The Color Of Someone's Skin Is Affected By Our Society Today
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Negative to positive Being different is something that people in society seem to not understand and I believe it scares them. Society has standards and expects something out of all of us, and when someone or something is different, society tries to push it out. Racism has been something that goes way back, and has caused laws to be made. Unfortunately racism still continues today, even with the laws that were made. My question in particular is why does the color of someone’s skin looked upon so negatively by our society? Even if race is looked upon by our society as negative as it is, people don’t understand that we are all the same and nothing has ever been different but our skin color. In the 1800’s and 1900’s race was such a huge thing. Black American’s were made out to seem like they were not equal to the white and got treated very harshly, and got the short end of the stick. White folks made it clear that in their minds, they were above the blacks, and deserved better. They got to sit …show more content…
Sometimes it doesn’t seem to come across as racist to some people, like putting Asians in the category that they’re always smart because that’s how Asians are. Mexicans are categorized as only being good at cleaning, cooking, cutting grass, and growing crops. Whereas Arabs, Germans, and Koreans are known as terrorists and enemies of the country because of what has happened in the past. All of these classifications seem like nonsense because they just make a negative aspect of all ethnicities and stereotyping needs to stop so it can strengthen us not only as American’s, but as equals because for this nation to ever have a chance of getting rid of this racial profiling is to come together. Our children today also play an extremely huge role of us coming
Negative to positive Being different is something that people in society seem to not understand and I believe it scares them. Society has standards and expects something out of all of us, and when someone or something is different, society tries to push it out. Racism has been something that goes way back, and has caused laws to be made. Unfortunately racism still continues today, even with the laws that were made. My question in particular is why does the color of someone’s skin looked upon so negatively by our society? Even if race is looked upon by our society as negative as it is, people don’t understand that we are all the same and nothing has ever been different but our skin color. In the 1800’s and 1900’s race was such a huge thing. Black American’s were made out to seem like they were not equal to the white and got treated very harshly, and got the short end of the stick. White folks made it clear that in their minds, they were above the blacks, and deserved better. They got to sit …show more content…
Sometimes it doesn’t seem to come across as racist to some people, like putting Asians in the category that they’re always smart because that’s how Asians are. Mexicans are categorized as only being good at cleaning, cooking, cutting grass, and growing crops. Whereas Arabs, Germans, and Koreans are known as terrorists and enemies of the country because of what has happened in the past. All of these classifications seem like nonsense because they just make a negative aspect of all ethnicities and stereotyping needs to stop so it can strengthen us not only as American’s, but as equals because for this nation to ever have a chance of getting rid of this racial profiling is to come together. Our children today also play an extremely huge role of us coming