To What Extend Do Cultural Differences Alter Understandings of Injustice and Approaches to Justice? (America).
Assignment 3 - Major Essay
Question 1
To what extend do cultural differences alter understandings of injustice and approaches to justice? (America).
Most people care deeply about justice for themselves and others. Broadly viewed, justice or more accurately, a keen sense of injustice and the urge to do something about it - is a basic part of life. Sense of injustice involves real human feelings. Hate, envy, resentment, anger, vengeance, fear and all the other passions people feel when they are treated unfairly. Terms like injustice and oppression are difficult to define, and that and definition will depend on how the harmful acts or inequities are understood. Oppression is not just in the eye, but also in the mind and motives of the beholder. Injustice might be fairly described as an undeserved or unfair distribution of advantage and hardship across individuals or groups. Different people and different societies might have different conceptions of what is just and what is not the idea of injustice seems to be one. United States has a large disparity between the Whites and Blacks. President Clinton had once described the polarization between blacks and whites as "tearing at the heart of America". The Black Americans have suffered from many forms of inequalities in terms of education, health, social status, political, justice and many more. All the inequalities faced by them are interconnected with one another. One of the reasons is because both whites and blacks have different cultural backgrounds, socioeconomic status and many more. Blacks Americans and other immigrants are considered as the minorities in United State. The unequal distribution of wealth is directly related to inequalities in education beginning at early education. The history of education of United State is filled with segregation, bias and inequalities for the minorities and the poor. In the south segregation was upheld in the Supreme Court in the Plessy and Ferguson case in 1986 which
Question 1
To what extend do cultural differences alter understandings of injustice and approaches to justice? (America).
Most people care deeply about justice for themselves and others. Broadly viewed, justice or more accurately, a keen sense of injustice and the urge to do something about it - is a basic part of life. Sense of injustice involves real human feelings. Hate, envy, resentment, anger, vengeance, fear and all the other passions people feel when they are treated unfairly. Terms like injustice and oppression are difficult to define, and that and definition will depend on how the harmful acts or inequities are understood. Oppression is not just in the eye, but also in the mind and motives of the beholder. Injustice might be fairly described as an undeserved or unfair distribution of advantage and hardship across individuals or groups. Different people and different societies might have different conceptions of what is just and what is not the idea of injustice seems to be one. United States has a large disparity between the Whites and Blacks. President Clinton had once described the polarization between blacks and whites as "tearing at the heart of America". The Black Americans have suffered from many forms of inequalities in terms of education, health, social status, political, justice and many more. All the inequalities faced by them are interconnected with one another. One of the reasons is because both whites and blacks have different cultural backgrounds, socioeconomic status and many more. Blacks Americans and other immigrants are considered as the minorities in United State. The unequal distribution of wealth is directly related to inequalities in education beginning at early education. The history of education of United State is filled with segregation, bias and inequalities for the minorities and the poor. In the south segregation was upheld in the Supreme Court in the Plessy and Ferguson case in 1986 which
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