Junyi's Discrimination In High School

Even more shocking was the fact that she accepted these feelings as perfectly normal. Also distinct about her schooling at Manzanar was the fact that she felt very prepared to enter American schools. This showed how eager Jeannie was to be a part of mainstream American cultures, even though she may not have been welcomed. Jeannie’s experience in American schools was drastically different from her experience at Manzanar. She had problems making friends because the parents of the other children would not allow their children to befriend a Japanese girl. For Jeannie, the first thing an American girl said to her, “Gee, I didn’t know you spoke English” defined people’s attitudes toward her and other Japanese people at that time in history. However, most of the other children slowly accepted her, regardless of her race. On the opposite end of the spectrum, most of the parents and some of the teachers were very unreceptive to Jeannie for the simple fact that she was Japanese. This fact very much disappointed her, and she directly stated that when she said “From that point on, part of me yearned to be invisible. In a way, nothing would have been nicer for no one to see me.” However, she was not excluded from all activities, as she was an active participant in athletics, scholarship, yearbook, newspaper, and student government. Her

Throughout the years many people have experienced where he or she does not fit in a certain type of group or society because they are not accepted through the rest of society. In the short stories, “How to Tame a wild Tongue by Gloria Anzaldua and “How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization” by Franklin Foer both authors talk about how society didn’t accept them because they were different from the “social norms” through the relationship of the individual and the community. With so many expectations from society the individual feels pressured from the rest of the group because they are different than others. With the pressure from others in the group, the individual becomes different by not acting like themselves just so they can f but the individual sometimes tends to forget what they believe in or even causing equality between each other.

Elliott gave an excellent example of prejudice and discrimination to her 3rd grade pupils. She split her class in two groups according to their eye color. She set up the rules since the beginning, where the blue eyes group was superior to the brown eyes group and uses a color collar to make the inferior team more visible. It is heartbreaking to see little kids discriminating against each other within that little time and being mean to their friends. Also we see that the kids who were appraised performed better on their tests and work in general. Elliott repeated the exercise to the employees of the Iowa prison system. The reaction to the employees was similar to the 3rd grade kids. They started to prejudice and discriminate

At both the University of Florida and Florida Atlantic Sharon stayed within a sorority. In her first year she shared her room with a very-small town girl who lacked much experience in different communities and with different kinds of people. Sharon values the experience of living on campus, as this experience is a great reminder of how greatly Sharon prefers independence to relying on others. Sharon had a job since she was 15 and a Chevy Nova since she was 17, with these she relied on herself to provide her with goods to sustain herself with. At school she was without a car, income, and had to rely on others and the school to provide her basic necessities.

An issue that has been present in the United States for decades would be racial profiling and discrimination. Although the Constitution states that everybody is equal, Black Americans are still treated as less and are more susceptible to harm in society and the judiciary system. However, the percentage of African American killings in the United States have decreased since the 1960s. The 1960s was a decade where in every 4 killings made by police, one of the victims would be an African American teen. As of 2016, the ratio has become 1 in 10 which shows some change, although statistics show there has been a change, there are still incidents with the police and the African American community where events ended with severe injuries.

“You should go back to India!” shouted my overtly racist next-door neighbor from his bathroom window at my mother who was leisurely watering her backyard garden. “We don’t want your kind here!” he yelled as he swiftly walked back inside his home while my mother stared at him in absolute shock with a running hose dangling from her hand. Unfortunately, incidents like this one are neither rare nor unexpected considering I’m biracial and live in a predominantly white neighborhood. Ever since my multiracial family relocated to Bayside, we have been the victims of blatant racial discrimination which is so severe my mother ended up calling the police on my neighbor on one occasion because he trespassed upon our property and proceeded to assault my father for countering a racial slur of his.

Discrimination is a term that is closely associated with many horrible things such as violence, wars, and (worst of all) politics. Although it can be argued that outright discrimination is slowly being eliminated, a new term has emerged that describes the newer, less direct, form of social inequality that is replacing the usual discrimination. Microaggressions are outlets of showing underlying prejudice without specifically attacking something. By definition, microaggressions are too small to be addressed from a disciplinary point of view, but, by looking at specific examples of microaggressions in higher education, one concludes that microaggressions must be attacked by raising awareness through discussion in academia.

