Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian By Sherman Alexie

In the Holocaust, millions of people were killed due to their religious beliefs. Millions of others were killed based ethnic background, too. Ethnicity was the main factor and motivation for discrimination in all societies. When a person is discriminated against, especially in situations like the Holocaust, there is little to do to get out of this problem. Social injustice is the ignorance against or mistreatment of a certain group of people. This is carried out by the majority of society and through social stereotypes. When somebody is discriminated against, it means one person treats another in an inferior way. In the the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the young adult fiction book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie,

Most are made for them to fail or fall into a bad life. When Indians do not follow this, people are shocked, or surprised by them succeeding. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, many people seeing Indians as failures. When Mr. P visited Junior’s house he confessed that he mistreated Indians. He was upset and told Junior he had to get out of the Reservation. Junior had to leave for his family, tribe, and for Mr.P. "‘You killed Indians?’ ‘No, no, it's just a saying. I didn't literally kill Indians. We were supposed to make you give up being Indian. Your songs and stories and language and dancing. Everything. We weren't trying to kill Indian people. We were trying to kill Indian culture.’ Man, at that second, I hated Mr. P hard” (Alexie 35). Mr.P, Junior’s teacher, had mistreated and discriminated against the Indian culture. He was encouraged to ‘beat the Indian out of them.’ in his teachings. As the coach of a totally white high school, the coach has never seen too much diversity. The coach had never seen an Indian in his school, let alone try out for the team and be good. He was shocked to see someone like Junior be so good at basketball. “Coach was thinking I would be an all-state player in a few years. He was thinking maybe I'd play some small-college ball. It was crazy. How often does a reservation Indian kid hear that? How often do you hear the words "Indian" and "college" in the same sentence?” (Alexie 180). In a predominately white school, people do not have high expectations for Native American students. It is not expected that Junior has skills in a sport; therefore, people are shocked to see this. It creates stereotypes against their culture that they cannot do anything productive or go to college. When Junior showed up at Reardan, he was greeted by people who were not familiar with his culture. When he told a few girls his name, they laughed. This was a common name