what is the outcome for minority members of a society that engage in illegal behavior even if those behavior feel good, are natural and cultural?
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_Minority_D1_CONT.docxTHE PREJUDICE OF MINORITY GROUPS 8
Prejudice of Minority Groups
[Please keep in mind you are asked to discuss “illegal behavior”. The ideas related to healthcare, entertainment, dressing., and various stereotypes are not considered illegal behavior. Please revisit your paper and focus on the topic.]
Minority groups encounter prejudices whenever they engage in illegal behaviors even if their conduct enhances their well-being and are both natural and cultural. Stereotypes are driven by people’s intolerance to the things that they are unfamiliar with. Consequently, people treat each other based on their skin color, ethnicity, and nationality. Accordingly, individual’s behaviors are assessed from their physical appearances instead of their impact on the society. This is the reason why law enforcement officers react differently to crime scenes involving suspects from majority and minority groups. The attitudes and perceptions that the majority groups in the society have towards the minority compromises how they view their activities, both legal and illegal. [What is your thesis statement? In this essay, I will discuss….]
One of the ways through which minority groups are denigrated in the societies, such as the American is through racial profiling. This is common in the U.S. where minority groups, particularly the African American and Hispanic suspects are treated differently from the whites. The law enforcement officers use more force on the minority group suspects than the whites [Any data or number to support the statement?]. The outlook is supported by the recent incidents where police officers shot unarmed black Americans, hence prompting demonstrations across the nation. However, these incidents are driven by the perception of majority groups on minority ones. Over the years, the people of color have been viewed as being violent and criminals [Any study or research to support your idea?]. These viewpoints have been driven by the involvement of a few of them in criminal activities. Consequently, the members of the majority groups develop beliefs that all persons who belong to minority groups are criminals. For this reason, they minimize their engagements with them and monitor their movements more than the other groups. For instance, the traffic officers tend to stop and search the vehicles being driven by African Americans and Hispanics than whites. [It will be more convincing if you can find data or numbers to support your ideas.]
Members of the majority groups tend to engage [and?] react negatively to the cultural activities of the minority groups even if they enhance their [are you referring “their” to majority groups?] welfare. A good example is the stereotype labeled against the Asian American students as being studious despite their excellent academic performances [I am not sure how being studious is related to excellent academic performance]. The outlook [Is outlook another stereotype besides being studious?] has led to white students believing that their classmates with Asian backgrounds are cold despite their competency in the classroom. The outlook leads to them believing that all Asians are not social, thus unable to interact with them. Consequently, the Asian Americans struggle to have white friends as the latter refuse to engage with them at personal levels. The position [What position?] can be supported by the fact that the Asians who move to the U.S. prefer to live in neighborhoods that have Asians to have persons to interact with. Moving into white neighborhoods can have devastating effects on their welfare, as they would be forced to live in solitude [Are you talking about cultural assimilation?]. They encounter the same experience at their workplaces where their colleagues from the majority groups do not engage them besides on work related issues. They believe that all Asians are geeks, thus only relevant on issues concerning their jobs.
Also, white students and professors believe that the Hispanic and African American learners are average, hence need to work harder for their performances to match those of whites (Bender & New York University, 2003). The outlook can be traced back to the slavery era when whites believed to be the superior race. At the same time, the belief that the Latinos and people of color are not academically competent is driven by the high school dropout rate of students from these communities. Nonetheless, the whites fail to understand that most students are unable to continue with their studies because of financial reasons [Are the ideas from the source Bender and New York University ? Otherwise, you need to find more sources to support your ideas. ]. There is no evidence showing that a certain race is more intelligent than the others. The reason why the number of white students who graduate with college degrees is higher than that of minority groups is because of economic reasons, and not intellectual abilities. The belief that the Hispanics and African Americans are less intelligent that whites leads to them being denigrated in several ways. One of the ways through which the minority students are denigrated is through being denied admission to top institutions of higher learning in the nation. For instance, the Latino and African American learners tend to struggle to get the opportunity to join the colleges in the Ivy League [Any data or numbers to support your statement?]. The other way these learners are denigrated is through being denied academic grants and loans. The boards and organizations that award the funds are usually reluctant to award these scholars the capital they need to further their studies. In the instances where they award students from minority groups with grants, they tend to scrutinize their academic performances thoroughly. These aspects imply that the students from minority groups are denied academic opportunities because of the stereotypic belief that they are not as intelligent as the whites. [I really encourage you to find sources to support your ideas and statements.]