Five million two hundred thousand Native Americans are suffering from poverty, alcoholism, unemployment and high rates of suicide (Peralta, "Native Americans Left Behind”). In the unfortunate events of discrimination and prejudice against First Nations, they are at huge disadvantages and do not have many rights (McCue, "Racism against Aboriginal People”). The famous writer, Sherman Alexie, also known as Junior, is able to share and beautifully capture his experiences through his book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Throughout his novel, he shares his struggles growing up being Native American, who is a hydrocephalic, has a stutter, a lisp and sacrifices himself by attending an all white school (Alexie 1-4). Junior’s decision

Thirty-seven percent of the United States population is minorities, and the white majority will be gone by 2043 according to NBC News. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, shows how destructive racism/prejudice can be to a society. A black man named Tom Robinson is accused of rapeing a white girl named Mayella during a period of time where there was a lot of prejudice towards blacks. Tom is being defended by anti-racism lawyer Atticus Finch. The case is looking like it’s impossible for Tom to lose, but then the racism in the town of Maycomb says otherwise.

Why does discrimination still exist in today’s society? There have been many documentaries and novels published describing the traumatic lives of hundreds of people dealing with widespread discrimination. Unfortunately, inequity is evident in everyday situations, whether it be social, gender or racial discrimination. Throughout Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee uses characterization to illuminate the main theme of discrimination. Atticus and Scout Finch, and Boo Radley are illustrated to racial, gender and social discrimination respectively.

The film, “A Class Divided”, was a film about how discrimination can affect the way we think and act towards people who are not the same as us. The film centers around Jane Elliot and her former 3rd grade class who are all grown up. The film showed the blue-eyed/brown-eyed experiment that Elliot had created to teach her class about discrimination and the lasting, life-long affects the experiment had on former 3rd grade class. The film also presents the blue-eyed/brown-eyed experiment on a group of adults who work in a prison with minorities and how the experiment affected them.

I was actually kind of shocked after reading the article. No teacher should actually discriminate between a white student and a black student. Discrimination often leads to a failing performance of the student. I agree with Papageorge when he said, “These low expectations could affect the performance of students, particularly disadvantaged ones who lack access to role models who could counteract a teacher’s low expectation.” This is actually a true fact, a teacher’s support and inspiration can often lead an average student reach the peak of success.

Man is a product of the culture in which he is born and brought up. For the same reason, no one can negate the influence of the society in forming one’s personality. I am well aware of the fact that my views, thoughts, and attitude have been shaped by the society I live in; hence, any attempt to sketch my personal experiences would be incomplete without referring to the part played by my surroundings. Throughout my life, I have paid utmost importance to initiating and maintaining interpersonal relationships with others. I had to face varied situations out there, both joyous and depressing. However, each instance was a great lesson for me to learn several things about my practical life – I wouldn’t be exaggerating when I say that I have learned more outside the four walls of my classroom than within them. My autobiography is closely associated with my social connections including my experiences with my family, educational institution, and the larger society I reside within.

Transitions are never an easy thing to conquer. It is often hard and stressful to cope with changes to one’s surrounding, but in the cases in which one manages to conquer this obstacle, elevation of knowledge and experience are great results gained from this achievement. I originally came from Africa and recently moved to the United States to join my mother and my step father. This great change in the things I had become accustomed to in my daily life was not easy, furthermore taking into account the fact that I had never experienced a transition so little as shifting from one residence to another.

Our education system is perhaps one of the most complex institutions in the United States. Students are taught to be their most authentic selves but yet are told to think a certain way. In reality, students really don’t have the freedom to be their genuine identity. Our society tells us that a typical student speaks the language, excels in all areas of study, and loves to read. Children who do not fit this mold are often at a disadvantage and do not attain the same acceptance. In the essay, “Achievement of Desire” Richard Rodriguez was a first generation immigrant from Mexico. His parents spoke little English, and had no education. Automatically, his family is an outcast. Throughout Rodriguez’s schooling career he learned to fit the perfect mold of the “typical” American student. He finds himself to be in an internal struggle between social versus family isolation, authenticity and finding his place in the American society.