Many things are unfair or unjust. One of those things is racism towards minorities. From making it harder to get a job to making it difficult to own or buy a house for minorities’ racism takes a toll on people’s lives. Therefore, racism towards minorities is an unfair and a controversial situation in the United States. One of the ways racism towards minorities is unfair is by employment discrimination.…
Through his research, Sendhil Mullainathan concluded racism still exists today, whether it is a conscious decision or not. On average, African Americans earn less income than white people. Comparatively, African Americans tend to reside in lower class areas. This could explain the wage gap, but the article disproves the theory of “place not race.” In one study conducted by Marianne Betrand in 2003, identicle rèsumès with stereotypical black and white names were given to employers.…
Louis P. Pojman argues in his article, The Case against Affirmative Action, that even in extreme cases reverse racism and strong affirmative action are wrong. Pojman differentiates between strong and weak affirmative action and in his article he focus on strong affirmative action. Pojman defines strong affirmative action as preferential treatment to someone based on race, ethnicity, or gender in favor of the under represented groups to get equal rights. The first argument made for affirmative action that Pojman disagrees with is the role model argument.…
A particular example of social fact is racism. Racism is described as the belief in racial differences, which can cause discriminatory acts – where a distinct biological group is described as inferior; the members of a particular race are commonly faced with derogatory racial based comments, stereotypes and non-equal treatment. One of the main causes of racism is an individuals surrounding factors during their years of development and education – the passing down from generation to generation. Humans are not born racist; racism is a characteristic that is learnt, becoming intrinsic to the individual. Just as Durkheim explains there are no psychological or biological factors associated with the racism, hatred and stereotyping that an individual encompasses, but it is established from an outside…
Affirmative Action’s Hidden Undertones Our world is constantly aiming its decisions among color, a simple matter that presides with too many hidden details. Specifically, the color of human flesh tends to dictate a large portion of society’s ‘rules’ or actions towards treatment of one another. Many people have adapted affirmative action to counter mistreatment of minorities despite its flaws. In a 2013 Princeton poll, it is stated that “two-thirds of Americans believe college applicants should be admitted solely based on merit, even if that results in few minorities being admitted” yet “28% believe an applicant 's racial and ethnic background should be taken into account to promote diversity on college campuses.” Handling a situation with…
Unfortunately, in the United States the color of an individual’s skin will have an effect on the way a person is treated. Agustin Fuentes in his essay “The Myth of Race” discusses how the social idea of race impacts the way some races are treated. Fuentes mentions statistics about discrimination due to race and that “In test of housing markets conducted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), black and Hispanic potential renters and buyers are discriminated against (relative to whites) nearly 25 percent of the time” (Fuentes 529). The race, or skin color, that renters prefers is showed to be white as blacks and Hispanics are more likely to be judged. The result of this discrimination tends to segregate neighborhoods between the good white communities and the black or Hispanic dangerous communities.…
The human brain is not built solely to retain logical information for lengthened periods of time. Furthermore, the brain prefers retaining stories containing vivid language and essentially feeds off of it. Overall, it is less taxing to believe a single story than it is to accept that there are other important facts and opinions separate from the ones that they are aware of that make up a person, place, or idea. For instance, if a Caucasian child’s parents taught him or her to be racist against African Americans, the child would then become unaware of some of the most influential in the world since he or she was brought up thinking that all African Americans were incompetent compared to the Caucasian race. In addition, stereotyping threatens individuality which is an important value to the United States and is also becoming an increasingly widespread value as well.…
Whether you like it or not, we all have an implicit and explicit bias. These biases are forms of individual racism. Once we are born, we are primed to form biases towards other groups. The bias that we have can lead to racism In today’s society implicit bias is more prominent.…
Our Society is clearly changing, stating this obviously because the rise of racism, school policies, and what seems to be third world war. School policies have changed a great amount for three main reasons, one would be that you don't necessarily have to be physically in an class in order to take a exam, you can take it freely in the comfort in your own home. This has its ups and downs, firstly because you can easily cheat by looking up the answers on the internet because you have nobody looking over you such as a teacher would, although this can help by making you more comfortable while taking your exam or test. Which this leads to cheating, schools have become rampant that some schools want CCTV cameras in their exam rooms. Lastly community colleges have become less popular these ages.…
Is racism a learned habit or is it a born concept? What about love? Hate? Empathy? This ties into the idea of “nature vs. nurture”, which questions what human characteristics are genetic as opposed to the result of environmental factors.…
Learned racism over time is dominate because of the most reliable scientific studies of how people are racist by learning from nature. For instance, Robert Wright from the study of health explains that “It's not as if the human lineage could have plausibly developed, by evolutionary adaptation, an instinctive reaction to members of different races” (“That Racism Isn’t Natural”). Being racist could not of just natural developed in someone's brain when their are born. For example, American educators generally believe that children are “Mostly unaware of racial categories or racism, until they are taught to think and act consciously in ways that reproduce race” (Marable). Others studies have also found that “when whites see black faces there is increased activity in the amygdala, a brain structure associated with emotion and, specifically, with the detection of threats” (“Is Racism Natural”).…
It’s worth mentioning that in recent years the concept of racism has changed. Racism in the post-racial twenty-first century is now marked by subtlety. Subtle forms of racism that discriminates against individuals through unnoticeable or seemingly passive methods. Although overt racism has decreased since the 1960s, it has been supplemented by what is called colorblind racism,” which refers to “contemporary racial inequality as the outcome of nonracial dynamics” (Bonilla-Silva, 2010, p. 2). The color-blind theory refers to racial neutrality.…
Ethics are moral principles. It is unethical to offer incentives for charity acts, big or small, because it teaches society to only help others when it benefits themselves. Providing an incentive implies that people are only giving to charity for the reward rather than out of “the goodness of their hearts.” In “The ethicist”, Randy Cohen’s column in The New York Times magazine, Cohen writes “is the exchange of donations for grades ok?” Giving rewards to students who donate is unethical because it gives them a reason to donate that strays from the morals: generosity and selflessness.…
In his 2005 paper “Ethics and Intuitions,” Peter Singer seeks to find a new role for intuitions in moral theorizing in light of studies by Jonathan Haidt and Joshua Greene, which seem to cast doubt on the reliability of moral intuitions. These studies suggest that much of our moral reasoning is less based in rationalizing and more based in instinctual “gut” reactions, and that these instincts can be explained in terms of their evolutionary history. Further, Greene in particular demonstrates that these moral instincts can be manipulated in order to give contradicting reports, suggesting that moral intuitions are unreliable. Singer, noting how moral theorists have thus far been unable to give an account of morality without relying on moral intuitions,…
Code of Ethics IDIS 302 Andrew Asavarungsrikul Everyone on this planet has at least one thing that they value most in life, even if it’s life itself. It’s that one thing that acts as a pillar to the structure of a person’s moral character, possibly supported by other pillars, and it is these pillars that help define how a person lives their life as happily as they can. For myself, I value family, honesty, love, friendship, joy, and creativity. Although my family is far from picture-perfect, I still appreciate my family and care for them deeply.…