In my view, Deepa Bharath is wrong because
In my view, Deepa Bharath is wrong because
“Give credit where credit is due.” Is the main idea that Meghan Daum’s, “Using Privilege as a weapon” comes down to. In her writing she attacks the misconception of using privilege as an accusation, implying that it brought inherited success discrediting the worker. Since in most people’s minds the fact that being born into a high class family in the United States automatically gives you a higher advantages than everyone else.…
Sidanius, J., Pratto, F., van Laar, C., & Levin, S. (n.d). Social Dominance Theory: Its agenda and method. Political Psychology, 25(6), 845-880. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9221.2004.00401.x…
Imagine our society finally being equal. No one is more attractive, athletic and smarter than you. You may think that this is great and you will never feel insecure about yourself ever again. However, what if every twenty seconds a transmitter would send a sharp, screeching noise through your ears in order to stop you from thinking, just so you could be at the same level of intelligence as everyone else and never smarter. Now imagine being a teenage girl living in a world that is divided by blood. If you are red-blooded you are considered to be in the lower class and have to pickpocket in order to survive. Whereas if you are silver-blooded, you live a life full of luxury and royalty. But what if one day you become a silver, the people you have always judged as shallow, cold and selfish.…
The first thing I noticed in this author’s writing is how she talked about people believing that people are in a certain class for a reason based on their intelligence, talent, effort, or skill. That it is something one earns and not given. But the author thinks this is just a way for the powerful to keep their dominance. I feel that this relates to Anne Moody’s experience in Coming of Age. She grows up wondering what makes white people different than black people and why they are so much better off when it is just that they are born into that social status.…
In post colonialism, Fanon mentioned that the mentality of colonized people has inferiority complex. The colonized people has inferiority feeling that they feel lower than the other. Fanon refers that the higher educated blacks, the inherent inferiority of themselves would be more intense. This inferiority complex is reflected in black whom do not want to speak their native language with their fellow citizen.…
People have a tendency to think of the in-group as superior. To favor an in-group is called in-group favoritism. On the contrary, people tend to think that the out-group is less worthy or common and may even feel intimidated by the members of the out-group. The tendency to feel threatened by or hostile against the out-group is called…
Prejudice can diminish any opportunities that may be available to those being judged. Take for example the mentally disabled character Lennie, from Of Mice And Men. Lennie is never doing anything but what his best friend George tells him to do. Because of this, the other ranch hands in the book don’t assume Lennie can do much more…
“Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.”…
It is inexcusable to consider others as less than who they are, simply due to the fact they are members of a separate race. We as humans must continue to comprehend we are infinitely more advantageous when we are accepting of all members of society, and when we persist in synergizing as one human race.…
Children raised with high self esteem will already feel normal whether they are discriminated against or not. Hurston is a great example that being raised with high self esteem helps you not to separate yourself from being normal. Hurston says, “Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can anyone deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me” Lorde 121. This quote shows how Hurston’s childhood had a very big effect on her self esteem. Hurston grew up in an african american neighborhood. This helped her gain a great deal of self esteem because she was raised where it was okay to be colored. It is a beautiful thing when she says she remembers the very first day she became colored. In the sense as if she never knew her skin was dark until she moved. I believe this gave her a great deal of confidence. Hurston was raised with high self esteem so she never had the opportunity to feel like the other. If future generations don’t have the opportunity to feel like the other, they won’t long to fit into the “mythical norm”. They will know that they’re already normal. They don’t have to separate their true selves from success. hooks believes that to be successful you have…
The renowned Martin Luther King Jr know for being a social activist on the matter of equality of all races and ethnicities exclaims that, “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people”. Through Martin Luther King Jr, one can presume that notion of oppression causes a society without tolerance and ethical diversity. Power is a quality desired by every human being, some people crave the notion of complete and utter dominance over any human being it is a sense of control that gives them a certainty of confront that no other desire can live up to it, the desire of power goes as far as committing atrocities such as murder, genocides and wars to gain absolute control over one…
Similarly racism and classism were, and still are, justified with these ideas. It argues that peoples who were poor, marginalized or otherwise subjugated either legally or socially, were in fact lesser than those who were wealthy, and otherwise privileged. It argues that their privilege arose from them being better suited to fitting in and thriving within the society, and that those at the bottom of society are there because they are not suited to be at the top. This was a way of using science to justify prejudices that were already in place so as to appease the consciousness of those societies. These ideas enforced, segregation and marginalization of “lesser” members of society.…
individual who is thought of as the superior race is usually not aware of the…
“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.” – Booker T. Washington. What is the effect of a drastic difference in levels of formal education, social class and race? The aftermath can consist of a war between two nations, or racism to an extent where humanity is no longer taken into consideration. Inevitably there is one superior victor, leaving the remains of the opposing party nothing more than mere followers whom lack self-respect. In Ernest J. Gaines’ novel “A Lesson Before Dying“, the scarcity of human dignity is predominant throughout. It is important to realize the results due to superiority, racism and an absence in self-respect under those circumstances of no human dignity.…
Jane Elliot covered the topic and talked it to them but they couldn’t comprehend, so she had them experience discrimination first-hand. She told her class that all blue-eyed people are better and brown eyed aren’t, the blue-eyed kids felt superior throughout the whole day as the brown-eyed kids felt inferior. Superior is higher in rank or quality, as inferior is the opposite; lower in rank or quality, throughout the day the brown-eyed kids were treated atrociously showing aggressive behavior towards the blue-eyed kids. Causes of aggressive behavior are from an obstacle that stands in the way of doing something, however frustration makes you angry when felt the act what intentional. A prejudice; an unfavorable attitude toward a group of people this situation it was brown-eyed kids. Stereotype is a belief or expectation about a group of people; the blue-eyed students were told at the beginning of the day brown-eyed are lazy and dumb so they drew quick generalizations about them all as a…