...There are many psychological terms that can explain different influences for behavior. For instance, deindividuation in a group setting can influence behavior. Joining a cult or a gang can change one’s behavior entirely, taking away their entire sense of individual identity and get lost within the group. Social loafing within a group can be problematic and negatively influence a person’s behavior. If a group of students are working together on a project, the students will put less effort in individually to reach the collective goal because they know that that they can shrug off some of the responsibilities because others will pick up the slack. The door-in-the-face phenomenon is a common tactic for someone to use to get something that they would want. This phenomenon enables even the most honest person to deceive someone into giving in to their wishes or demands. If I wanted money from my mom to go to the mall and I was using the door-in-the-face phenomenon I would first ask her for $100, knowing she would say no. Then I would make a second request, only for $25, knowing that she would find the second request more reasonable, and more likely give in to my request, and I would get the money for the mall. Social facilitation can either have a positive or negative effect on behavior. If Genna is the top swimmer on the swim team, she is more likely to swim even better when she has an audience. But on the other hand, Genna is not a strong volleyball player, and she only plays...
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...tied to its domestic policies in many aspects, such as the impression of women as well as the racial economy related to corporate culture. When it came to the impression of women in the international policy, the word, “diplomatic wives”, occurred to the mind. From the perspective of domestic part, women obtained their desired right to the elective franchise in 1920. It indicated the improvement of women’s status and their involvement in politics aspect. From the perspective of international policies, as in the article of Diplomatic Wives stated, “hundreds of married women accompanied their Foreign Service husbands to diplomatic and consular posts” (Wood 3). Those diplomatic not only preformed their traditional responsibilities as wives but also maintain American representation in diplomatic missions. For example, they would live well and dress appropriate without enough expense fee just in order to show goodwill of America. All of the involvement of women in diplomatic derived from the improvement of women status in the United States. Therefor, domestic and international policy were connected in the part of women’s effect. Another connection between domestic policy and international policy was racial economy that corporate preferred white instead of black. As is well known, there were a serious segregation within the U.S, although the slavery was abolished. This kind of racial...
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...Racial Diversity in Society Angela Rowland ETH/125 October 13, 2013 Arletha Ndoume Racial Diversity in Society Part I African Americans seem to fall below regarding political, social and economic standings. Economically, their income has improved over the past fifty years. They now report a median income of what White men were making 50 years ago. In 2009, the median income for Blacks was $32584, and for Whites it was $54461.00. (Schaefer, 2012) As much as the income has increased for African Americans, it has also increased for White men. That suggests they are still the less than race. It could be said that their economic status is a result of poor college enrollment or graduation among their race. The reduction in financial aid availability has deterred African Americans from applying for higher education, and the stigma that comes with trying to succeed in school as an African American does the same. In the social aspect, there seems to be consistency of broken families among the race. Single parent families account for 91% of the households. (Schaefer, 2012) This is a shocking statistic. Although, they are broken families, there seems to be very strong generational family ties. Each generation seems to take responsibility for the younger generation. There are several instances where the grandmothers are raising the grandchildren. There will likely be multi generations in one home. They also have strong religious values and attend church together weekly. There...
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...make matters worse. The movie “American History X” is an admirable alterable attempt to inform us about these types of malicious ignorance that plague our society. The impeccable acting, artistic cinematography, occasional adrenaline-pumping score, and slightly faulted, though award-worthy script, all combine to create an over all exceptional film. American History X should not be immediately dismissed as an archetypal account of a controversial issue, it provides much more that what an audience would expect from a movie of this nature: it is an innovative drama about the unfortunate consequences of racism in a family that is surprisingly yet, frightening realistic it. The racial identity that plays in to American History X also plays out to what the authors of Omi and Winant describe in there novel “Racial Formation and plays into act with Michael Rogin, “The Sword Became a Flashing Vision”: D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation. Finally, the film shows that it is not just the white neo-racists who are fools to be involved in this, but that all racism is foolish. Through these methods, the film shows the viewer, extremely convincingly, that hatred and racism will destroy a person and those around them. The dynamic that greatly contributes to the efficiency of American History X, is the illustrious acting. Edward Norton flawlessly plays Derek Vineyard, the main character in the movie, who is angered but the murder of his father by two African-American people who then, therefore turns...
