Racial Oppression Discussion Prompt

Racial Oppression Discussion Prompt

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Racial Oppression Discussion Prompt

Racism has been poisoning modern societies with its venom for hundreds of years. Many countries have witnessed the rise of such new political parties which played their part in spreading and defending xenophobic and conservative ideologies like Freedom Party of Austria and the Front National in France. In other words, the concept that one particular race is superior than others gave emergence to the social evil of xenophobia and racial oppression. Immigration, economic difficulties, nationalism, and global terrorism are the leading cause which gave confidence to oppression and violence of hate and fear. It has been noticed that such social evils have strongly affected South Africa, America, and Europe with their venom (Medina, 2013).

In history, Native Americans were the victim of white American’s stereotypes and xenophobic ideas because of their thirst of gold’s and land’s conquests. They were continuously targeted and humiliated for their skin color and given the lowest and hateful standard in the society by white Americans who called themselves superiors because of their skin color. As the years passed, when modernization and globalisation started establishing their roots, Native Americans stood up and raised their voice against such standards and conformed to the white American culture of their inhumane actions to avoid the oppression, hate, and famishment they knew.

Racism caught the attention of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century, but the idea that one group of people are above and superior than all the others has been circling in this world for thousands of years. For instance, in 15 and 16 century the Africans were considered as the lowest race and Europeans assumed that because of their fair skin color they are superior than Africans, and only because of this concept they found it rightful to make Africans as their slaves (Allen, 2014). Even farther in the past, Jews were enslaved by the Egyptians, and they were forced to build their pyramids without paying for their hard labor.

Moreover, it has been witnessed in the past and even today that if people of one country migrate to the other for their safety and shelter, they are not mostly welcomed in their new home because of their different religion, economic status, appearance, and nationalities. They face a very hard and tough time in finding jobs, settling and stabilizing in the society. For instance, Immigrants who come to united states of America to live a better and healthier life, they face an extremely difficult time in settling, they are paid less for their jobs as compared to the Americans. Also, it is extremely difficult for them to find a job that fits their qualification. Most of them do unpleasant jobs just for survival. It is happens mostly because English spokens are considered more appropriate and representable for the jobs and on the other hand, immigrants are considered impropriate and unfit because of their accent and nationalities.

As thousands of people migrate to the United States of America every single year, for the better standards of health and living, for their families and themselves, nativism occurs here the most. Now that people different people who belong from a different religion, races, and cultures have been settling in America for high living standards, the venom of racism xenophobia has started poisoning the society, and it is getting difficult to control it. Although, there are many steps taken by the government and social movements to kill such concepts once in and for all, but it is a hard task to accomplish. If it happens one day the world would be heaven.

References

Medina, J. (2013). The epistemology of resistance: Gender and racial oppression, epistemic injustice, and the social imagination. Oxford University Press.

Allen, T. W. (2014). The invention of the white race, Volume 2: The origin of racial oppression in Anglo-America (Vol. 2). Verso Books.