Category: Discrimination

  • Divisiveness and Mismatching in Anti-Racism

    Introduction The year 2018 is promising to be a very politically active year in the USA. With the rising tensions among various strata in the American society and the ongoing campaign against police shootings and inequality, affirmative action is on the rise. Many people are willing to stand up for what they believe in and…

  • The Issues of Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia

    Racism, sexism, and homophobia are more evident in white communities and other religious groups that have difficulty drawing the same levels of public disgrace. However, each is increasingly being used in competition with another (Stockdill & Danico, 2016). To most people, any of the three forms of prejudice is an attempt to use someone else’s…

  • Ethical Considerations on Affirmative Action: Racism

    The high level of relevance of race issues in the United States has continuously imposed equality considerations on multiple levels of human interactions. From the ethical point of view, the historically conditioned omnipresence of racism and racial or gender inequality in the US triggers the necessity of providing equal opportunity for all. Affirmative action as…

  • The Impact of Racism on Globalization

    Abstract The term globalization has been used in the literal sense to mean the transformation process of regional phenomenon into global phenomenon where the entire world’s population is united into a single society.Globalization combines forces of the economy, technology, sociology and politics. In most cases, Globalization term is used to simply refer to as “Economic…

  • Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice

    As a rule, when we talk about combating racism and discrimination, we are talking about the system’s problems faced by people because of race or ethnicity, their sexual orientation, gender, or age. Thus, usually, we talk about racism, homophobia, sexism, and ageism. However, these concepts do not limit the scope of discrimination, and often discriminatory…

  • Fighting Racism Behavior Towards the Latino Community

    Introduction For centuries, people of color in the United States of America have faced systemic racism that has been a barrier for these minorities to get access to many essential goods and services. The public health system is one of the most prominent representatives of racial inequality, which consequently significantly affects that state of body…

  • Discrimination of Muslim American Women

    Introduction Addressing acute problems that specific strata of the population face are an activity that allows arousing social interest in particular groups and drawing attention to their issues and challenges. As a category for analysis and evaluation, I have selected Muslim women living in the United States of America. The reason I have chosen this…

  • Racial Discrimination and Economic Revival

    Table of Contents Introduction Discussion Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Racism is one of the most contentious issues in America and most of the Western world and is the cause of distinct differences between people from various backgrounds. America has been dealing with the issue of racism for several years now, but the prevalence of the…

  • Australian Aborigines and Racial Discrimination

    Aborigines is the term used to describe the class of people defined by the law as being members of the race that originally settled the Australian continent before the arrival of Europeans. In legal terms, an Australian Aborigine has been defined as “a group of people who share, in common, biological ancestry back to the…

  • Modern Discrimination: Racism in the USA

    In the USA, there still exists widespread racism despite campaigns against the vice. People are subjected to discrimination because of differences in factors such as gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, race, culture, and political belief (Hebl et al. 258). Older people are at a higher risk of being discriminated against compared to younger people. An…