Roma Stereotypes

There are many different stereotypes in the world today. They can be used for different categories like age, gender and race. Stereotypes are formed by the media, passed down from many generations and also just the populations need to understand the social world around us. Racial stereotypes make up large portion of stereotypes in today's society. Racial stereotypes can be used for comedic effect and our found to be funny by a majority of people, but they can also be depicted as hate to an ethnic group if it goes too far. One example of a race effected by stereotypes are Asian people. They have many stereotypes that have developed over the years. An example of a stereotype Asian people experience is that they cannot drive very well. Some

In life, as in the film “the crucible”, people are affected by marginalization daily. For example, the case of the discrimination of members of society with mental disabilities. According to researchers, the poverty rate of people with disabilities is 47%. This is because people with disabilities are seen as weak, uncontrollable, unpredictable and dangerous. They are cast out from society and have little to no hope of returning. Although I can not say that I have experienced extreme marginalization as these people do, the same types of conflicts are also present in my life. While on my trip to Santiago, Chile over Spring break in 2018, I felt a glimpse of what it might be like for marginalized people. In Chile, 1 out of every 11 people is caucasian, which is 9% of the population. Because of this, being a Canadian in Chile is very rare. Whenever I would go anywhere, I felt the eyes of distracted, judgemental and confused people on me, wondering why I was there. This felt like there was an invisible box around myself and my group at all times, like a display at a museum. However, when we approached locals to talk to them they, they were very friendly and excited to hear what we had to say. This taught me what marginalization can feel like for people in society, but also that most people on the other side of the box are truly kind and don't realize the impact of their

|DH3W 34 |Sociology for Social Care Practice |(02) Understand the causes of discrimination and analyse its effect |

In attempting to reach a higher position in the social hierarchy, nepatleras can become complicit in each others oppression. In order to reach one’s goal, even someone who sees themselves as oppressed has the potential to oppress others that they see as “others.” This definition of other is constantly changing. For instance, two Latinas may think of themselves as “us” when they’re considering race, but become “otras” if one of them is queer. Unlike the old mestiza, which was based on a hierarchy determined by racial purity, Anzaldua suggests that mestiza consciousness can lead to the creation of a New Mestiza, which instead aims to dismantle this hierarchy. The impulse to hurt another individual comes from one’s shadow self, which draws boundaries around race, nationality, gender, and other categories. According to Anzaldua, these fences can offer protection to a group by isolating them from other possibly conflicting groups, but this isolation also takes away the opportunity to look into the lives of these other groups, and gain conocimiento, or knowledge, and empathize with their struggles. Anzaldua states that often, this perceived otherness that we build fences around can be deceptive, and by separating ourselves, we make ourselves weaker by having fewer connections within our ecosystem. In order to become nosotras, which in Anzaldua’s mind

The word “difference” still divides us to this day. The way we are different are due to our race, gender and class can have an impact on our life chances and can turn our lives upward or downwards. The concept of “difference” has been a topic and a goal for many societies to stop the divide for many decades already, since the 1980’s. When in the 1980’s there were numerous social protests and movements. However, to this day we are still tackling the problem. There are two articles,“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” and “The Ballot or the Bullet” that bring up their own views of the word “difference” and how they can indirectly or directly impact each other.

Landa, personal communication, March 1 2017). When Landa attended school it was divided by tracks, 3 total. One track was entirely Armenian students while the other was Hispanics. According to Landa, students tend to form groups and segregate themselves. For example, students who weren’t born in the US would sit together in one side of the school. Landa explained, “It was more difficult for some kids to fit in the school than others because of how they looked or where they came from.” (E. Landa, personal communication, March 1 2017) Nieto (2004) describes racism and other forms of discrimination as “perceptions that one ethnic group, class, gender, or language is superior to all others.” (Nieto 2004) In this case, both the Hispanics and the Armenians did not want to bond with each other because one group thought they were superior over the other. Having segregation, discrimination, and racism is not acceptable in schools because it fosters an unhealthy environment that can lead to fights or other situations. At first, when a group of people segregate one student it is individual discrimination like described in the text; however, when a group of individuals begin to segregate everyone in the school based on certain characteristics then it is institutional discrimination making

Prejudice is a specific type of abuse. It originates from the victimization of a gathering of individuals in view of the thought that some “acquired trademark,” for example, the color of the skin that makes them the second rate compared to their autocrat. The scheme of ‘race’ and ‘bigotry’ are in a current improvements. They emerged and turned out to be a piece of the widespread belief system of society in the setting of the African slave exchange at the beginning of private enterprise during the 1500s and 1600s.

