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Cultural discrimination
Cultural discrimination has been a serious problem running in our society for many years, and has had extreme situations and cases come out of it. Through american history, the discrimination against colored people has been extremely evident and impactful to the way colored people are seen in the current american society.
Because so many people are discriminated on something that they cannot change, they decide to come to extreme terms just in hopes of changing their physical body. This has had a negative impact on their lives as some decide to bleach themselves, drink bleach, undergo surgery etc.
Given the fact that one’s appearance is extremely difficult or impossible to change, they live in constant depression feeling sorry for themselves as they’re not what other people want and they’re not visually desirable to others or that their stereotype has given them many unnecessary and unfair struggles in life. This has lead several of them to take their own life in response to the harshness of society.
In terms of the LGBTQ community, pop culture has taken a rather positive turn towards the matter. People have began to embrace the LGBTQ ideology and the people of that nature. But there are still people who are made fun of because of these reasons. People are still heavily discriminated and stereotypes which makes people feel trapped in a situation where they couldn’t change anything.
This is definitely one of the few significant reasons as to why so many people commit suicide.
Social Media and Bullying
Social Media does has a significant impact on the suicidal rates. As seen by the development of technology and comparing it the amount of people committing suicide in response to being heavily cyber bullied, the invisible barrier that protects the attacker have encouraged many to cyber bully while the victims remain helpless.
The “harmfulness” of the internet is becoming more and more severe as people begin to find new ways for hurting others without being direct and making an easy escape. This is evident through the vast range of teenagers who have taken their lives because of cyber bullying and physical bullying. Because not much could be done regarding the internet’s freedom of speech many more are getting hurt. Given the fact that teenagers are so reliant to the internet and are somewhat emotionally unstable, not completely mature enough to handle their emotions, and reluctant to share their feelings many of these victims take their live out of no where (in the perspective of their surrounding peers) thus giving their surrounding peers no chance to make a change, help them or change their mind.
This problem is beginning to become more of an emotional damage than physical damage. As bullies who tend to physically beat victims up find a way to hurt them without getting any physical consequence (i.e. other people fighting back, detention, suspension, being expelled etc.)
The United States is known to be in extreme debt of China and this has resulted in a serious lack of jobs. Because the job openings are so limited the competition is generally increasing. Because this is increasingly becoming more and more competitive, people are beginning to feel extremely stressed. People are loosing sleeping while working jobs most of the day with minimum wage pay.
This is becoming an increasingly difficult lifestyle given the relatively high living standards in New York. People aren’t able to sustain themselves and when they aren’t able to make the money they spent on college many generally come to rather extreme terms with life.
Economy
Students in the US are also struggling to find a direction and are beginning to become more na more competitive. It is less competitive compared to Hong Kong as the difference in education between private and public schools isn’t as big. This then causes there to be a large variety of different problems as there would be a huge social hierarchy between those who are wealthy and those who are less fortunate. People who then be bullied etc.
The competitiveness of education is still existent but more people begin to worry about other things instead of education such as their social life, what to do in their free time etc. Many people are forced to quit school and help out in the families because of financial difficulties
Inflation has been increasingly becoming a problem. Students who come out of university as struggling to find jobs. Despite the fact that they have been to university and graduated with a degree, jobs are beginning to become more demanding. Students often struggle to find jobs or make a living because the living standards are so high. People with a good education and decent academic achievement are being neglected as the demands and requirements for a job are increasing gradually.
The variety of majors that have come out of university to find that there are no jobs for them are impeccably large. The unemployment rate in the US has become more and more severe as its population density increases. There was an incident where a MIT graduate was stuck washing dishes because he was missing job experience.
Cultrual Discrimination Statistics
African-Americans comprise only 13% of the U.S. population and 14% of the monthly drug users, but are 37% of the people arrested for drug-related offenses in America.
Studies show that police are more likely to pull over and frisk blacks or Latinos than whites. In New York City, 80% of the stops made were blacks and Latinos, and 85% of those people were frisked, compared to a mere 8% of white people stopped.
After being arrested, African-Americans are 33% more likely than whites to be detained while facing a felony trial in New York.
In 2010, the U.S. Sentencing Commission reported that African Americans receive 10% longer sentences than whites through the federal system for the same crimes.
In 2009 African-Americans are 21% more likely than whites to receive mandatory minimum sentences and 20% more likely to be sentenced to prison than white drug defendants.
In a 2009 report, 2/3 of the criminals receiving life sentences were non-whites. In New York, it is 83%.
African Americans make up 57% of the people in state prisons for drug offenses.
The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics concluded that an African American male born in 2001 has a 32% chance of going to jail in his lifetime, while a Latino male has a 17% chance, and a white male only has a 6% chance.
In 2012, 51% of Americans expressed anti-black sentiments in a poll; a 3% increase from 2008.
A survey in 2011 revealed that 52% of non-Hispanic whites expressed anti-Hispanic attitudes.
Reports show that nearly 50% of Americans under 18 are minorities. The trend projects a reversal in the population where by 2030, the majority of people under 18 will be of color, and by 2042 nonwhites will be the majority of the U.S. population.
A problem with the wealth gap between races is caused because the wealth the whites gained from slavery still remains to be passed down generation by generation creating what we know now as the wealth gaps and the stereotypes of race.
“Millions of African American and Latino young people in the United States don’t get an education equal to that of most whites, partly because the urban schools they go to don’t have as much money as the schools in the white suburbs. This is because the country has decided that much of the money for schools should come from local property taxes. So in communities where the houses and businesses are less expensive, the schools don’t get enough money to provide a high quality education. This is unfair. This is institutional racism. If we financed schools differently every student, regardless of his or her "race", could go to a high quality school that was the equal of the schools other students attend.”
"A young Latino man I know has been stopped by the police many times while he was driving his car, when he had done nothing to break the law. They stopped him for apparently no reason and asked to check his license and registration and looked inside his car. I’m a white man. I’ve been driving for far more years than he has and have never been stopped under those circumstances." Studies across the country have shown that “African Americans were two to three times more likely to be pulled over and searched [while driving], yet no more likely to be engaged in any criminal activity than white Americans.” (The Covenant, 2006)