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- 131: Three Ways to End Racial Discrimination
- ... will decrease. Along with education about racial differences, comes respect and understanding of the differences. All African Americans are loud gangsters. All Hispanics are lazy. All Caucasians have superiority complexes. All Asians are smart. These stereotypes can be proven wrong with education. MLK was a prominent African American and certainly not a gangster. "Any time you have the opportunity to accomplish something and you don't, you are wasting your time ... of lazy. Knowing the traditional Asian culture shows three main values they stress: study hard, work hard, and family first. These values could account for Asian's academic success. All of these are examples of stereotypes proven wrong with a little education. With time, education, and exposure racism will end. The X generation should make strides to eliminate racism by giving it time to die, teaching children the fundaments of the ...
- 132: Discrimination Against Women
- ... equality of men and women, of human rights an fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field. Why can it spread so widely? It is perpetuated by the survival of stereotypes and of traditional cultural and religious practices and beliefs detrimental to women. Women always don't have the same human right as men. In this society, a number of countries throughout the world, women are ... no talent are happiness. Women need not to study, as they will marry men. The most important thing is to learn how to be a good wife. Textbooks used in schools often reinforce traditional, unequal stereotypes, particularly as these apply to employment and domestic and parenting responsibilities. Teachers may promote this type of gender-role stereotyping by discouraging female students from engaging in mathematics, sciences, sports and other so-called "male ...
- 133: T.S. Elliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent" and Alain Locke's "The New Negro
- ... larger, though humbler and less acknowledged ways""(1591). Locke wishes to acknowledge past Negro contributions to America. He finds it necessary to point out that the black man was never merely the sum of his stereotypes. It follows then that the New Negroes must replace the old false tradition with one that is accurate and acknowledges their contributions and achievements. Elliot and Locke differ in several ways. First of all, their ... contemporary artists to realize what their relationship to the past should be, that is a balance between tradition and innovation. Locke encourages both black and white Americans to abandon the false tradition that masquerade black stereotypes as truth. They both, however, call their readers to re-evaluate their relationship to the past, which is never bad advice. Works Cited Elliot, T.S. "Tradition and the Individual Talent" Heath Anthology of American ...
- 134: Racism
- ... guarantee for the rights of the minority groups. The NAACP, has brought numerous changes through public pressure, and by increasing people´s conciousness. For 89 years they have restlessly fought to end racial discrimination and stereotypes, to change attitudes and laws for the good, peace and unification of all americans, seeking to banish misunderstandings, prejudice, hate and separatism. Today, after continuos struggles "we affirm our commitment to the true American Dream ... reaffirmation of the treaty rights of North American indiginous nations, and the struggle for their land. American Indians have also been victims of discrimination in schools and universities. They have been hurt by the mascot stereotypes. An example of this is clerly seen at the Erwin High school, were Erwin´s girl teams are called "Squaws"which translated in some Native American languages may mean prostitute or may refer to a ...
- 135: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- ... who can not bear the sight of pain or physical suffering. It could represent that she has a frail soul with low tolerance for pain and suffering. The latter description carries over into the modern stereotypes about women as skittish and afraid members of society who need to be cared for(Patterson 2). The poor Parson is the ideal of what someone in his class ought to be. He is learned ... farm(Werthamer 25). During the fourteenth century, numerous millers were found to have unjustly detained up to four bushels of barely and corn. The Wife of Bath represents the other extreme in regards to female stereotypes of the Middle Ages. Unlike most women of the time, she has traveled a great deal and seems knowledgeable about things of the world. She is described as knowing much about love which is illustrated ...
- 136: America and Affirmative Action
- ... being in question and stigmatized in this country. When racial categories were created, simply being labeled a minority carried with it quite a slanderous stigma. Even to this day Black Americans combat lingering racism an stereotypes about their intelligence, tendency toward violence, sexual prowess, etc.... The idea that affirmative action policies introduce stigmas that did not already exist into the life of minorities seems nonsensical. To those who claim that this ... minority will always doubt that he or she deserves to be there, I propose that affirmative action will only accomplish the continued exclusion of Black Americans from participation within American society and thus further ingrain stereotypes and stigmas. Another reason that the stigma critique of affirmative action confuses me, is because the discussion is always limited to race and gender based affirmative action policies. Where is the discussion about athletes and ...
- 137: A Technical Analysis of Ergonomics and Human Factors in Modern Flight Deck Design
- ... Damon, 291-2). Detailed studies have been conducted about control design, and some concerns were such things as the ability of an operator to discern one control with another, size and spacing of controls, and stereotypes. It was stated that even with vision available, easily discernible controls were mistaken for another (Fitts, 898; Adams, 276). A study by Jenkins revealed a set of control knobs that were not prone to such ... yield. In the study, Bradley concluded that the optimum spacing between half-inch knobs would be one inch between their edges. This would yield the lowest inadvertent knob operation (Fitts, 901-2; Adams, 278). Population stereotypes address the issue of how a control should be operated (should a light switch be moved up, to the left, to the right, or down to turn it on?). There are four advantages that follow ...
- 138: Brave New World
- ... before you are born, your future is already written out for you. However upon further study, one will realize that this sort of precaution is necessary. In our world, one has to face racism and stereotypes because people feel threatened by what is different. This conditioning is how the utopian society eliminated the problem. First of all, each class is conditioned to love their ranking and to realize that everyone is ... we want to adapt to a society like Utopia? This is a world that one can not help but be happy, a world that replaced not destroyed religion, a world that even eliminated racism and stereotypes. It is a world where you only possess knowledge you need, where everyone has the same values and principals. Finally here is a world with no war, no disease and no old age. This question ...
- 139: In Shape
- ... defined homosexuality as sick, that it puts a legitimate fear into the hearts of people who are struggling with their identity. Even after coming out as lesbians, women self-reported themselves as believing the homosexual stereotypes. In Eliason’s study 100 women surveyed responded that they were: “Sick but not sorry.” The respondents felt they were born lesbians, and they accepted the dominant societal images and stereotypes about lesbians, with no regrets. Lesbians in this group were rarely “political.” When considering coming out in middle adulthood, these women looked at their careers, place of residence, and family and friend reactions (Eliason, p ...
- 140: Walking Across Egypt
- ... a dog," (20) she says to the dogcatcher as he is leaving with a brown fice that showed up on her doorstep. "Besides, I'm slowing down," she says to her son during lunch. The stereotypes of the elderly are influencing Mattie's life. She is telling herself not to do things because of her age whether or not she is physically able to do them, simply because people associate age ... She was slowing down." (177-178) He would have to tell Elaine about this incident, because she is having the same fears as he. Pearl Turnage, Mattie's older sister, has given in to the stereotypes that are now plaguing Mattie, and insists that she do the same. In fact, she invites Mattie to accompany her to the funeral home where they will each pick out a casket that they are ...
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