ORG 6499 Week 5 Assignment draft

DIVERSITY SITUATIONS AND CULTURAL DILEMMAS 5

Diversity Situations and Cultural Dilemmas

The University of Arizona Global Campus

ORG 6499 Cultural Diversity & Individual Differences Instructor: Cara Metz

April 19, 2021

Diversity Situations and Cultural Dilemmas

Introduction

Diversity situations and cultural dilemmas are continually experienced in the United States, with half of the US population being African-Americans. Most immigrants migrate to the US in search of job opportunities and good life. As a result, they fail to abide by the cultures, values, and beliefs of Americans. Immigrants who fail to assimilate lack the opportunities and advantages that the ones who assimilate have. As a result, they end up in low socioeconomic backgrounds as they also become vulnerable to police brutality, systemic racism, and others rape.

Describe The Diversity Situation or Cultural Dilemma and Your Interest in This Topic.

The Marginalized groups like African-America and Latino America, according to Bonilla-Silva (2015), experience many inhuman activities that cause extreme tortures and life-threatening situations to their lives and that of their families. They reciprocate by demanding their rights leading to illegal immigration, police brutality, and systemic racism. The three topics are my interest since they have some commonality to what the marginalized groups experience. The minority groups experience oppression through police brutality, systemic racism in structural aspects, and illegal immigration bias. Since the minority group cannot wholly assimilate into American culture, they create a cultural gap leading to cultural dilemmas. They also experience diversity in workplaces, age, and social structures. The people of color lack opportunities in every systemic benefit due to the host country's harsh treatment.

Describe The Cultural Groups Impacted by This Topic

The minority groups involved in a diverse situation, according to Bonilla-Silva (2015), are the African-Americans and Latino Americans. They are the cultural groups in America that experience diverse situations and cultural dilemmas such as illegal immigration, police brutality, and systemic racism. The people of color experience stigmatization due to excess oppression, discrimination, and self-excluded from the mainstream of American Culture. The social practices deter African-American and Latino Americans from engaging in helpful activities, creating a gap between Americans and people of color. As a result, the immigrants engage in criminal activities to fend for their well-being and end up in police hands.

What Are Some of the Societal and Historical Forces Which Might Have Created This Situation or Dilemma?

Roberson et al. (2017) studies describe that when settlers arrived in the western hemisphere in the early times, they barely recognized indigenous native Americans' rights. The westerners fought native tribes, fought to convert them to Christianity, and turned them into slaves for the American colonies. Most indigenous native American population succumbed to emerging diseases, and battles making the European Americans be the dominant population. Bonilla-Silva (2015) further describes that the fight for freedom for civil rights, the right to life, equal treatment, globalization, and the struggle for system change directed black Americans to experience police brutality and systemic racism. The African American and Latino Americans were forced into labor and brutal treatment as they become the least prosperous and unstable group in European nations. Their rights to education for civilization were taken away by oppression and discrimination, making them vulnerable to colonizers' brutal treatment.

The dilemmas created foresaw Black-Americans relocating to reservations during history with the emergence of many untreated diseases and starvations. The European colonizers considered black Americans unskilled humans who did not deserve better lives but could only benefit from slavery. Therefore, this created a cultural gap and widened the systemic racism in European nations. The indigenous native Americans reciprocated by fighting back by developing various movements that changed different political situations. The fight for land, education, equality, and living in suburban areas created the cultural dilemmas and diversity situations that African-American and Latino Americans face now.

Provide One Argument from Each Perspective Regarding the Topic.

Illegal Immigration

Most African-Americans and Latino Americans illegally migrate from their country of origin while violating the laws to settle in European countries. Since most of them originate from developing countries, immigrants migrate in search of opportunities and better life. Illegal immigration poses a threat to individuals that continues to create a gap and cultural dilemmas. The Black-Americans who have illegally migrated to host countries, according to Burkett & Hayes (2018), live in fear of being deported as president trump immigration laws dictated. As a result, they form alliances with illegal groups for identification as they maneuver their lives through European countries. When President Trump entered office, he enacted laws on immigration and customs enforcement that deterred Immigrants from migrating to America.

Police Brutality

Due to racism, oppressions, discriminations, and hatred that the Black-Americans experience in host countries, the police, in return, uses force to physically, emotionally, and psychologically torture the people of color. Research studies from Lyle & Esmail (2016) indicate that most Black-Americans are the victims of shootings in America that create different movements to safeguard indigenous lives.

Systemic Racism

Systemic racism involves discrimination in search for institutional services like healthcare, social benefits, and workplaces. According to Bonilla-Silva (2015), most Black-Americans experience systemic racism in healthcare settings and workplaces. Women and children from marginalized groups succumb to chronic illnesses, pregnancy-related complications, and HIV/Aids complications due to lack of inequality in healthcare services. The Black-Americans, in return, fail to seek medical help due to the brutal treatment they receive in search of better care. Additionally, Black-Americans also receive low wages in the workplace setup. They occupy unskilled occupations that do not require professionalism to acquire, leading to low wages that cannot settle their needs.

Conclusion

Diversity situations and cultural dilemmas in European countries have been common phenomena since historical times. Most Black Americans experience harsh treatments in host countries in search of opportunities. Systemic racism and police brutality has been on the rise, with slight changes being effected. Racism and police brutality has become a societal menace to deal with daily. Therefore, the government should create stringent policies and laws to govern institutions for equality services.

References

Bonilla-Silva, E. (2015). The structure of racism in color-blind, "post-racial" America.

Burkett, J., & Hayes, S. (2018). Campus administrators' responses to Donald Trump's immigration policy: Leadership during times of uncertainty. International Journal of Educational Leadership and Management, 6(2), 98-125.

Lyle, P., & Esmail, A. M. (2016). Sworn to protect: Police brutality–a dilemma for America's police. Race, Gender & Class, 23(3-4), 155-185.

Roberson, Q., Ryan, A. M., & Ragins, B. R. (2017). The evolution and future of diversity at work. Journal of applied psychology, 102(3), 483.