Eth 125 Final Paper

Final Project TOBIAS A. TERRELL ETH /125 27 JUNE 2013 SHANDA JONES-BUREL Final Project This class has been challenging in many ways and has encouraged me to look at ethics and cultural diversity in many different ways. Institutional discrimination, racial discrimination, age discrimination, and gender discrimination is some of the information about diversity in the United States that has helped me better understand and relate to others in ways that I may not have before taking this course. Seeing white people in my community is the norm for me. I live in a fairly large city that has a wide variety of races, culture, and heritage, but Whites make up 90% of the population here, while the rest of the population is a mixer of Asian American, African American, Native Americans, Portuguese and Hispanics. I have been in contact with people that think race, heritage, and culture are factors that do not affect communities, but racism, discrimination, and stereotyping of individuals is very prevalent throughout most communities, even mine. Growing up in my somewhat sheltered home community and then living in other areas of the United States I have learned over time that racism, discrimination, and stereotyping is practiced by all races. Most people may not even realize they are performing these behaviors when they are occurring. This can be seen in schools across America daily. When I was in high school there were different groups of people that only hung out with each other. Depending on how a person dressed, what race the person was, or what his or her grades were they were labeled and put into a specific group. No one dared try mingling with a group he or she did not belong to with fear of being humiliated. To prevent discrimination all clubs in school were open for all students to join. However, there was only 1.5% Black students in the entire

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