Racism, Prejudice And Racial Discrimination

Our book defines racism as the discrimination against an ethnic group. Racism is expressed through, but not only, stereotyping and segregation. Racial stereotypes have been a problem since the slave era and is still a problem today. Segregation as well has been prevalent since the slave era. Stereotypes are beliefs of a group based on their background, skin color, and culture. On the other hand, segregation is the separation of people based on skin color, ethnicity, and culture. Genocide is also an act of racism. Genocides are the mass murder of an ethnic group. We have experience many genocides over the years. The most famous one was the killing of the Jews by the Nazis in 1933. Some people still negate the horrifying act that happened on

Being wealthy gives you the power to do everything, and to get away with everything. For example, on February 20th 2017, Ryan Steeves, one of the teacher assistance, was giving a presentation, Ethnicity, Economy, and Politics, and he talked about how power and social class all related. The Banana Republics videos on the presentation shows us a great example of how power and social class rules the society. There were three main fruit companies, United Fruit Co., Cuyamel Fruit Co., and Vaccaro Bros., they were the rulers of everything and they made the decisions because they had a lot of money. For example, the company of Cuyamel killed the Honduras president because they gave some of its land to the Cuyamel’s competitors. Moreover, they convinced the United States that Honduras was trying to be communist, so the US killed the president of Honduras, again. Being wealthy, high social class, and power are all connected and it is how society

The video, The Long Struggle for Justice in Guatemala, talked about the genocide and how the government denied the act of this massacre in Guatemala. Even with physical, living, archeological, and forensic proof the government still does not recognize the horrifying act that they committed. They covered all their murders by burning villages. The main cause of this genocide was politics. This massacre happened because the Guatemalan Government believed that the Mayas were working towards a communist revolution. As a fear of having a communist revolution they decided to kill all the Mayas, destroying crops, animals, taking the water supply, etc. This is an example of how people with high social class and power controls the moves on a