As Europeans, they came from countries that, although quite poor, had very good education opportunities. As part of the mainstream culture, my ethnic group also took part in the discrimination against racial and ethnic minorities, including the African-Americans, the Hispanic-Americans, the Asians or the Native Americans. As part of the white group in America, the Scots presumably inflicted most of the forms of discrimination upon the racial and ethnic minorities, from the extremely overt and violent domination of the African-Americans during the period of slavery, to the more recent forms of discrimination, such as redlining, institutional discrimination, glass ceiling, environmental justice problems and so on. The English and the Scots formed the first great waves of immigration into the United States, and along with their settlements they also established their supremacy over the other racial or ethnic minorities. These problems are reflected in a number of Immigration Acts that were issued during the twentieth century to prevent other ethnic groups such as the Chinese or the Latin Americans to enter the countries. Moreover, all the other forms of discrimination that aimed at keeping the minority groups into subordinate positions and that denied them equal rights were initialed by the white Europeans who had been the earliest settlers. It is also known that the Scots in colonial America have participated in the slave trade throughout the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries (Landsman 2001, p.60) Overall, the Scots that immigrated into the States were soon assimilated...
In the gradually growing diversity of the United States, the European descendents have become numerically inferior over the years, but the discrimination and the prejudice against racial otherness has not decreased significantly. Forms of discrimination still exist and they are manifested especially on the education and labor market, where the people belonging to a minority group may find it much harder to become integrated than a white person. Thus, it can be said that many forms of intolerance and overt discrimination still exist at the root of the social system. These culminate with acts of violence and racial hatred which assume that the members of a certain group are not only inferior but also dangerous. It is very difficult for racial discrimination to desist since there are still ingrained attitudes towards otherness and difference in general. I think that all should feel part of the large multicultural group rather than be isolated according to racial or ethnic criteria.
according to the results, "in the early history of the exchange, Jewish and German applicants were significantly more likely to be rejected, while Irish applicants were slightly favored. The advent of the WWI in 1914 raised the probability that applicants with German names would be rejected by 10%." At the beginning, the German ethnicity was kept away from labor market discrimination thanks to their significant skills. However, the political and
This is because our authority figures are tainted by the same prejudices and discrimination that affect everyone. Thus, preventing these events would have only been possible if the police in the Rodney King instance didn't act in this manner toward an African-American, and in the Chicago instance, if the police would have arrested the white rock thrower in the first place. References Bush, G. (1992, May 1). Address to the nation
" Additional Information on Irish-Americans: The U.S. Census 2000 reflects that there are approximately 34,688,723 Irish-Americans presently living in this country, which is quite a bit down from the 1990 Census of 40,165,702. There is only one group (ethnic group) in the U.S. that is larger than the Irish-American group, and that is German-Americans. Irish-Americans are both Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants; Irish Catholics are concentrated in large cities throughout the north
Exclusion Deutsch, Sarah. 1987. No separate refuge: culture, class, and gender on an Anglo-Hispanic frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940. New York: Oxford University Press. Race has excluded people of color and ethnic groups in the Southwest. Deutsch draws parallels with all forms of subjugation around the world. Hispanic identity in particular was viewed as a threat by white Americans. White Americans began to cling to nativism, which was a theory that
Racial Ethnic Groups, Richard T. Schaefer, Thirteenth Edition. The term paper required a minimum 5 pages, double spaced, size 12 font, computer generated. This year marked the 65th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that supports equal rights and liberties for everyone, regardless of race, gender, language, religion, nationality, etc. Nothing as atrocious as the two wars has ever happened since the declaration was adopted in 1948. Nevertheless,
Blacks or African-American Groups and compare / contrast them with Whites people on the following characteristics: depiction in firms, treatment in society, and employment and education. Depiction in Films The mass media have long influenced the popular image of minorities. From the 19th century's journalism and ethnic cartoons to the imagery of contemporary movies and television, the mass media have contributed powerfully to the way that minority groups are viewed, including
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