In the case of discrimination, the issue becomes one of acting on racist thoughts. It can also be unconscious, as when hiring managers disproportionately employ white males while unaware of their unconscious biases and protesting that they are not racist. If you grew up in the U. It is an entrenched part of our culture. So, the majority of both men and women make assumptions based on gender.
However, if you own a company and you hire mostly men as managers, you are actually acting on your sexist thoughts and you are now discriminating. If, like Tokyo Medical University , you lowered the test scores of women so that you ensure that 70 percent of your students were male, you are discriminating based on sexist ideas about gender. Prejudice can be thought of as a stereotype.
What matters is that people are being harmed because of a racist stereotype. It is an assumption based on no evidence that has been put into action. You can be both racist and discriminatory without being aware of it. Therefore, you must assume, at all times, that unconscious bias is influencing your decisions and you must create protocols that prevent you from indulging those biases and behaving in a discriminatory way.
We all make assumptions based on what books people read and how clean their house is and what school they went to, what team they root for, their clothes, their weight, their language. There are two questions you must ask yourself.
The first is: is it possible that I have preconceived notions about people that are based on race? Essentially, when one expresses a racist thought or idea, even if you are not actively discriminating, you are contributing to and strengthening an existing system of oppression that punishes other people based solely on race.
Saying the n-word may not be the same as giving black kids more jail time than white kids, but it is a racist act that feeds a malevolent and racist system. That says nothing, of course, of the damage done to the others who hear you make racist comments. Racism is traumatic. Redlining is the practice of routinely refusing mortgages for households and businesses located in predominately minority communities, while sedimentation of racial inequality describes the intergenerational impact of both practical and legalized racism that limits the abilities of black people to accumulate wealth.
Individuals with multiple ethnic backgrounds are becoming more common. Prior to the twentieth century, racial intermarriage referred to as miscegenation was extremely rare, and in many places, illegal. In the later part of the twentieth century and in the twenty-first century, attitudes have changed for the better. While the sexual subordination of slaves did result in children of mixed race, these children were usually considered black, and therefore, property.
There was no concept of multiple racial identities with the possible exception of the Creole. Creole society developed in the port city of New Orleans, where a mixed-race culture grew from French and African inhabitants. It is now common for the children of racially mixed parents to acknowledge and celebrate their various ethnic identities. While this is the trend, it is not yet evident in all aspects of our society.
For example, the U. Census only recently added additional categories for people to identify themselves, such as non-white Hispanic. A growing number of people chose multiple races to describe themselves on the Census, paving the way for the Census to provide yet more choices. To some, the Confederate flag is a symbol of pride in Southern history.
In January , two girls walked into Burleson High School in Texas carrying purses that displayed large images of Confederate flags. School administrators told the girls that they were in violation of the dress code, which prohibited apparel with inappropriate symbolism or clothing that discriminated based on race.
Why did the school ban the purses, and why did it stand behind that ban, even when being sued? Why did the girls, identified anonymously in court documents as A. The issue, of course, is not the purses: it is the Confederate flag that adorns them. In the end, the court sided with the district and noted that the Confederate flag carried symbolism significant enough to disrupt normal school activities. If the Confederate flag is synonymous with slavery, is there any place for its display in modern society?
Those who fight for their right to display the flag say such a display should be covered by the First Amendment: the right to free speech. But others say the flag is equivalent to hate speech, which is not covered by the First Amendment.
Do you think that displaying the Confederate flag should considered free speech or hate speech? Stereotypes are oversimplified ideas about groups of people.
Prejudice refers to thoughts and feelings, while discrimination refers to actions. Racism refers to the belief that one race is inherently superior or inferior to other races. How far should First Amendment rights extend? Learn more about institutional racism at www.
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