harassed, assaulted and beaten with bats. In fact, Muslims and Hindus were also tortured and killed after 9/11, and till today there are cases of bullying Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs in almost the whole America. During the weekend of ill-fated 9/11, Balbir Singh Sodhi, an Arizona Sikh, was gunned down wh... ... middle of paper ... ...According to this report, the most important reason of bullying is the absence of Sikhs in school textbooks due to which not everybody know about Sikhs. The heartless attack
Introduction During this course, I had the opportunity to watch several documentaries that enlightened men on different perspectives of cultural diversity. These documentaries contained a variety of different methods used to examine several cultural diversity issues within America. Racism, sexism, ageism, and social class were the main topics that were examined in these videos and documentaries. As part of the process, researchers creatively designed experiments that uncovered how people instinctively
American soil, a Sikh owner of a Chevron Gas station in a Phoenix suburb was murdered by a gunman. This was one of the first major cases of violence against Sikh-American in wake of the attacks. The 42 year old gunman Frank Roque killed 49 year old Balbir Singh Sodhi because he was lashing out at "Arabs" after watching repeated footage of World Trade Center attacks on television. When Mr. Roque was being arrested he repeatedly shouted "I stand for America all the way." NewsFeed Timeline A History of Violence
We are now a consumer based society, where we rely entirely on buying alone, not the trio of production, jobs, and purchasing. The economy now revolves around Starbucks. This has cost us our jobs because the production and the job part have moved overseas, where cheap labors are easily acquired. Drinking Starbucks’ coffee is more than just about the quality and the functionality; it’s about an expression of longing, a source of entertainment, a strategy for mood management, and a form of symbolic
term “Muslim terrorists” signifies how the norm of our society is still a white Christian (Singh). Religious and racial bias keep affecting the community of the United States negatively (Singh). In the wake of terrorist attacks in the 2000s, Muslims have been targeted for hate crimes by racists who found them to be convenient scapegoats for dehumanized, nonwhite "others" at whom they wanted to strike (Singh). Due to their visibility and appearance, Muslim were proportionately singled out for harassment
Historically, the United States of America has a long history of shaping its ideology from a series of significant events of unspeakable brutality. This forces Americans to draw conclusions, which often leads to denouncing a particular body of people. For example, the enslavement of African Americans, the decimation of Native Americans, and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Currently, while enduring several years in the U.S., Muslim Americans face difficulties as a human being
taken patriotism to an excessive level after the terrorist attacks that brought down the World Trade Center towers. Americans are certain that they are being patriotic and protecting their country by gettin... ... middle of paper ... ...bir Singh Sodhi, a 49-year-old Sikh, four days after September 11. He said, “I'm a patriot and an American. I'm American. I'm a damn American,” to the officers as he was being arrested (Fleet). After September 11 we were socialized to have specific feelings about
On September 11, 2001 millions of Americans were getting ready for another ordinary day of work, but little did they know the world as they knew it would change. Four airplanes were hijacked by terrorists and crashed into the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. The fourth plane was crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania after passengers retaliated against the hijackers. The terrorist attacks on America that day were performed by an Islamic terrorist group name al-Queda, led by Osama
Islamophobia - the intense dislike and fear Islam, the hostility and prejudice towards Muslims and people of Arabian distant. It has elements of both religious and racial discrimination. It’s a collective social anxiety that results in Americans having fearful attitudes and avoiding Muslims along with any aspect of Islam altogether. The term Islamophobia, in the used involving hate crimes and discrimination, started to be used in the 1970’s and between the 1980’s and the 1990’s slowly increased
Are there any similarities between the treatment of German Americans during WWI and the treatment of Islamic Americans and Arab Americans after 9/11? Yes, there are similarities between the treatment of German Americans during WWI and the treatment of Islamic Americans and Arab Americans after 9/11. One way was the propaganda used to persuade the country to believe that Germans and Arabs are the enemy of the world and must be fought in order to save the world. The government can take actions in
off and calling them "ragheads." Congregants at Gurdwara Sahib in Fresno had racist graffiti spray painted on their temple. However, "With the passage of time, people have become informed about Sikhs, and the situation has much improved," says Amrik Singh Virk, temple secretary at the Sikh Center of the Pacific Coast in Selma. (Orozco) Unfortunately this change took three years in the Fresno community for the public to finally realize not all Sikhs are terrorists. Although the racial tension has eased
Racism, it is defined as the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races (Oxford Dictionary, n.d.). In layman’s term, it is an idea wherein one group treats another in a negative way leading to the outcasting of one form to another. One of the major basis of racism is the physical appearance of a person that trends to be a discrimination in the society
Nowadays the globalization has brought a lot of different cultures together. While people may have used to live in more or less culturally isolated societies, this is no longer a case in the twenty first century. Muslim immigrants became more numerous in the Western world. Especially since the September 11 attacks, lives of Muslim communities living in Western countries have been examined more closely. Many Muslim political leaders have pointed to the existence of Islamophobia, or an irrational fear
September 11, 2001 will be replayed and remembered in the minds of this American generation as one of the greatest tragedies on domestic soil. In one day, the world was dramatically altered; but in the days that followed, no group of Americans was affected more intensely nor uniquely than Arab-Americans. Once in a Promised Land, the 2007 novel by Laila Halaby, depicts the real world aftermath which assaulted one fictional Arab couple. Halaby's work accurately portrays the circumstances Arab-Americans