Today, most would think that all humans have equal rights. Unfortunately, though, women are still not treated as equal as men. Women do not get paid as much as men do, they are expected to stay home and take care of the children, and they do not have as many job opportunities as men do. All of this is in spite of the fact that women have been fighting for their rights in this country since the 1800s. Two of the most widely known speeches are “Ain’t I a Woman” and “Speech at Seneca Falls Convention.”
On July, 1, 1776 236 years ago, the second continental congress met in Philadelphia, and on the following day 12 of 13 colonies voted in favor of Richard Henry Lee’s motion for independence. “Congress picked a committee to write a declaration explaining why the colonies wanted independence,” and that is how all men are created equal is about to be brought up. Issues in the past with all people being treated equally, has been a big thing with women’s rights, in the past decades women in terms of employment has been gradually getting better, in 2014 women have almost all the same rights as men. Even though most women could work Ruth Pearson pointed out, “As individuals workers experienced both the liberating and the “empowering”
In the late 1800s and early 1900s of America, discrimination based on race, gender, and ethnicity in immigrants groups like Native American, Chinese, Irish, and African American is justified through personal and social beliefs, customs, and culture in the growing social structure for a bigger and better America. Native White Americans feared beliefs, customs, and cultures of the Native American, Chinese, Irish, and African American related to lack of understanding and communication problems. The lack of understanding and communication efforts add fire to an already discriminated social structure creating conflict rather than resolving issues. The culture of Irish was typically very poor, unskilled, and illiterate driven to America by
The way African Americans responded to discrimination has changed over the years. Specifically 1890s-1920s and the 1950s-1960s. The strategies and tactics of these two groups altered over time, and with that so did their goals. The reason why African Americans decided to speak up was due to the fact of abuse they'd been suffering for years, maily being segregated and treated like aliens. These people were physically and mentally abused .
One of the biggest issues in our country today is terrorism. Many Americans are surrounded by fear of potential attacks and many more have ideas and perceptions of Muslims rooted in their mind. Yet these thoughts play a major role in racism and islamophobia, thoughts that could contribute to more terrorism, and more harmful impacts on our Muslim brothers and sisters. Muslim communities have been under intense surveillance, mapping and identifying neighborhoods where many Muslims preside. Kamalakar Duvvuru, who teaches the New Testament in India, says, “In 2007 the Los Angeles Police Department [LAPD] launched an extensive mapping program to identify Muslim enclaves across the city.
Do people discriminate others to hurt them or they do not realize what their actions are doing? Racial discrimination is when a person is treated less favorably than another person in a similar situation because of their race, colour, descent, national or ethnic origin or immigrant status. One of the biggest discrimination in this country is racial discrimination towards Latinos and people of color. Racial discrimination has become a part of everyday life in America. We have to stop this hatred in our country because this country is based on freedom, peace, and home of immigrants.
The saying "all men are created equal"(Jefferson), in the United States' founding document, the Declaration of Independence, is a bold statement that embodies the American spirit. regardless, the truth is that not everyone is equal. We have varied appearances, speak different languages, and hail from various cultures and nations. In our different, it's crucial that everyone is treated fairly and with respect. During the 1960s and 1970s, the United States had a social and political awakening, The Civil rights movement and the second wave of feminism fought for equal opportunities in many aspects of life including the workplace.
Women have always had to fight for equal rights from the beginning of the Revolutionary War to present day. Although, women have the right to vote, it doesn’t guarantee women are treated equally. Women are still being paid less than men; “full-time working women earn just 78 cents for every dollar a man earns” ("Did You Know That Women Are Still Paid Less Than Men?"). In the 1960s, women were expected to get married and stay at home taking care of the children. At the time period, jobs for women were limited, “38 percent of American women who worked in 1960 were largely limited to jobs as teacher, nurse, or secretary” ("The 1960s-70s American Feminist Movement”).
As described in the text, institutional discrimination is caused from governmental policies and public institutions, which favor the more dominant groups but offer no support for the less dominant group. I believe that institutional discrimination is apparent in today 's society. The video provided, "Race the House we Live in," explains that individuals came from all over to enter into America (California Newsreel, 2010). This was referred to as a melting pot; however, policies favored white immigrants (California Newsreel, 2010). I think that institutionalized racism prevents our society from being the best it can be.
The exercise "What is Race?" ameliorated my way of thinking about race. I could change wrong belief that I have had about the classification of race in ancient time that is race is sorted by genetic base and outward feature such as skin color. I learned some interesting fact that ancient people divided people in terms of religion, status, class, and language. Being bigoted about races, I thought it was a right thing to divide people with physical differences because it is an archetypal idea to believe in the era I live. However, it is not true that outward characteristic can define race because there are mixed races that effective to certain physical traits.
As a first generation American, I have seen my family, specifically my parents, face certain societal preclusions, namely language based discrimination. Being immigrants, my parents do not have traditional eastern American accents, and therefore have been presumed uneducated by many people they have encountered. This would often lead to my brothers and me handling conversations with financial and educational institutions, because, as semi-articulate teenagers, we would receive more respect and have more authority than our middle-aged parents. However, one of the few places that my parents have never faced this kind of discrimination is a hospital. When I was ten I had to tell my father that he needed his gallbladder removed.
If a tree falls in an abandoned forest, does it make a sound? The answer has less to do with the trees that are falling, and more to do with the ones that don’t. When people choose not to listen to the deteriorating trees of the innocent, their voices merely become a blip in the background noise of society. Although the discrimination gap has decreased in the past two centuries, inequality in America has become an unchecked epidemic.
Are minorities continually being arrested for no reason, punished and tried because of a racial discrimination or do minorities just happen to commit more crimes? There are many theories on how and why race discrimination plays such a significant role in explaining the current arrest and imprisonment rates of minorities in the United States. The term race has traditionally referred to the biological differences of mankind. The only differences that distinguish us humans are by the color of our skin, hair texture and physical features determine what race we are. Many experts argue that race is just a social construct and people are labeled by the culturally dominant group in that society.
After a troublesome and torrid time, the black people or what so called slaves, were entering the 20th century with hope of not being discriminated after the slavery had been abolished in the late 19th century. The beginning of 20th century had overseen the stampede of worldwide immigrants to America as they seek for a better life. As for African-Americans, they were entering the phase where they found themselves almost identical with the past century despite the slavery being abolished. Though the abolishment of slavery was written in the 13th Amendment, some of the states still legalized it. They were still in the same position as they were before in some of the states in America.
For hundreds of years, longer than what should have been, many races excluding white men have been subjected to discrimination and segregation. Races such as African Americans and Native Americans have been oppressed by society and the United States government without remorse. The fight for equality for African Americans and Native Americans began when the first slave decided enough is enough. It started with the first slave to run away, the first person to speak out, the first person to stand their ground, and the first person to take risks that could end their life. That fight still continues today.
