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15 years ago @ World In Conversation - Why does society disli... · 0 replies · +1 points
Also, from the comments it seems like most Americans who are not in favor of immigration aren’t in favor of illegal immigration specifically. This is because being an illegal immigrant is breaking the law and even some legal immigrants feel that they had to work very hard to get to America and gain citizenship and every immigrant should do the same. I don’t think its right for people to not follow the law and not have any consequences for it. We all live in a society especially in America where if you commit a crime or go against the law there are going to be repercussions for doing so and it seems as if those same rules don’t apply to illegal immigrants and I think that’s what most Americans have a problem with. However, many Americans don’t realize how hard it is to become an actual citizen which is why so many people actually come to the United States illegally.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - Why does society disli... · 0 replies · +1 points
And the problems that some Americans have with illegal immigrants are the same as legal immigrants; the only difference is that Americans feel as though illegal immigrants are always referencing U.S. rights that they technically don’t have. Just reading the comments and opinions that some people have about immigrants it’s very clear that most comments that are made come from either pure ignorance or bitterness. It seems like many people have hade personal situations where they’ve been laid off or unemployed and have used the influx of immigrants taking jobs as a scapegoat. However, people fail to realize that immigrants play a major and important role in this country whether Americans like it or not. As we all know many immigrants take the jobs that most Americans don’t want anything to do with and will work for a lower wage.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - Why does society disli... · 0 replies · +1 points
Immigration has been a constant controversial debate in the U.S. for many years and a lot of Americans have opinions on the subject. I believe immigrants are portrayed badly for the simple fact that society dislikes immigrants. It seems as though society through the media have portrayed immigrants in a negative light as if they don’t belong and that’s what keeps this negative image of immigrants thriving. When I thought about why society disliked immigrants I wanted to research and find out some opinions that people who dislike immigrants may have and why. Some people claimed that they dislike all immigrants while others claim they don’t dislike immigrants in totality they only dislike the illegal ones. Those who disliked immigrants altogether said things like the immigrants that come here are working for less, they send the money they makes back to their families in their home country instead of supporting the U.S. economy and the immigrants refuse to become part American culture and speak English.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - What are your thoughts... · 0 replies · +1 points
I just think its unfair how people can come kill and steal the land of Native people, and then call it America without any remorse. Then on top of that to find some type of justification or to get rid of guilty feelings America may have and to make it “fair” we put these native people on reserved land that was originally their land to begin with. There are so many issues with reservations including the fact there are 550+ American Indian tribes that don’t even have a piece of land allotted to them. Not only that but so many American Indians were forced to live on reservations against there will and sometimes two different tribes were forced to live on one reservation which brought much conflict.
I just hope that through this lecture people recognize the struggles that so many American Indians face on reservations and the actual concept of having a reservation isn’t as noble of America as we may think it to be.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - What are your thoughts... · 0 replies · +1 points
It’s extremely sad how so many American Indians on reservations live and the statistics about their life expectancy is horrendous and I don’t understand why there isn’t anything being done about it. In my opinion it seems as if America sees American Indian reservations as almost being a separate country from the United States and one has nothing to do with the other. For example, the average life expectancy of a Native American male on a reservation is 48 years old and many deaths on the reservation are from suicide. They don’t even have access to the same basic essentials we, who don’t live on reservations, take for granted like running water.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - What are your thoughts... · 0 replies · +1 points
When I first did responded to the clicker question about how much I know about Native Americans and the lives they live on reservations I said that I didn’t know a lot. I mean yes I knew about the history of Native Americans and their land and how Europe traveled to America to kill its native people and steal their land but I didn’t know about life on the reservation today. In listening to the lecture on Tuesday I sat and thought about why I don’t know as much information about Native American life as I should and how I’ve never even met a Native American. I really like this lecture about the American Indian because in U.S. history and even when we discuss people on a geographical level we include all types of ethnicities other than the American Indian, the first people. America history books treat the Native American population as if they have been literally wiped off the face of the planet and don’t exist.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - How have you acted whe... · 0 replies · +1 points
So now I see myself as more of an educator, letting these people who may be ignorant that the N word is a derogatory word and shouldn’t be used because many African American people find it offensive and insulting. Its easier now to be able to let people know that they cant act the same way they do at home at Penn State because we are in a more diversified institution. Looking back Im glad I went through the racial experiences I did because now being in the work place I can adapt a lot easier.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - How have you acted whe... · 0 replies · +1 points
. While my other friends were able to laugh and shrug it off as if he was just being ignorant and should be ignored, something inside of me couldn’t do the same. Since I’ve never been called the N work before something it caused my body to have an adrenaline rush and it caused me to yell at the guy and curse him out. A lot of people always wonder why people get into fights over racial slurs instead of just explaining to the person that the word inappropriate. But I think people also have to understand that once you’re called something that is so derogatory and offensive you aren’t thinking about the most logical way to handle the situation, you’re reacting strictly off of your emotions at the moment.
However, as I’ve gone through my years at Penn State and having multiple encounter with racist people I’ve learned to pick and choose my battles and I handle them with more maturity and an understanding. Unlike my thoughts when I was younger I realized that many white people think saying the N word is completely appropriate where they come from
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - How have you acted whe... · 0 replies · +1 points
Ironically, or as surprising as it may seem being an African American female I haven’t been in any racist or discriminatory situations until I came to Penn State, and those situations have only made me grow as a person. When I was younger I was always seen as a quite person who didn’t like to be in the middle of conflict and pretty much a people pleaser. But now that I’m older I tend to be much more opinionated and assertive, and I sometimes I may be too assertive in certain situations especially racially hostile situations.
My first encounter with bigotry was the second semester of my freshmen year and I was living in East Halls. Some of my friends and I had went to the commons to get some studying done in one of the study lounges. While we were studying there was a white guy sitting behind us and as we were laughing and joking the guy sitting behind up had shouted a racial slur at us without hesitation and then laughed about it.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - What is your opinion o... · 0 replies · +1 points
In other words parents of African American youth often preached to their children that they should be proud to be African American therefore those children had higher self-esteem because of their parents telling them they should be proud to be who they are. This means African Americans take great pride in their culture and therefore not comparing themselves to anyone else.
Looking back at other research and seeing the proof of the high self esteem of African America girls I realized that there’s so much complexity in this situation that the answer of African American children preferring white dolls over black dolls is so much deeper and not s simple as we may have thought.
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