Prejudice and Racism in Canada Essays -- Sociology Racism Prejudice Es

racialism is a Problem in Canada A few historic period ago in Smalltown, CA a burning cross was move in the lawn of a visible minority family. Although the media seemed shocked at this evident racial attack and portrayed the attackers as a group of abnormal, malformed deviants, I was not surprised. As an Asian educatee who is writing her Sociology honours thesis on visible minorities in Canada, I know on a personal and academic level that racialism in Canada does exist. Although plain racial incidents be not a common occurrence, they do happen. present at shoal, a visible minority student left the school when a car sped past her, while the young men wrong shouted racial slurs. Two weeks ago The school paper promulgated an article about a group of International students who experienced racially motivated discriminatory service at restaurant. Last month I attended a meeting about racial discrimination, and a number of students connect explicit stories about experiencing ra cism in Tinyville. More often, racism is convey in subtle ways, and is not recognized as racism. Although social scientists do not like using the term race since it is a socially constructed category based on inaccurate assumptions about phenotypical and biologic differences between human groups, race still holds social currency since sensed racial differences leads to unequal power, privilege, and social prestige. Ignoring race would mean ignoring the reality of racism. Racism takes forms that include social ostracism, employment discrimination, and racial prejudice. One Mt. A student related experiencing social ostracism and prejudice at Mt.A. People are less leading to get to know me and most people prospect Black people negatively. Yo, whatsup? That stereotypical treat... ...ral nation. Multiculturalism is unfortunately only a wisplike discourse that tokenizes cultures, ignoring the reality of racial conflict. Mary Pipher, discussing sexism, observes that The lip service pay to equality makes the reality of discrimination even more confusing. Although overt forms of racism are rare, covert forms of prejudice and discrimination against visible minorities still exist. Further, racism is not only evident in individuals, but on institutional and national levels. Although it is tempting to ignore racism and deny that it exists, ignoring racism will not make it go away. Source Miedema, Baukje (Bo) and Evangelina Tastsoglou. But Where Are You From in the beginning? Immigrant Women and Integration in the Maritimes. Atlantis 24.2 (Spring/Summer 2000) 82-91. 25 Jan. 2003. http//www.stmarys.ca/academic/arts/sociology/tasto/pubs/atlantis.pdf