No Labels

Hello there again! We were assigned to do a presentation on a NGO that we had come up with relating to our topic. We pretended to be recruiting new members, so our presentation had to be as interesting as possible. Below are the details of our own NGO: "NO LABELS NGO" We're going to start off by presenting our group's mission. Our goal is to get more and more people to understand that anyone can be discriminated against. You can be discriminated by your color, your gender, your religion, your political beliefs, your age and so on. Our mission here is to spread awareness. Regardless of the color of our skin, hair or clothes, we are the same on the inside. There's one thing we all have in common: We are all human. We all have flesh and bones. We all bleed red. Our NGO has a Facebook page where you can see different stories about people. You can read and see actual videos for yourself. What we want to achieve is to get you to feel the closeness of discriminat

We would like to start off this post by thanking all the people who participated in our survey. We only got 5 responses so far, however, the diversity of nationalities was impressing and helped us a lot to understand how people from all over the world look at discrimination. Firstly, all the people agreed that the meaning of discrimination is to treat people of another race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, etc. differently, and usually unfairly. We were surprised to find out that no one responded "I don't know", since the youngest respondent was actually 13 years old. It was good to know that young people are aware of the situation. No one has discriminated against anyone and most didn't experience discrimination themselves except for one person who was a foreigner living in Japan. The respondent said that he was searching for an apartment and was not allowed to even look at some properties because he was not Japanese. That proved to us that maybe

Wow, how fast the time goes by. There're only four questions left and these are my answers: Should gay couples be allowed to adopt children? The society worries about gays as parents, but gay parents worry about the impact of society on their children. The prejudices from society can harm these adopted children only because it's still a rarity. However, if gays and lesbians were able to adopt more frequently, and without discrimination, society would be more open about gays as parents. So yes, everyone should be allowed to adopt children no matter what their sexuality is. Allowing homosexual couples to adopt everywhere will have the rights to be parents given back to them, something that should have never been taken away in the first place. Are you born racist or not? Absolutely not. Racism is a learnt behavior. We teach children fear and they mimic our reaction to the fear causing agent. You see a group of black people, so you hold onto your bag a little tighter, and y

Racial differences in school discipline are widely known, and black students across the United States are more than three times likely as their white peers to be suspended or expelled, according to Stanford researchers. A study proves that the stereotype of black students as "troublemakers" lead teachers to want to discipline black students more harshly than white students after two infractions. They are more likely to see the misbehavior as part of a pattern, and to imagine themselves suspending that student in the future. "We see that stereotypes not only can be used to allow people to interpret a specific behavior in isolation, but also stereotypes can heighten our sensitivity to behavioral patterns across time. This pattern sensitivity is especially relevant in the schooling context," said Stanford psychology Professor Jennifer Eberhardt in an interview. Now I have a question for you. Is this considered white privilege? What do you think? Reference

Currently there are an estimated  700,000   transgender   individuals in the U.S., according to a 2011 report by the Williams Institute School of Law at UCLA, and there are likely to be many more who go unreported. California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and the District of Columbia also have laws specifically designed to   protect transgender citizens  from harassment or discrimination, although these protections vary greatly by state.  That still means that in the majority of states, transgender students and adults have no such protections. Much of the court battles so far have centered around the issue of public accomodations policy. According to the Transgender Law Center, "any place that provides goods and services to the general public is considered a public accommodation... Transgender and gender nonconforming people often experience discrimination in their communities

As you can see from the graphics above (I couldn't find one based on race related), discrimination has apparently decreased throughout the years. If you look at the time when we had Martin Luther King Jr. and those of his time, then yes, it has decreased greatly. However, if you're asking about now compared to 20 years ago, I think it's starting to increase in many ways, but also staying the same in other ways. Things are getting better in some ways, such as more people are accepting interracial and homosexual couples, but only because of those things increasing and it being more common. But even then, there are many who haven't accepted the change or what is "common" to see. References:  Who is driving increasing acceptance of gays and lesbians? (2010, August 2). Retrieved July 21, 2017, from https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/08/02/who-is-driving-increasing-acceptance-of-gays-and-lesbians/ Women in the American workforce . (n.d.). Retrieved Jul