This week in Common Hour we discussed diversity, social identities and social justice. All of these topics were extremely important to me as I’ve never had to deal with them before (racism, homophobia and sexism are widely spread and totally acceptable back home). I’ve really...
The world as we’ve come to know it is an extremely diverse place, the human race being one of its many unique features. The population of mankind showcases a wide variety of religions, races, orientations. With how unique the planet around us is, it’s within...
The freedom of speech law was made to exhort pluralism and acceptability in general public in order to bring them together. The law is also there to liberate people from the fear of speaking their hearts out about controversies and their perspective on sects, cults,...
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan views the growing irrational and powerful fear of Islam and its followers (otherwise known as “Islamophobia”) to be one of the greatest threats and encumbrances of peace and development for Islamic nations and their people. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan...
Islamophobia fear and prejudice of being against the religion of Islam and Muslims. A phobia is an irrational fear, though some say it isn’t irrational to fear Muslims. Though people think islamophobia affected people after 9/11, the term was created in the 1980’s. There are...
In a time when a black man lives in the White House, most Americans believe their nation has moved past racial oppression. Police Shootings may still grab headlines, but adherents to colorblindness view them largely as an isolated problem. In The New Jim Crow, Michelle...
In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, author Michelle Alexander delves into the troublesome topic of social control mechanisms through the lens of race. Alexander, a professor of law at Ohio State University and joint-appointee at the Kirwan Institute of...
The Marrow of Tradition by Charles Waddell Chesnutt utilizes inequalities tied to the era of the American South where the Wellington Insurrection of 1898 occurred as a result of growing racial tensions coupled with the growing divide of economic opportunity among the people there and...
For my final project, I have decided to write a short story comparing the Danish family life with the Chinese family life. My idea was inspired by a book called East Meets West, it is a book written by a graphic artist Yang Liu. At...
By definition, peer pressure is social pressure by members of one’s peer group to take a certain action, adopt certain values, or otherwise conform to be accepted. Everyone, during a period of their life, experiences peer pressure. There are three different forms of peer pressure:...
Introduction: when have you experienced cultural differences? Introduction: Our culture molds us, molds our behavior, and our sense of self. Our way of life is defined by the shared language, ideas, values, conventions, behaviors, and material items that are passed down from generation to generation....
Mahatma Gandhi said, “No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive” (Yadav 2012). When culture is held as exclusive to one specific group it eventually fades away. However, when it is shared and intermingled with other groups or societies, a culture can sustain...
In Bill Quigley’s article, “18 Examples of Racism in the Criminal Justice System,” he introduces the topic of racial profiling by displaying the statistics of criminal offences by the African Americans compared to the whites. The population of the African Americans in the United States,...
People who are pulled over the most tend to have a darker skin tone. Racial profiling has been a debated about argument since the beginning of slavery, and although the days of calling our white slave owners master is long gone, we are still a...
In the article, “Our Language Prejudices Don’t Make No Sense,” Raffaella Zanuttini criticizes the people that express anger when they hear others use double negatives in a sentence. She criticizes the proponents of civilization that fail to criminalize the expressions of prejudice against people that...
“Ain’t I a Woman?” definitely involved the most kairos. Sojourner Truth saw that many women had gathered to fight for their rights, and she decided to present a different side of the argument. Women had been denied rights to vote and hold property and such,...
Sexism is the prejudice against genders, especially against women. This has been around for a very long time, there women have not been treated equally as men are. This discrimination victimises females in many aspects including the workforce, attitude and even society in general; this...
The politico-economic interests of states – behind the contemporary combats – to topple unfavorable governments abroad, to seek easy trade deals, to utilize natural resources across the world and to establish a desired world order make the modern wars, not the holy wars. Holy wars...
Revolt of the Evil Fairies”, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”, and “Trifles” each have an unseen presence that is so prevalent that it might as well be a character. “Revolt of the Evil Fairies” indirectly discusses the topic of racism, while “A Perfect Day for...