Examples Of Discrimination In The United States

Discrimination Awareness in the United States

In the United States, it is apparent that there is a struggle over the matters of race and equality. The evidence lays in the forms of police brutality, religious freedom laws, and how certain races are treated. In today’s society, discrimination1 is a huge problem that affects everyone on a personal level. Andrew Cuomo once said “I believe that discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.” Those words speak volumes and should be engraved into the heads of those who have the audacity to say that discrimination is not an issue today. The intolerance in America is projected by media and affects everyone: by race, religion, age, gender, wealth, and much more. The boundless

Ever since the traumatic and unforgivable events that took place on 9/11, Muslims in America have been viewed as a potential terrorist. In contradiction, 94% of the terrorist attacks performed in the United States from 1980 to 2005 were committed by non-Muslims (Alnatour). The same study concludes that the rates of Jewish terrorism were higher than the Islamic rates, but when these felonies reach the news the Islamic crimes are publicized on a greater and more urgent scale. The media in America helps to expand and create these prejudices. As the world becomes more technologically advanced, one must look between the lines and identify fact from

Similar to how Muslims are seen with a bias, immigrants in the United States endure an almost identical intolerance. Approximately 13 percent of the U.S. population, nearly 40 million, is foreign-born (Dudek). While it is part of the American dream that every citizen be treated equally and given the chance to achieve great things, that is not always the case. Americans seem to have a misconception that all immigrants are lesser and don’t try to accommodate to the English language, laws, or culture engulfing the states. This profiling and discrimination leads to resentment on the citizen's part, often times over the issues of occupation availability. These immigrant groups already have social disadvantages and yet there are laws (dating back to when President John Adams was in office) that prevent these people from coming in the first place or forcing them to leave; some policies targeting immigrants include the Alien and Sedition Acts, Chinese Exclusion Act, Immigration Act of 1924, the Alien Registration Act, and the Executive Order 9066. Nobody should be entrusted with the executive decision to limit people escaping worse living conditions nor should said people have the right to send back peaceful Japanese during WW2. Why should the United States government put a limitation on immigrants when dating back