Explain Classism, Prejudice, Discrimination, Acculturation

1)Define and explain classism, prejudice, discrimination, acculturation, and stigma. Provide an example for each.
Classism, prejudice, discrimination, acculturation and stigma are all taboo words in today’s society. There are a few who would argue that they do not apply to the world’s modern society. Yet they are present and felt by the minorities of the world. Each word listed above represents a denial of basic rights. Acculturation represents the denial of an individual to their culture while discrimination and classism deny social, economic and educational opportunities and rob a person of their sense of worthy. Prejudice and stigma steal a person’s individuality and place them in a generalized group. Classism, prejudice, discrimination,
This process involves adjusting to a non-normative culture where two or more cultures come into contact with each other (Marsglia 2014). In essence, the person has moved to a new place and chooses to conform to the new culture by completely letting go of their original culture. This choice is often influenced by the individual feeling pressure to change themselves and their beliefs instead of fighting the dominate culture. Discrimination has a vast influence on whether or not the individual feels pressure to abandon their unique heritage and embrace another culture. Culture has many facets and directly or indirectly effects everyday life; values, gender roles, meaning that by abandoning a culture an individual is abandoning a way of life, thinking and even a part of themselves. According to Marsiglia (2014), there are two types of acculturation: psychological and behavioral. Behavioral acculturation includes a person’s language and social skills while psychological acculturation involves adopting the ideologies of the dominate culture. For example, a school age girl and her family move from Peru to the United States. The family speaks little English and prefers to speak Spanish at home. The little girl gets sent to school where she feels like an outsider and has trouble keeping up in her
The majority of the things listed above have to do with income, which decides where the individual lives ,what they own and, some people, use it as a bench mark for people’s worth. This judgment of an individual based on their income and rank in the societal hierarchy is called classism. Classism is based on the belief that the working class lack education and are is unintelligent and, therefore need guidance .According to Smith, Foley and Chaney (2008) Classism provides justification for the oppression of the poor and working poor by implying that those who do not have jobs or have lower-paying jobs lack education, intelligence and basic refinement. When, in reality, there are barriers holding those individuals back from better paying jobs, including family background, income, status and the neighborhood in which you live. It is evident that from a young age certain people (the rich) have a better chance at achieving more and landing a high-paying job. Mantsios (2014) looks at how three different life styles affect three different individuals; The first young man was raised by a wealthy family and continued to excel and reach his dreams while his two counterparts were not that lucky. Both were not able to achieve their dreams due to financial resources and had to take the lower-paying jobs