Discrimination. There are six types of discrimination excluding discrimination known as, nonprejudiced nondiscriminators, nonprejudiced discriminators, prejudiced nondiscriminators, prejudiced discriminators, and dindividual discrimination. I am only goin

Julie Vang

Sociology

There are many people that had felt discriminated in our society. Discrimination just doesn’t happen in one place; it happens in schools, stores, streets, restaurants, buses, and many other places. We live in a culturally diverse society. When a race come face to face with another race, some of the people that get targeted will get discriminated. In our culturally diverse society, discrimination is not the only problem that people have. Each group of people has their own culture that they believe in and gender plays a large role in it.

Many people felt discriminated, it’s not only the group of people that believe a certain culture that felt discriminated. In our society, sometimes there are people that are too stereotypical. An example of it is when an employee at a retail store see a color person that dress up poorly or ghetto, that employee will think that the color person is stealing or doing bad things. Then there is also the people who are disable too that other peoples will discriminate against too. Those who get target against most often are a person of different skin color, disabled people, abnormal people, and religious people. According to Joan Ferrante, discrimination (p 255) is defined as,

“intentional or unintentional unequal treatment of individuals or groups because of attributes unrelated to merit, ability, or past performance – treatment that denies equal opportunities to achieve socially valued goals.” (p 255)

There are six types of discrimination excluding discrimination known as, nonprejudiced nondiscriminators, nonprejudiced discriminators, prejudiced nondiscriminators, prejudiced discriminators, and dindividual discrimination. I am only going to focus on the discrimination theory.

I have been in this situation many times when I shop at different stores. I remember when I was shopping at a retail store called JC Penny in Wisconsin Rapids, WI, I felt discriminated. The day ...

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I have been in this situation many times when I shop at different stores. I remember when I was shopping at a retail store called JC Penny in Wisconsin Rapids, WI, I felt discriminated. The day when I was shopping there, I was dressed in a t-shirt, sweatpants, and carrying a textbook sized bag. When I was shopping around, I didn’t really notice that people were watching me. After awhile when I’ve been walking around and had shopped for about thirty minutes, I’ve noticed that an employee was following me around. I also did notice that most of the employees were all white peoples too. I felt discriminated, but I wasn’t sure if it was because of how I was dressed or because I was Asian. I didn’t even know how to react to it, so I just dropped all the items that I grabbed and left the store. When I got home, I just called the JC Penny store and talked to the manager about it. The reply I got back from them that they won’t do that in the future, so I just left it at that.

In our society, gender roles are based on women being inferior to men. We often see this at schools, occupations, household jobs, and other social places. We also see this in a group of cultural people. Joan Ferrante defined the word gender polarization (p 269) as.

“The organizing of social life around male-female ideals so that people’s sex influences every aspect of their life, including how they dress, the time they get up in morning, what they do before they go to bed at night, the social roles they take on, the things they worry about, and even the ways they express emotion and experience sexual attractions. (p 269)

In the Hmong culture, there are certain roles for both the men and women. If the families are traditional, the men are the more inferior in the family. When I was growing up, I was taught that the women had to wake up early to cook for the family, do household chores, babysit, and other chores for the women. Also at traditional family gathering, the women are usually the ones that are cooking and setting up the table for the meals for the family. When they are done with all those, the men are the ones that eat first and then the women and kids eat afterwards. My families are a traditional family, so I’m a girl, I follow those rules. The men had more power in the family and they also have more freedom.