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Xenophobia In America

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A series of attacks led by xenophobic mobs in May 2008 left 62 people dead, and oddly 21 of the people were South African citizens according to the United Nations University Press. Masrat Eliso, an Ethiopian, was a shop owner until his store was looted just because of his cultural background. He claimed, “I don’t even have clothes...I lost all my things.” Xenophobia is a ongoing problem in South Africa that needs to be attacked socially instead of with legislation. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most successful leaders to attack a similar problem in the sense that there was a large social ideology creating the problem.
I am Bryce Carusone representing the EFF in the National Assembly. It is necessary to keep current legislation to solve …show more content…

Some people might argue that immigrants are taking jobs from South Africans, but immigrants can’t reside within the country if their profession isn’t needed within the country. Also, “Currently, the country has 35,000 open positions in fifty-three different job categories. To obtain a permit under this program a person must have an educational qualification in a specific identified category and a minimum of five years practical experience.” according to the library of congress (U.S.). This prevents excessive immigration for people looking into a similar job field. The people create the scapegoat of immigrants to explain the approximate 25% unemployment rate that is helping to drown the country in …show more content…

It discourages drunk driving, with a message saying that if you make a plan to get home safely before you drink, then all your pets and friends will be happy to see you home. The popularity that Budweiser got from the commercial
My Bill is the right way to approach this social issue because there is only so much that politics can do to influence the youth. Connecting to them by using their prefered means is the least forceful way of connecting with them. The Social Development Committee will attempt to post the least biased articles, and tend to post things that will keep the conversation going, or get it started. I feel like people might not understand that my plan will not force concepts or ways of thinking upon the youth, but instead it will provoke their own thinking.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an advocate of peaceful protests and fighting for what you believe in, with my Bill, South Africans with access to internet will have the ability to constantly protest without creating violence. “Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral...But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.”-Brainy Quote. Martin Luther King Jr would measure the Bill's success by the amount of people active in rallies, protests, and other forms of activity within a community founded on a political

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The United States is known as the nation of immigrants. It is a place where different cultures meet and diverge. However, despite being known as the nation of immigrants, the Americans have been also known for their sentiments against the immigrants. Anti-immigrant sentiment has long been a part of the culture in the United States.

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With the recent rapid growth of immigration in the United States of America it is common for prejudice towards a certain group of people to grow. This is particularly true when it comes to Mexican immigrants. With the recent political debates in full swing taking stabs at foreign policy, racial profiling and bias have increased significantly towards Mexican immigrants and their descendants causing prejudice towards them in their neighborhoods, workplaces, and schools. Growing up in a foreign country where I was the minority changed my point of view of how people treat immigrants. I lived in Los Cabos, Mexico for almost five years and was the odd one out.

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Statistics show that over 11.5 million immigrants migrate to The United States in search of a better life for themselves and their children. Yet, throughout the course of the years, a negative stigma has been associated with the arrival of immigrants in The United States. They have been discriminated against and have been labeled with abasing words. However, the majority of people fail to realize that the individuals who risked their lives coming here, the ones who left their family and friends behind are the most hard-working and persistent people I have come to know because these individuals are my parents. My parents left El Salvador and immigrated to a new country in hopes of a better academic future for me.

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The author takes the topic of Xenophobia to be a human condition that arises out of a lack of proper meaning interaction among people. For example in Oxford University people from other African countries, except South Africa were referred as to Mukwerekwere or Likwerekwere, Afrikans etc. To show that even people from other places were experiencing Xenophobia Refentse mother, while at Tiragalong, she believed that all Johannesburg women are evil and men destroyers even before she meet Lerato Refentse’s girlfriend (Mpe, 2001:29-63), which is leading to the element of fiction known as Dystopia were a person dislike a certain place because she/he imagined it as a bad place (Abrams and Harpham (2012:416-417). Xenophobia also falls under the biggest issue that the world especially South Africa suffers from, immigrants are facing discrimination and violence in the world, though much of that risk stopped from the institutionalised racism of the time due to apartheid. These immigrant were also accused of causing high crime rate in

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