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...landmark case which stated state laws which had allowed the establishing of different public schools for African American and white pupils to be against the constitution. The verdict overruled the 1896 decision of Plessy v. Ferguson decision, a ruling that permitted state-sponsored segregation, provided it applied to public education. The Brown V. Topeka decision ruled that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal (CRMVet.org, n.d., p. 1954, para. 3)." Because of this decision, racial segregation was decreed to be in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The Brown V. Topeka Board of Education ruling would lead the way for desegregation and became a vital triumph in the civil rights movement. At the time of the Brown ruling, much of the southern United States was segregated. Racial segregation was hardly a fresh occurrence; almost all African Americans had been subject to slavery prior to the Civil War. Nor was racial segregation a new concept, but one that has occurred as early (and likely earlier) as the days of the Tang Dynasty. Under segregation, signs were posted showing African Americans where they could, under the protection of the law to walk, converse, dine or even use the bathroom. Even in areas already racially integrated, African Americans were still forced to wait on white customers to be served or waited on first. The segregation of races affected the lives of African Americans considerably...
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...Racial Profiling and Male African Americans Racial Profiling and Male African Americans INTRODUCTION Imagine driving to the store on a cold winter day, dressed in a hoodie to keep warm. You simply pull into the parking lot in hopes of getting something nice for your daughter for the holidays. Driving the posted speed limit, you pull slowly into a parking space in the back of the store. All of a sudden, a car pulls up behind you, blocking you in. You look in your rearview mirror only to find the community crime watch officer staring you down. The officer immediately treats you like a suspect, smothering you with questions concerning what you’re doing, where you’re going; yet never really had any reasoning behind the questions. After an aggravating experience, they send you on your way. Now imagine you are black and the officer is white. You have probably just experienced racial profiling. WHAT IS RACIAL PROFILING? One of the most important civil rights facing our nation today is racial profiling. The main source of those accused of racial profiling are police officers. In the eyes of citizens, racial profiling by a police officer can be defined as “any police-initiated action that relies on the race, ethnicity or national origin rather than behavior of an individual or information that leads the police to a particular individual who has been identified as being, or having been, engaged in criminal activity” (Ramirez, 2000). For instance, concerning traffic stops...
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...06 Myles Addison South Africa’s apartheid policy is the name of the racial institution that was created in 1948 by South Africa’s white population that was dominated by the Boers. The Boers kept a separation from all black African, Asian, and European people. The term, which means “apartness,” reflected a violently repressive policy, which was designed to make sure that whites, who only comprised 20% of the nation's population, would continue to exercise control over the country. When the apartheid policy was passed in 1948, it resulted in a “mini apartheid” being created for other ethnic groups and a “grand apartheid” for only the black Africans. What this did was relocate black Africans to homeland areas where they were considered laborers for the white population. Even though the policy officially began in 1948, racial discrimination practices were already deeply rooted in South Africa. Dutch colonizers started creating regulations and laws that segregated blacks and whites. This was being done as early as 1788. These practices continued even after 1795 when the British occupation ended. This is what led to the assignment of the black Africans homelands. When the enactment of the apartheid policy in 1948, led by a Dr. D.F. Malan, who was “the” main mastermind of the apartheid, racial laws were put into place and touched every facet of social living, including the ban of marriages between inter-racial couples, and even going as far as to label some jobs for whites only...
