Racism happens everywhere we go. As much as we want it to stop, racism will always be here, because that is how society works. So we asked ourselves, do people's assumptions based on your race, ethnicity, and nationality contribute conflicts in our school? Racism is, opinions, assumptions, or actions towards a person/group based on the beliefs of their race. It involves making negative comments or jokes about a specific group, calling people racist terms, and physically bullying people because of their race. The four races we are using and the ones we think are targeted the most are Black, Mexican, White and Asian. Any and every race have their own stereotypes such as: Muslims are terrorists, Blacks love fried chicken, Whites drink Starbucks, Asians eat dogs, etc. For our project, we want to figure out if racism causes conflict in our school. (Burton Middle School). When children go to school and are picked on because of their race, most likely they become afraid of going to school, have trouble concentrating in class, stay away from school, feel anxious and unhappy, and etc. This doesn’t just affect the child's education, but violence could be brought into this. Our purpose of this project is to help prevent racism at school. Based on research, people’s assumptions and stereotypes are based on what they see around us. Here is an example: because you see mostly Asians being in honor classes, getting high paid jobs, having a very successful life, people assume that they are the smartest. From people’s thoughts, they said that if we were comparing which race was the smartest, they say Asians, Jews, Whites, Blacks, and last, Mexicans. Middle school is where you start to be put into classes based on your knowledge. This is where people start the rude comments based on your race. We found at https://www.caloriecount.com/forums/the-lounge/thoughts-asian-people it showed many people complaining and arguing about how racism is affecting their everyday life and how it needs to be addressed. Even though this wasn’t in our school, we found that everyday people were commenting how they felt and this gave us a better idea of what to expect and more details to add to our presentation. We have also found some research about African American stereotypes and other information.
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Everyone knows race is a biological category, but socially everyone seems to put themselves in their own category. Many different things are said about African Americans such as, black kids from K-12 are far more likely to be suspended than white children. Black students make up almost 40% of all school expulsions and more than two thirds of students referred to police from schools are mostly black. According to the U.S News on racism, African American children are 18 times sentenced than white children. These kind of things said, show that many assumptions are made about Blacks. This information was found on http://alltogethernow.org.au/news/racism-disrupts-student-education/ which helped give a better understanding of how black people are treated and how many races feel. The second race we are focusing on is whites. Many racial stereotypes come with being white and from researching we found many racist comments. For example, whites are the cause to all of the racism and they ruined this country. White people don’t know how to be quiet, they are snoops who get into everything and they like Starbucks. Over the years, many students and doctors tried to survey how much racism truly goes on and how many people admit to racism, the results shown that around two-seventh of the population admits to racism and the others didn’t admit to anything. This information was found at http://www.diversityweb.org/digest/w98/research2.html Our last group that we are focusing on is the Mexican category. Most people know that Mexicans like beans and rice and they are dumb. We found on http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/mexican.htm it explains how everybody takes Mexicans for granite and how every Mexican crossed the border and came with drugs. A research study shows that 87.3 percent of people from Burton Middle heard about Mexican stereotypes and don’t do anything about it. Others just take the racism and ignore it because it can simply be taken as a joke while at other times, racism is taken seriously and
Everyone knows race is a biological category, but socially everyone seems to put themselves in their own category. Many different things are said about African Americans such as, black kids from K-12 are far more likely to be suspended than white children. Black students make up almost 40% of all school expulsions and more than two thirds of students referred to police from schools are mostly black. According to the U.S News on racism, African American children are 18 times sentenced than white children. These kind of things said, show that many assumptions are made about Blacks. This information was found on http://alltogethernow.org.au/news/racism-disrupts-student-education/ which helped give a better understanding of how black people are treated and how many races feel. The second race we are focusing on is whites. Many racial stereotypes come with being white and from researching we found many racist comments. For example, whites are the cause to all of the racism and they ruined this country. White people don’t know how to be quiet, they are snoops who get into everything and they like Starbucks. Over the years, many students and doctors tried to survey how much racism truly goes on and how many people admit to racism, the results shown that around two-seventh of the population admits to racism and the others didn’t admit to anything. This information was found at http://www.diversityweb.org/digest/w98/research2.html Our last group that we are focusing on is the Mexican category. Most people know that Mexicans like beans and rice and they are dumb. We found on http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/mexican.htm it explains how everybody takes Mexicans for granite and how every Mexican crossed the border and came with drugs. A research study shows that 87.3 percent of people from Burton Middle heard about Mexican stereotypes and don’t do anything about it. Others just take the racism and ignore it because it can simply be taken as a joke while at other times, racism is taken seriously and