Discrimination In Gloria Naylor's The Meanings Of A Word
It is no mystery that discrimination and stereotyping are two of the most prominent social issues in society today. Along with discrimination there come many words used negatively in which others are targeted. In Gloria Naylor’s essay, The Meanings of a Word, she discusses the idea in which words are essentially meaningless and that it is the person who uses them that brings meaning to the words they use. As everyone knows, there are many people that use words with bad intentions and they use their words to defame and discriminate against others. Everyone is subject to this type of discrimination. Discrimination and stereotyping of Central Americans is prevalent in the American Southwest as a result of high flow of immigration. Discriminating
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Why is that? The American Southwest is often bombarded with illegal immigrants that come through the Mexican borders with the United States to get into this country. So, the people from the United States automatically stereotype and discriminate against these immigrants and place them all into one broad category. In reality, the majority of immigrants are from Central America. Central Americans are coming to this country because of violence in their home countries, with a majority coming from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. In the documentary, Al Jazeera America Presents: ‘Borderland’, six United States citizens were chosen by a frontier medical examiner to retrace the footsteps of three dead migrants, “three of the nearly 6,000 illegal immigrants who perished in the desert in the last 15 years while crossing from Mexico.” This was in 2014 when the drug violence, youth violence, and sexual violence did not occur at such a high rate. Most Central Americans who do not wish to come to the United States reside in their home countries, subjected to various violent assaults and near death experiences. According to the article, Violence surges in Central America, threatening new refugee flood, written by Guy Taylor and Stephen
Why is that? The American Southwest is often bombarded with illegal immigrants that come through the Mexican borders with the United States to get into this country. So, the people from the United States automatically stereotype and discriminate against these immigrants and place them all into one broad category. In reality, the majority of immigrants are from Central America. Central Americans are coming to this country because of violence in their home countries, with a majority coming from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. In the documentary, Al Jazeera America Presents: ‘Borderland’, six United States citizens were chosen by a frontier medical examiner to retrace the footsteps of three dead migrants, “three of the nearly 6,000 illegal immigrants who perished in the desert in the last 15 years while crossing from Mexico.” This was in 2014 when the drug violence, youth violence, and sexual violence did not occur at such a high rate. Most Central Americans who do not wish to come to the United States reside in their home countries, subjected to various violent assaults and near death experiences. According to the article, Violence surges in Central America, threatening new refugee flood, written by Guy Taylor and Stephen