Over the recent years, the U.S. has experienced several incidents of mass shootings orchestrated by persons from different racial and ethnic groups. However, the public’s reactions to these incidents have been different. The differences have been facilitated by the persons who conduct the crime. If the shooter is white, the American society blames the individual. Here, the suspect is treated as an isolated case of mental disorder. At the same time, the public does not call upon the law enforcement officers, particularly the Homeland Security Department to establish measures to protect the nation from attacks. However, the reaction is different when the shooting is done by persons from minority groups. A good example is the Orlando night club shooting that took place on 12 June 2016, which was conducted by a son of Afghanistan immigrants, Omar Mateen, a condition that led to the event being treated as a terrorist attack. For this reason, they were numerous calls to the security agencies to develop initiatives to deal with domestic terrorism. However, such calls were not seen after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida, which occurred on 14 February 2018 and left seventeen persons dead and fourteen hospitalized. In this case, the incident was perpetrated by a white, Nikolas Cruz, hence viewed as a normal crime. Therefore, whites were not labeled as being violent and terrorists as was the case during the Orlando incident where the immigrants from the Middle East were treated as terrorists. The outlook has compromised the relations between the migrants from the Arab nations and other Americans (Hartlep, 2015). The former are associated with terrorism because of the conduct of a few persons. For this reason, they struggle to move freely across the nation as the law enforcement officers and the public are always monitoring their movements. For instance, they are searched more than the other persons whenever they enter social joints, such as shopping malls and hotels [How do you know they are searched more? You need number to back up your statement.].
In the healthcare sector, the situation is not any different. Although many bodies have tirelessly improved on healthcare delivery, differences in geography, patient and provider communication difficulties, cultural barriers, low income, lack of access to provider and provider stereotyping have continuously increased healthcare disparities. These differences can be overcome by a complete change in the structure of power where the minorities are involved in the State’s decision making. It means that any effort to end health inequities will require changing the entire distribution of power within the society to the advantage of the disadvantaged or the minority groups. Efforts to have an equal distribution of health care service in all parts encounter many barriers. Racial and ethnic minorities receive more inferior quality health care than the non-minorities. All people regardless of their ethnic origin, gender, language, race, cultural background, disability, religion or age deserve high-quality healthcare [Is the whole paragraph your own idea? If not, you need to provide citation].
The cultural values of minority groups also lead to the members of the majority groups stereotyping them. For example, the modes of dressing differ across the different religions. In the U.S., people have a choice to wear anything they believe to be decent because of their Christianity values [I am not sure if that is the Christianity value.]. The outlook is different in Islam which has a different dress code. For instance, women are required to cover most parts of their bodies, thus wear hijabs and niqabs. In the U.S., the whites stereotype these women as being primitive because they have refused to embrace modernity. Consequently, they believe that all Muslims are not civilized because of their religious practices. On the other hand, Americans who live in Muslim societies, but do not adhere to the dressing mode of the surrounding environments are viewed to be immoral and unbelievers. Consequently, members of such societies perceive all Americans to lack moral values. [Try to avoid overgeneralization by using the words, such as “all” everyone“, and etic]
The behavior of persons from minority groups will in entertainment joints affects how the majority groups perceive them. For instance, the English soccer fans are perceived to be violent because of the conducts of a few of them during major tournaments. During these occasions which are hosted in other nations, some of the fans engage in violent behavior while in bars and night clubs after being intoxicated. Accordingly, their local tend to perceive them as being violent. The outlook played a crucial role in the violence witnessed between the English and Russian fans during the 2016 European Cup competition. Therefore, the majority groups in a society tend to denigrate the minority ones because of the behaviors of a few that contravene the established social order.
References
Bender, S. W., & New York University. (2003). Greasers and gringos: Latinos, law, and the American imagination. New York ; London: New York University Press.
Hartlep, N. D. (2015). Modern Societal Impacts of the Model Minority Stereotype. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.
