Prejudice and Discrimination in USA
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Title: Prejudice and Discrimination in USA
General Purpose: Informative Speech
Specific Purpose: To Enlighten Listeners on How Discrimination is Increasing Gradually in USA
Thesis: How Psychology has affected the increase in the rate of Discrimination and Prejudice among all States of USA
Introduction
1. Among all the countries in the world, USA is widely known for increased cases of discrimination.
2. Discrimination can be defined as the unfair treatment by people according to their judgment on race, sexual status, gender or age. Several types of unfair treatment make up the whole discrimination idea, where USA seems to be among the top states which are associated with this behavior (Fish, Syed, 2019).
3. Psychology on the other hand suggests and proves that such cases are made and steered by the mindset of an individual, where the learners believe that is a personal choice and decision to act that way to one another.
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Types of Discrimination in USA
1. Age is one of the biggest issues in the country. The elderly people expect more respect from the younger ones as they always feel that they are more experienced in surviving in the country compared to all other citizens (Parker, 2012).
2. Such kind of disagreement brings about hate, where the mature people feel that it’s more efficient for them to isolate themselves from the young generation. According to the knowledge we get from the study of how people behave to one another, psychology tends to take a bigger chance of causing such kind of prejudice.
3. USA is crowded with blacks, who sometimes are made feel that the place is not their original home. Some of the whites in the country think that the black Americans are invaders in their own land, an assumption which is brought about by how their minds let them feel about the fellow citizens (Hadley, Patil, 2009).
4. Activists and politicians have launched several rallies and foundations which help the blacks in fighting for their rights while in their stay at the country.
5. Psychology states that how a person feels about another is literally based on how his or her mind has thought about the individual. Hatred is a mindset feeling thus psychology is somehow involved in cases of discrimination.
6. Most of the people forget the fact that disability is not inability. What comes into most of the minds of USA citizens when they see a physically impaired person is inability to do certain duties or functions properly (Awad, Rackley, 2017).
7. Most of these impaired people are equipped with certain skills which cannot be noticed with discriminative mindsets. It is time we give these individuals chances in most of the activities we do so that they can too feel like complete human beings.
8. Being a visitor in USA is one of the hardest feelings one can ever experience especially when you are not a citizen of the country (Hadley, Patil, 2009). Their culture is quite different from other parts of the world, and the most surprising thing is the citizens will force the new comers to adapt and learn quickly. Nationality is highly considered by the citizens, where most of them are full of questions on the countries where their visitors are from.
Conclusion
Discrimination and prejudice of any type is based on how a person feels about one another. The study of feelings, moods and personal decisions is called psychology, hence linking the study closely with how people treat fellow humans (Parker, 2012).
Discrimination of any case is termed to be a conclusion and decision by the individual towards one another, where the feelings and moods towards this conclusion are steered by psychological state of the mind and brain to be specific. The speech has focused on several kinds of discrimination practices taking place in USA and how the people affected feel about it.
References
Awad, G. H., & Rackley, K. R. (2017). Prejudice and discrimination. The International Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication, 1-9.
Fish, J., & Syed, M. (2019). Racism, discrimination, and prejudice. The encyclopedia of child and adolescent development, 1-12.
Hadley, C., & Patil, C. (2009). Perceived discrimination among three groups of refugees resettled in the USA: associations with language, time in the USA, and continent of origin. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 11(6), 505-512.
Parker, R. (2012). Stigma, prejudice and discrimination in global public health. Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 28(1), 164-169.
