Category: Discrimination

The terms prejudice and racism are normally used simultaneously with discrimination and other terms like stereotyping or racial bias. Discrimination describes a situation when equal treatment lacks other people are treated differently due to issues like gender, sexual orientation, skin color, and race, among others. In most cases, racism is the cause of other factors…

Newspapers started to report stories of individuals who changed their gender identities and concealed their birth sex approximately since the middle of the 19th century. According to McCauley (2016), those stories were primarily about women who tried to “pass” as men rather than about men who assumed female identities. At that time, there was no…

Table of Contents Case Elements of a Hostile Work Environment Can John Make a Complaint Ability to Protect the Employer Progress of the Complaint Process References Case Elements of a Hostile Work Environment It is evident that any employee of the company wants their workplace to be distinguished not only by its benefits and privileges…

Racism is a significant problem many people have to face in today’s reality. I agree with Kendi’s statement that anti-racism is a dynamic state. When gathering data using one point at a time or multiple points, it is possible to conclude that the one-time or multiple-time observations are reliable if the data is dependable. Data…

Table of Contents Introduction Racism Against African Americans Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Color blindness is an issue that faces prominent controversies to promote unity. Racism causes marginalization based on categorizing ethnic groups either as superior or inferior (Alhumam 160). Over the decades, African Americans encountered discrimination based on color distinction against the whites. Discrimination highly…

According to experts, every year, about 30 million people stay in prison or closed correctional facilities, and one in five of them are imprisoned for drug-related crimes. UNAIDS estimates that people in prison are five times more likely to become infected with HIV. The World Health Organization (WHO) claims the difference as even more striking,…

I still remember the first time I went to an American diner. My older cousin Briana, my younger cousin Gabriel, and I did not see each other often back then. Briana and I lived in Costa Rica, while Gabriel was a local. We were famished and were not too meticulous about the choice of a…

God created all men and women to be equal. Some of us are more equal than others, however. For a nation that has the line “In God We Trust” on its bills, the US has certainly become one of the last refuges of widespread racism. It is hard to believe that just 50 years ago,…

Table of Contents Introduction Emotions Changing Social Norms Intergroup Contact Consciousness-Raising and Self-Regulation Co-operative Learning Entertainment and News and Print Media Conclusion References Introduction Prejudice is a societal phenomenon that manifests as a hostile or negative attitude towards people because they belong to a specific group. Even though bias manifests in irrational opinions and views,…

After colonizing the Americas, the race became institutionalized in North American English Colonies once the colonizers realized they were superior to the Natives. As argued by Bulhan (2015), the Europeans, on realizing the new opportunities available in North America, discovered the only way to exploit the Natives was through cultural domination. Moreover, the established differences…