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...Stacy Flores POLS 210 B045 Fall 12 American Government I Professor Carlos Soltero Fall Term Final Exam Question 1 Brown v. Board of Education (1954) This case dealt with racial segregation in a public school which was the norm across America in the early 1950’s. All schools in a given district were in fact supposed to be equal, however, most black schools were far inferior to white schools. This case was based on a black third grader by the name of Linda Brown in Topeka, Kansas, having to walk a mile through a railroad switchyard to get to her black elementary school even though a white elementary school was only seven blocks away from her home. Oliver Brown, Linda’s father, tried to enroll her in the white elementary school that was one seven blocks away but the principal of the school refused. Oliver Brown then commenced to McKinley Burnett which was the head of Topeka’s branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and asked for their help with this matter. The NAACP in fact helped Mr. Brown due to it’s long desire to challenge segregation in public schools. Other black parents joined Brown in the complaint and in 1951; the NAACP requested an injunction that would forbid the segregation of Topeka’s public schools. The U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas heard Brown’s case. At the trial, the NAACP argued that segregated schools sent the message to black children that they were inferior to whites and...
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...Birmingham’s police commissioner Bull Connor. This was Dr. King’s 13th arrest and during this time he was kept in solitary confinement where he pinned the famous “Letters from Birmingham Jail.” In this letter Dr. King addressed the criticism that had been published in the Birmingham News from a group of eight local white clergymen who codenamed his methods of using non-violent protests to eliminate racial injustice. In the open letter the eight clergymen felt that though injustice did exist in the American society that the battle against racial segregation should be addressed in the courts verses in the streets. They also felt as it the protest was unwise and untimely and seemed to take issue to the fact that the protest was organized and led by outsiders. In Dr. King’s response his aim was to defend the use of non-violent protests and also to appeal to the American society, both black and white. In the beginning of Dr. King’s letter, he responds to the criticism that he and his fellow activists were “outsiders” causing trouble in Birmingham. Dr. King refers to his responsibilities as the president of the SCLC, which also had affiliated organizations throughout the southern states, including the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Right. He informs his critics that he was invited by the SCLC Birmingham affiliate because of the injustice that African American’s were being...
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...ENC 1102 Research Paper May 1st, 2013 Unreasonable Discrimination Racial discrimination is an issue that has persisted through many centuries and across geographical boundaries. Members of the black race have been strongly affected by racial discrimination since colonial times when white conquerors brought blacks from Africa as slaves to carry out hard labor jobs. Meanwhile, conquerors treated African slaves as inferior and usually worse than an animal. Society has evolved since and through a lot of work and effort, in the United States and most countries in the world slavery has been abolished and there is a constitutional equality among citizens regardless of their race or background. However, in reality our society even today experiences different degrees of racial discrimination. In spite of this, African Americans have fought against racial discrimination sometimes resorting to physical means, but most importantly utilizing intellectual means. African Americans through centuries have written poems, stories, plays and motivational speeches that express their pride in overcoming hardships in a way that could never be silenced. This way, African Americans have shown over the years that they are not an “inferior” race as it was considered in colonial times. The Homo sapiens species is so diverse that it is difficult to draw clear lines between humans based on their race or the color of their skin. However, even today societies attempt to classify people...
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...or intermarriage between racial groups. Regulated by state law, miscegenation was illegal in many states for decades. However, interracial marriage in the United States has been fully legal in all U.S. states since the 1967 Supreme Court decision, Loving v. Virginia, that decreed all state antimiscegenation laws unconstitutional. Many states, of course, had chosen to legalize interracial marriage much earlier. According to a May 14, 2012, Huffington Post article entitled “Interracial Marriage Statistics: Pew Report Finds Mixed-Race Marriage Rates Rising,” the 1980 Census (the first to collect data on interracial marriage) reported that 3% of all married couples were from different races. The number had risen to 8.4% (one in twelve couples) by 2010. Looking at marriages recorded in the years between 2008 and 2010, we find that 22% of newly-married couples in Western states were of different races or ethnicities, compared to 14% in the South, 13% in the Northeast, and 11% in the Midwest. QUESTION 1: Analyze and evaluate each case independently by providing the following (about two paragraphs per case): LOVING V. VIRGINIA CASE. 1. Facts of the case: In 1958, Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were married in the District of Columbia. The two had gone to the District of Columbia to obtain a marriage license and returned to their home state of Virginia afterward. The couple was then charged with and convicted of inter-racial marriage later on they were...
