Modern discrimination

Another week, another topic. This week our class discussions focused mainly on the injustice because of discrimination in many aspects of society like Kingston's discrimination against women, Alexie's discrimination against minorities, and Thoreau's discrimination against reformers. The world today is filled with these types of discrimination. In many countries, there is still a sense of men superiority. Many important positions in those countries are said to be open to everyone but only the men have the power to run for those positions. Also, reformer are also heavily suppressed by the government. Most notably in China, the Hong Kong Protest has been going on for almost 6 months now and many images and videos have been leaked that show the police conflict with civilians in Hong Kong. Finally, and in my opinion the worse type of discrimination in the world, racial discrimination is present in almost every single country in the world.

Racial discrimination has been used throughout the history of the world to  protect the "racial superiority" of a certain racial group. I think that racial discrimination has evolved from being a physical restriction like the use of slavery into restriction of opportunities. In America for example, statistics have shown that professional jobs such as managers are rarely given to Asian Americans even though Asian Americans make up a large percent of the population here in US. I'm not saying that companies are not hiring Asians on purpose, but I think there is definitely some sort of racial injustice going on there. Take Troy district's board members for example, every single one of them are white. However, Asian Americans make up a quarter of the total population here in Troy which is a large percent in my opinion. There should be some sort of diversity in the school board so every racial group in Troy can have some say in how their kids will be educated, right? I have read countless articles saying that Asian Americans are not getting jobs despite having the same educational background as other races. Even though I do not truly believe these articles, I do agree that Asian Americans have to work harder to get the same jobs as a white person. This is why many of the minority group students in Troy High are working so hard, taking 12 AP classes, getting 1500s on the SAT to break though this uphill battle they are fighting. This lack of diversity in the government can lead to many problems as the minorities are not getting equal representation in the government. 

I am not writing this to critique the American job system specifically, this kind of uphill battle happens everywhere in the world. Such as in China, the people are categorized into a few types: the people who live in the cities, the people who live in small towns, and farmers. When looking for jobs the people who live in cities are most likely to get the jobs , the people who live in small towns have to work very hard for it, and the people who farms can almost never get a decent job in the cities. This is why family members in China often end up getting the same jobs whether it is farming or being a manager in the cities. This causes  the wealth to concentrate in the cities instead of being spread out across the country and is creating many problems and conflicts between people living in different regions of China.

Overall, we can all see that the lack of diversity in the professional or political jobs is leading to many problems in the diverse society that we live in. Starting from our generation, we need to start studying those extra hours and taking those harder classes in order to give equal representation to minorities in the world.