The most common causes of discrimination are: sexual orientation, race, disability, religious beliefs, age, gender, and ethnicity. The competition for jobs, opportunity, and economic standing can also lead a dominate group do developing discriminatory policies and beliefs. Women often find themselves passed over in the work place. Minorities are often targeted by law enforcement and people of authority. Since the bombing of the World Trade Centers September the 11th 2001, many Muslim people have been single out as terrorist and often find themselves ill-treated in public setting.
Since September 11th, 2001 Arab Americans have been the target of discrimination. This has created an environment of tension among the American population and Arab Americans They have suffered serious hate crimes and labor discrimination by demotion leading to higher unemployment rates. Many Mosques and Muslim-owned business have been vandalized. . The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported a 1600% increase in hate crimes against the Arab American population in the year after the events of September 11th.
September 11, 2001 was one of the most horrific and historic events of all time. It has made the American citizens stereotype Muslims and those Arabs who appear to be Muslims in America. Those innocent Arabs are being “punished” because of the terrorist groups that are against America and what we stand for. In America, they are no longer looked at the same way; they are all looked at like terrorists and horrible people. The events of 9/11 have created hatred, fear, discrimination and Americans have begun racial profiling because of the Arabs who participated in the attacks.
In this paper we will examine the impact of 9/11 on Americans and the U.S. economy and why the U.S. responded to the terrorism by enacting the USA Patriot act to “protect” America, which had become a big controversial issue to Americans. Another topic we will discuss is the negative effects of the Patriot Act such as violating Americans civil liberties and how the government stereotyped and secretly arrested Arab or Muslim citizens. The tragedy of 9/11 has impacted America in many ways and ever since then, America has made a lot of changes to prevent another tragedy, such as the national security which is tighter than it has ever been in recent years, especially in airports. According to Jennie Wood’s article, she mentions that the airport has way too many restrictions on what to bring in the plane for every traveler, such as, “Liquids and toiletries have to be a certain size and placed in clear, sealed bags. No food or bottled water is allowed through security.
Hitler, Stalin, and the Bomb Hitler and Stalin both share the dubious distinction of being two of the most destructive figures throughout all of history. The atrocities committed between the two of them against innocent people runs up into the millions. With Hitler, his rage was derived from his disdain to any Jewish person around believe that they truly were inferior to him. Stalin had a deep fear of people rising up against him and killed a mass amount of his own people just to suppress that fear that the people in his country might soon rebel against him. During the time period in which their reigns each occurred, nuclear science was starting to make some of its biggest discoveries in history.
Vocabulary changed too “terrorism” “bomb” and “terror attacks” were terms used regularly and became a social norm with “war” being added to the list when Iraq was invaded. The acceptable images that were broadcast during this time were also changing the American use of a deck of cards as a hit list of people they wanted dead was a regular occurrence as were images of victories and injured soldiers. While all the graphic images were being beamed into our homes, printed in our newspapers and magazines the music industry was struggling with many radio stations choosing to censor music quite drastically. Many artists and bands had to change to avoid censorship. The attacks by Al Qaeda on September 11th were co-ordinated and calculated they hit the heart of capitalism and also the Pentagon another plane was ditched in a field in Pennsylvania which may have been heading for Washington D.C. almost three thousand people from many different countries were killed that day so the effects were felt world-wide.
The Iraq Study Group Report- A Rhetorical Analysis Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Islamic Militants and Mujahideen. These are all titles which have come to dominate and bring fear to many people around the world. A global war is is being fought, a war that has been slowly brewing and gathering strength since the fall of the last Caliphate, the Ottoman Empire. Perhaps the first modern face of what we now call Islamists was an Egyptian man by the name of Sayed Qutb, whose teachings would later be known to some as Qutbism which had similar goals as other revolutionaries which was to improve the lives of people with the overthrow of oppressive governments and the installation of just ones. Currently most if not all the superpowers in the world are involved in a fight against Islamic militants, this includes Russia fighting militants in Chechnya and surrounding areas since the early 90’s or China and the Philippines fighting a growing Islamic insurgency in their own land as well as
Event Analysis Can terrorist attacks impact foreign policies? Terrorist attacks such as the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States became a revolutionary shift in how the world collectively viewed ways to fight against terrorism on the of international politics level. Finding ways to safeguard its national interest became a major factor with the international relationships with other countries. September 11, 2001 was a horrific act of terrorism that was the most unexpected and worse terrorist attacks in history. Many people died that day, and many people today still mourn the losses.
It changed everything in the United States, from buisnesses to local markets. 9-11 also caused a lot of racism & hatred in the U.S. Its a date that changed history
Racial profiling is a form of discrimination by which law enforcement uses a person’s race or cultural background as the primary reason to suspect that the individual has broken the law. Racial profiling is a serious human rights problem affecting millions of people in the United States in even the most routine aspects of their daily lives. The debate over racial profiling has become a central element in a much larger history of adversarial relationships between the police and communities of color. Already-existing tensions between police and communities of color became heightened over the past two decades as allegations of racial profiling by law enforcement agents against people of color increased in number and frequency. A "profile" is a coherent set of facts - known conditions and observable behavior that indicate a particular individual may be engaged in criminal activity.