If nations are involved, it can lead to imminent war. Different communication styles can lead to misunderstandings between employees, individuals or friends, and nations as well. A lack of communication can drive conflict underground. This entire world is made up of individuals and nations who see things differently. Everybody has different values.
Why do people label and group other people? I think people label and group other people because they are discomfortable with themselves. People tend to speak negative of others to make themselves stand out and give other peoples a bad reputation. This help them feel better about themselves. Some people try to place other people in the same group as them even if wrong.
D’Souza acknowledges that while there are many materialistic gains to be made in the American society the desire for immigration and the commonly held views of America has a more prominent reason, the American dream is a dream based on freedom. It is not necessarily a literal freedom from oppression but a freedom of choice, a freedom to create one’s own destiny. D’Souza’s most powerful and agreeable argument is that the Americans simply have a better standard of living in comparison to most countries. In many countries throughout the world living conditions cannot be changed. No amount of hard work or experience can change something that you were born into.
Many found this to be stifling. 24. In the case of Willie, he was offended at having to take professional orders from a woman, even in the workplace. This felt like an attack on his dignity and defied his cultural idea of masculinity. 25.
There are four types of discrimination, the first is individual discrimination. Individual discrimination is the behaviour of one person to another or a group of people, the next is institutional discrimination; this is when discrimination is built into the way the institution is run. Next is overt discrimination, this is when an individual or institution knowingly treats someone unfairly on the bias of race, gender, etc. The last is covert discrimination, this discrimination in subtle, for example applying criteria that people will be unable to meet, this type can be intentional or unintentional. Discrimination can be seen in practise with stereotyping, labelling, disempowering, abusing, bullying, abuse of power, infringements of rights and over-riding individual’s rights.
Prejudiced views between cultures may result in racism; in its extreme forms, racism may result in genocide, such as occurred in Germany with the Jews, in Rwanda between the Hutus and Tutsis and, more recently, in the former Yugoslavia between the Bosnians and Serbs. Henri Tajfel proposed that stereotyping is based on a normal cognitive process – the tendency to group things together. In doing so, we tend to exaggerate the differences between groups and the similarities of things in the same group. We categorize people in the same way. We see the group to which we belong (the in-group) as being different from the others (the out-group), and members of the same group as being more similar than they are.
While wage, sexual gender, racial, ethnic, and employment discrimination are major offenders of one’s moral rights as a citizen, language discrimination is the least known type of discrimination. It is the silent type of discrimination. This could be because most minorities are uneducated and feel threatened if they complain. Language discrimination occurs when a person is not treated the same because of their native language or other characteristics of that person’s speech. One example of this would be when the employee does not speak English and it is company policy.
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
Jenee Buchwalder Mrs. Leirssano Seminar Advanced English 1, 2 13 April 2010 The Effects of Media with Character Restrictions on the English Language Text messaging abbreviations tend to have a negative connotation to them, based on irritated English teachers who have witnessed various errors due to them. Nonetheless, there have always been people trying to “up the ante” by taking it a step further. Take IMO, for instance. These words have been transformed into IMHO, IMCO, IMHBCO, and IMNSHO (in my humble/considered/humble but considered/not so humble opinion, respectively) (Txtng 53). David Crystal indicates, “This is a form of language play... [the desire to] outdo what has been done before.” This type of minor changes of words are a prime example of the effects of text messaging media on the English language.
Differences in dialects can highlight social differences between men and women and between different ethnic groups. This can promote prejudice and associate negative connotations with different ways of speaking. However, they can also be viewed as a characteristic that makes a particular culture unique. When certain categories of people speak in ways that are not expected, a subversion of power and prejudice occur. I can recount a personal experience of how differences in language can promote prejudice in gender.