomayor, who made the fiction film about immigration and the struggles illegal immigrants had to go through once they arrived to the United States. It was a film that portrayed the issue of racial hatred by showing how Americans (white people) viewed and discriminated Mexicans that came to the United States illegally. In the film, it seems that Americans feel that Mexicans are taking their jobs and getting paid half of what an American person would normally get paid for doing the exact same job. An older man believed that Mexicans had no right to be there because they didn’t know English and were ignorant people who didn’t deserve to be equal with Americans. In fact they only crossed the border to have a better life, not to harm anyone.
This idea “deemphasized differences and emphasizes instead the need to disregard diversity and accept immigrants as Americans as long as they learned to speak English and became citizens. The most common expression of the melting pot perspective today is the argument that people should be color blind, that people should ignore a person’s skin color.” (p. 169) Different races of color are offended by the color blind attitude because they feel like it implies negativity about their race. People of color feel as though there is no way nor is there a cause for white people to be oblivious to their color of skin. Separatism: started in the early 1920’s and is the most pessimistic of the four attitudes towards diversity. It is the easiest to recognize because “separatists
Seven out of nine witnesses that testified against Davis said they were coerced into providing a false testimony. This is an example of being falsely punishing by executing a man that didn’t have a Fair trial. If the Davis trial was switch around in terms of the officers killing him what would be their sentence, or would they just receive a slap on the wrist? In many
Person Percy Mr. Mister Essay #3 August 1st, 2013 American Ethics Stereotypes are something that we all hate, all are aware of, yet somehow, all have. Being Americans we sometimes allow ourselves to get so isolated as to think that we only hold stereotypes of ourselves and of other nationalities as a whole. However, what we fail to acknowledge is that we are not the only country who maintain such stereotypes on this Earth. As a matter of fact, when comparing the stereotypical “American” to citizens of foreign nations one could make a strong argument that we as a society actually have the worst stereotypes. Mexico, is one of these countries that strongly holds a negative view of the stereotypical Amrican.
Many similarities can be found between the way in which German Americans were treated during World War I and the way Muslim Americans were treated after the 9/11 terrorist attack. German Americans suffered discrimination during a war they had nothing to do with and the same unfair treatment happened with Islamic and Arab Americans after the 9/11 attacks. This was widespread and hurt many innocent people solely because of people’s ignorance and racism. The discrimination of German Americans started when they stood up and labeled themselves anti-war. This caused the people and President Wilson to question their loyalty to America.
Linguistically ignorant "We’ve got to stop having America be the world’s most linguistically ignorant country." Stereotyping, the prejudgment of others based on their race, color, sex, and religion, is also another of the many forms of racism. This is due to the fact that many people do not understand exactly what stereotyping is and how badly it affects others. Mexicans are faced with many discriminatory stereotypes in their life’s that have gone unnoticed. Because they are different, and because they are not understood, they are stereotyped.
However what had formerly been viewed as a charity program aimed at helping helpless mothers, and females, was now being seen as a waste of time and money. America’s increasing economic problem caused great resentment toward welfare programs and to their recipients. White middle class America did not like the ideas of their tax money going to support other, especially when many of the white middle class had full time jobs. Nationalized reports of welfare fraud were all it took to convince the middle class that all welfare recipients were lying and cheating the system. Americans who felt overtaxed had something to blame it on now the more they resented welfare the worse the stereotype became, soon they were all drug users, who never intended to work just live off welfare, and the only reason that their children were starving is that they were spending the money on other things.