Comparison Of Fraas And Mir's Arguments
Comparison of Fraas’s and Mir’s arguments
The issue of prejudice and discrimination in the modern globalized world is becoming more and more common, as society becomes more diverse. The mix of cultures, religions, genders, interests and beliefs creates a vast variety of different difficulties, problems, and issues within small communities as well as in society as a whole. Considering the above, it is important to understand how this diversity of different features of different people is chaotically transformed into something called the “norm” or “normal”, when what it really is describing is “wrong” and “not normal”. This essay will examine why it is treated so and what we can actually do about it. The arguments of both authors I am reviewing in this essay have a common repeating idea. “People, who are considered as different, usually are treated with prejudice, are being discriminated and unappreciated” (Fraas 683) (Mir 705). Both authors have analyzed the situation which takes place on college campuses of the United States of America. This is a perfect …show more content…
When the society sets its rules and so called informal policy, especially in college, it usually does not apply double consciousness to marginalized minority. This usually leads to the effort of people, who are deemed different to try to comply with the set rules of the dominating majority and hide their actual “undesirable” identity. That is why, for example according to Fraas, “only 11% of trans-women tried to apply to colleges for females and were ready to pass all bureaucratic difficulties” (Fraas 684). The same stigmatizing is observed among Muslim women on campus. For example, as Shabana Mir has emphasized, “in United States Muslim identity is usually a source of stigma, in the meantime, behaving like a “normal” (in an informal way) American youth can be a source of stigma in Muslim communities”(Mir
The issue of prejudice and discrimination in the modern globalized world is becoming more and more common, as society becomes more diverse. The mix of cultures, religions, genders, interests and beliefs creates a vast variety of different difficulties, problems, and issues within small communities as well as in society as a whole. Considering the above, it is important to understand how this diversity of different features of different people is chaotically transformed into something called the “norm” or “normal”, when what it really is describing is “wrong” and “not normal”. This essay will examine why it is treated so and what we can actually do about it. The arguments of both authors I am reviewing in this essay have a common repeating idea. “People, who are considered as different, usually are treated with prejudice, are being discriminated and unappreciated” (Fraas 683) (Mir 705). Both authors have analyzed the situation which takes place on college campuses of the United States of America. This is a perfect …show more content…
When the society sets its rules and so called informal policy, especially in college, it usually does not apply double consciousness to marginalized minority. This usually leads to the effort of people, who are deemed different to try to comply with the set rules of the dominating majority and hide their actual “undesirable” identity. That is why, for example according to Fraas, “only 11% of trans-women tried to apply to colleges for females and were ready to pass all bureaucratic difficulties” (Fraas 684). The same stigmatizing is observed among Muslim women on campus. For example, as Shabana Mir has emphasized, “in United States Muslim identity is usually a source of stigma, in the meantime, behaving like a “normal” (in an informal way) American youth can be a source of stigma in Muslim communities”(Mir