In the texts and videos the authors and directors explore the idea of accepting others by providing evidence of discrimination and the negative impact of it when there are riots, beatings and segregation.

Marginalization of ‘outsiders’ in society by the ‘insiders’ has been in existence for ages. The immigrants have been the most marginalized group by the majority white Americans. Individuals who are marginalized are pushed beyond the edges of the society. This marginalization of people centers around preventing them from engaging in political, economic or political activities that help people in transitioning to modernity. The term marginalization has been recently replaced by the term exclusion. The term can be seen as a synonym to extreme poverty or even social exclusion. In most human groupings, there are "insiders" and "outsiders". From the universe of a youngsters' play area to the perplexing structures of a company, from the substances of a substantial family to those of religious foundations, a few people are "in" and a few people are "out". In the North America the black American’s were supposed to use different latrines from those of the whites. Further, individuals with more white skin are more "in" than individuals with darker skin.

The experiences of people living in ethnic enclaves have long attracted the attention of many scholars, journalists and writers because they want to understand how these communities are formed, and how the residents of these neighborhoods perceive their identity. This discussion included in this paper will be based on the analysis of literary and scholarly works. For instance, it is possible to refer to such authors as Nella Larsen and Yomme Chang who describe isolated ethnic communities. Furthermore, one can examine the novel Giovanni’s Room written by James Baldwin who examines the reasons why the representatives of the LGBT community can form their own enclaves. Overall, these people can be affected by different factors such as cultural segregation, poverty, linguistic barriers, homophobia, and so forth. Nevertheless, the critical issue is that they feel marginalized and isolated because some aspects of their identity are not accepted by the society. Moreover, these traits can be viewed as the signs of a certain deficiency.

Anzaldua describes how she experienced the feeling of being deviant towards society and not belonging to the community she lives in, “The queer are the mirror reflecting the heterosexual tribe’s fear: being different, being other than and therefore lesser, therefore sub-human, in-human, non-human” (Anzaldua, 1987). Acknowledging that someone is different from you in their thoughts, opinions, behavior, and appearance is not as easy as it may seem when these qualities matter to you. But acknowledging that being different is not better or worse—it is simply not the same—is what many people fail to do, often without even realizing how intolerant they are. The author herself, however, shows that she is in every way broadminded about her beliefs, her opinions, and even the language she speaks—the book is written equally in English and Spanish. The author naturally switches from one language to the other, showing not simply that she is bilingual, but that she is a human being above all other qualities, and it is the content, the meaning behind words that matters, not the form or language in which they are written.

As those within a community discriminate against people with different ideas or appearances, the society will slowly unravel and inevitably become divided. This is shown in the

Many circumstances oblige people to move from their native country to a foreign one. From this movement of migration have emerged many ethnic groups. An ethnic group is a restraint number of persons living in a larger society and sharing the same distinct cultural heritage. Some people tend to bury their habits and accommodate to the new way of life. However others hold on to their identity and try to identify their race and maintain it. This enriches societies and makes them multi-racial. Therefore, every ethnic group is essential to complete the mosaic. Although they are sometimes threatened, minorities must fight to preserve their principles. Why must they fight? Because racial identification has many positive impacts on the members.

The Roma history is vast and complex; the Romani people have been on this world for over a thousand of years. In those years, they received discrimination, persecution, and exclusion. Through most of their history, the Roma were typically classified in a social hierarchy as the “untouchables” or the “undesirables”. It has been said that the Romani people originated in India. As early as the fifteenth century, was the exodus of the Romani people of India. It is claimed that they moved out of India due to war and military invasion of India. I understand and sympathize the reason to move because the Romani people were at the bottom of the

For a very long time, the Gypsy communities have been a marginalized group by the dominant population on the aspects of social, political and economical (Acton, 1997). The dominant population always shows negative social attitudes towards them. The fact that they have government approved places to settle is making them even more segregated (Barany, 2002). A research conducted recently indicates that the Gypsy communities are, usually in significantly health problems than other citizens of countries where they live.