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...the segregation of schools in May of 1954. The desegregation of schools has helped people of all races grow up together in a non-hostile environment where they can develop relationships with people of other races. Throughout the play A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry criticizes the racial and discriminatory climate of America in the 1950s and early 60s. It becomes obvious to the reader that the racial tension Hansberry experienced growing up reflected on the way her literature is written. Moss and Wilson state that, “Lorraine Hansberry’s South Side childhood, particularly her father’s battle to move into a white neighborhood, provided the background for the events in the play” (314). Hansberry experienced many of the situations she placed the Younger family at first hand. Hansberry’s father, Carl Hansberry, was put in a similar circumstance when he moved his family into a predominately white community at the opposition of the white neighbors. He eventually won a civil rights case on discrimination. Speaking of the United States, Adler states, “A Raisin in the Sun is a moving drama about securing one’s dignity within a system that discriminates against, even enslaves, its racial minorities” (824). Lena Younger, known as Mama, is in her...
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...racist ideologies that have led to the marginalization and oppression of various minority groups in American society. The ideology of white supremacy has led to discriminatory legislation and allowed racist sentiments to permeate the social institutions aimed to serve the citizens of this country. Minorities in general and African Americans in particular, have historically been the primary targets of the discrimination in this society exercised not only by governmental institutions in this country, but also by the majority of the white population in this country. With the end of the Jim Crow era, proponents of white supremacy were now faced with a new dilemma, how to continue the oppression of African Americans in this country in a “post-racial” society. American society began to be seen as a “color-blind” environment, which made the discrimination of individuals based on race non-permissible. Discrimination now had taken a new form, instead of discriminating against African Americans based on race; supporters of white supremacy now criminalized and labeled them as criminals. Michelle Alexander in her book The New Jim Crow, explains how this new form of discrimination continued the same oppression towards African Americans that was exercised in the Jim Crow era and was now “justified” by discriminating them on the basis of criminal behavior. Through the creation of this new system of criminalization, Michelle Alexander explains how the stigma and discriminatory legislation that...
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...Dear Mr. President, We as citizens of the United States must participate in helping to develop the government and society. We can’t ignore our civic responsibilities. If we do, the important decisions that need to be made are in the hands of the elected officials. Those officials have power over the government and everything in it. People have a huge influence and impact on the government, their decisions matter. The fewer people involved in pushing that influence, the less that the government will consider or represent the wishes of the people. I am writing to you to ask that we make a national holiday for Ida B. Wells. She deserves to have a day that is dedicated to her, a day that focuses on her contribution to Civil Rights. Wells was an active black female journalist that wrote about many subjects including those of segregation, women’s rights, and anti-lynching. She was very outspoken and wanted the world to hear what she had to say. She wanted to bring attention to the continued failure of civil rights. Her contribution, along with many others, helped to end segregation and restricted voting. When Wells took a train ride in May of 1884, from Memphis to Nashville, her motivations were made very clear. She had bought a first-class ticket for the ride and was furious when crew members ordered her to move to the car for African Americans. She refused and was forcibly removed from the train. Wells sued the railroad and won a $500 settlement in a circuit court case. The decision...
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...Africa and Rwanda are two African countries that have experienced conflict and applied different reconciliation approaches. Apartheid rule in South Africa involved a system of racial separation and discrimination that governed the country from 1948 to 1994. The National Party (NP) had built the apartheid model as way for them to preserve the superiority of the white in South Africa. Individuals within the country were categorized based on their color or race. During this period inhumane policies were used to maintain the dominance of the white racial groups within South Africa. Some of these policies include denying the right of individual liberty and life, dividing the population based on race and the exploitation of blacks within the...
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