Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Inequality
Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Inequality Prejudice is an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought or reason. Prejudice may arise from many sources, including the views of family or peers, or it may come from strong identification with a particular group. From any source, prejudice is a problem that faces the American society today. As I enter the second semester of my college career I am able to better visualize the problem of racial and ethnic discrimination as well as prejudice. Living in such a diverse atmosphere as a college dormitory, helps make this topic more personal and easier for me to grasp. I live in an environment where people from different social categories have come together. Living with and around people of all races and ethnic backgrounds illustrates that people hold rigid opinions of members of a different social category. Prejudice is personally relevant to me because I am surrounded by people who often make social prejudgments about others before they even get to know them. I am examining the extent of prejudice through a survey of eleven questions designed to enable me to come to a general consensus about prejudice in today'
I found that Caucasian women were the least likely to have been discriminated against. All but one of the people surveyed said that they do not have close friends of different racial/ethnic backgrounds, and all but two claimed that they were not prejudice. A total of both six males and females were surveyed. the historical sequence of intergroup contacts in America created a particular pattern of social 'layers' among America's ethnic groups, an ethnic stratification system, in which the groups differ in power and prestige" (McLemore and Romo, 130). These ethnic groups are known as majority groups. Clearly, our most significant social problems occur when our stereotypical beliefs and prejudicial attitudes are translated into behavior. This hierarchy permits the powerful to keep their control and advantages. In researching racial and ethnic inequality and prejudice, I was unable to find closely related previous studies or articles pertaining to my topic. Another two questions were developed to determine if the person being surveyed would admit to being prejudice if they actually were. Finding the affects of racism and prejudice towards each race would be an interesting research idea based on the profuse amount of information available in the Shippensburg library. One other question asks if they have ever felt discriminated against by others which allows me to determine how rare or abundant discrimination really is. These problems include the escalating seclusion of minorities in central cities, increasing minority unemployment, and other forms of economic dislodgment.
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