Cultural Age Segregation

Segregation, while conjuring a negative stigma of social inequalities, may have evolved over time to be beneficial to certain family groups and structures. This research will look into details some of the advantages and disadvantages of modern day self-segregation trends. Taking into consideration the historical perspective as well as the diverse family structures, this research will also look into why the groups choose to self-segregate rather than blend in with the larger society.

The relationship we have with our elders is one of the most important relationships we can have. We can learn a great deal about life from elders who have already experienced some of what we’re going through. Rudolfo Anaya, the author of the essay “A Celebration of Grandfathers”, warns that part of humanity will be lessened if we don’t have close relationships with the elderly, and this phrase holds a lot of meaning. The amount that the elderly can teach us not just about life, but about challenges we will face, is incomparable. We learn morals, manners, and life lessons that will stick with us until we ourselves become elderly. Humanity will lessen if we lose our relationship with the elderly in the sense that we have lost the connection to

Historically, segregation has been based on race. More specifically, people were segregated based on their racial groups. This system generally applies to everyday activities including public transportation, public facilities, education, employment, or even amenities including toilets and drinking fountains. This act is regarded as a form of discrimination as it uses race or skin color as the basis for acceptance. However, although racial segregation is frowned upon, there are some cases in which this system of

With the advancement of thinking in the United States since the Jim Crow era, shouldn’t school segregation be a thing of the past? Well, this is an ongoing epidemic in the United States, and it has a dangerous effect on the youth. School segregation rates are at an all time high, and the main reason for this increase is residential segregation, or segregation of neighborhoods. Although school segregation can be a result of economic policy, housing policies have a greater influence on segregation. Many neighborhoods that are classified as low income, have a negative connotation attached with them. This causes a difference in funding of schools located in those districts, and those students end up paying the price.

The two articles “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” and “Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid” are about how race and education can effect one another. Both articles mention the different effects age can have on education. They both include numerous examples of different types of situations that students in America face in school. They both state that black students and white students do not experience school the same way. Though both articles have many things in common, they are vastly different.

The first article, “Police Make Life Hell for Youth of Color” discusses the stop and frisky policy in New York. Innocuous activities such as grocery shopping, visiting a friend or walking home from work or school are suspicious activities if performed by the African- American or Latino communities. The stop and frisk policy is a systematic weapon that policemen utilize against ethnic people-even children.

“We all have respect for our elders because of their hard work. We wouldn’t be in the U.S. or have what we do now if it wasn’t for them”, Ivan stated during the interview. I interviewed Ivan Miranda; a native of Acapulco, Mexico, about elderly roles in his family. Ivans grandparents are the first and the oldest generation of his family in America, therefore, a majority of the answers are of direction of his family’s values towards his grandparents and the ethics that are taught by them. In addition, I came to understand more about his family’s thoughts on the importance of elderlies, along with the loss of their heritage’s way of life towards the elders.

I asked the cashier if it was normal for the dine-in customers to usually be old, and she replied that it was. Teenagers rarely came to dine-in at this branch from 7:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. Usually they just went to the Starbucks and Tim Hortons next to the local high school. And the older people who usually came into the shop would relax and spend some time inside. This is a social construction because of the idea of teenagers being in school from 7:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. The idea and application of high school itself is a social construct. Society created the concept that the physically young should go to school (and work). Similarly, the idea that the physically elderly should not work is a social construct. There are also “certain behaviors that people typically associate with certain age groups as being ‘appropriate’ or ‘acceptable.” (Boundless 2016). It is completely acceptable for an elderly person to spend a few hours inside a coffee shop. However, a teenager relaxing inside a coffee shop, on a school day, would turn a few heads. Conversely, an elderly person attending college classes would definitely draw attention. These examples show how society dictates behaviors that are acceptable for

In America on average only 27% of African American Students’ class mates are Caucasian due to a divide between white and minority populations which has lasted for decades (Rivkin n.pag.). A system of racial division has evolved in the shadows and takes on many forms, most of which are fairly discrete. Racially separated communities have formed through a variety of mediums in a slow and persistent manner. However, the effects of a residential divide are direct, immediate, and numerous. A racist agenda within the development of American communities has further isolated the American people from each other by a means of systematic urban segregation.

Being separated from your family forcefully or optionally has to be one of the hardest objects in life. While children in the family choose to go their own way in search of a career for the better, others are being ejected from the country for the worse. In Alfred Lubrano’s “The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts” and in Michael Omi’s “Living in Color: Race and American Culture”, both passages from Signs of Life in the U.S.A, they both explain how heartbreaking it can be to get separated from a family. Families are being torn apart day by day and it affects the whole family emotionally and exasperatingly.

It must be reiterated, that if one wishes to understand residential segregation in modern times and its effect on one’s social and

I realized that I had made generalized assumption about the elderly age group. However, I came to know that elderly people are also well informed and are cooperative. I also felt that I was over cautious about my accent. After talking to the instructor, I understood that I would have been able to help Mrs. X to understand my accent by talking slowly and clearly rather than by asking my friend to ask questions of my part. I also learnt that some difficult questions could be asked in better way by substituting the tough term with other simpler terms.

The world we live today is very complicated. It possesses a great amount of different problems. The conflict between generations has been around for decades. Intergenerational cultural differences is more complex. The increasingly amount of immigrants families from Africa traveling overseas, faces a plenty of stressful challenges. The traditions and language differs between older immigrant (parents), and younger immigrant (children) generation, creating serious conflicts causing the two to clash, and Immigration difficulties.

Does diversity, culture, ethics, ethnicity, and multi-generations affect the selection of projects . Culture is basically how a certain group of people or type of people behave, interact, or perceive content. Culture has an impact because the way certain groups of people interact affects the way they react to certain products. An example of how culture affects the selection of projects is that a group of feminists is not going to endorse or support a project that is against women's rights. Ethnicity, this is race. Certain ethnic groups (much like cultural groups) will take offense to a project that insults or discredit their race. An example is that races, other than african americans, may take offense to "The Black Lives Matter" movement because

Social stratification is not a new phenomenon; its roots extends far back into antiquity with some contending that archaeological evidence reveals that social stratification existed in Cro-Magnon society 10,000 or more years ago (Tattersall 1998:178). Social stratification may be based on many attributes; according to Arredondo Biological differences can produce, directly or indirectly, social stratification by factors such as age, gender, race, or socioeconomic status. Age stratification and ageism are very closely related; one cannot exist without the other. Age stratification separates people into three primary groups according to their age; the young, the old and the rest. Ageism is the process of systematic