Prejudice And Discrimination Research Paper
Sociology 210
June 10, 2013 Experiences with Prejudice and Discrimination Discrimination or the unfair treatment of people because of their group membership can be seen in all walks of life. (Brym and Lie pg.176) Within this essay I will talk about my personal experiences with racial discrimination, as well as prejudice. Prejudice is an attitude that judges due to ones social ties with a specific group (pg. 176). Every day life for my family, my husband and two children, can change at the grasp of a pocketbook or the grimace of a face. You may wonder, why? Well my family is interracial. My husband is Black, Irish, and Puerto Rican and I am Cuban and Irish. This has caused multiple types of prejudices. Until recently I would have never guessed that the cause of these beliefs could be explained sociologically. Being brought up by parents whom lives parallel that of Tony and Maria, the two main characters of West Side Story. (see LM 4 video) The idea of racism was never instilled in me. An Irish man and a Cuban woman in the 1950’s stirred …show more content…
176). Five years and one child later, my husband and I had brought our son to the park. When we arrived there was a group of children playing in the sand and naturally my son went over to play with them. Immediately two moms came over and grabbed their children. “NO, NO, NO, we don’t play with kids like that”. Kids like that? How could you be so cruel to a child? Her children were then segregated from my son to the other side of the playground. Needless to say I was utterly floored that someone could treat my child this way. To avoid lowering myself to her perception of us, I expressed my disgust in her behavior by telling her that because our children were present this would not turn out to be the fight it should be. How in 2011 have we not assimilated into one group? (pg.
June 10, 2013 Experiences with Prejudice and Discrimination Discrimination or the unfair treatment of people because of their group membership can be seen in all walks of life. (Brym and Lie pg.176) Within this essay I will talk about my personal experiences with racial discrimination, as well as prejudice. Prejudice is an attitude that judges due to ones social ties with a specific group (pg. 176). Every day life for my family, my husband and two children, can change at the grasp of a pocketbook or the grimace of a face. You may wonder, why? Well my family is interracial. My husband is Black, Irish, and Puerto Rican and I am Cuban and Irish. This has caused multiple types of prejudices. Until recently I would have never guessed that the cause of these beliefs could be explained sociologically. Being brought up by parents whom lives parallel that of Tony and Maria, the two main characters of West Side Story. (see LM 4 video) The idea of racism was never instilled in me. An Irish man and a Cuban woman in the 1950’s stirred …show more content…
176). Five years and one child later, my husband and I had brought our son to the park. When we arrived there was a group of children playing in the sand and naturally my son went over to play with them. Immediately two moms came over and grabbed their children. “NO, NO, NO, we don’t play with kids like that”. Kids like that? How could you be so cruel to a child? Her children were then segregated from my son to the other side of the playground. Needless to say I was utterly floored that someone could treat my child this way. To avoid lowering myself to her perception of us, I expressed my disgust in her behavior by telling her that because our children were present this would not turn out to be the fight it should be. How in 2011 have we not assimilated into one group? (pg.