实践主题

Do some research on racial discrimination in America and give your comments with proper evidence and reasons.

实践目标

（1）To get further and updated information on the topic we discussed in this unit

（2）To be able to sustain a long speech on a topic

实践任务

（1）Discuss your views with your friends or classmates.

（2）Use proper words and expressions to show your attitude.

实践要求

Write down what has come to your mind during your thinking and discussion, and organize them into a neat essay.

Sample

Many books, songs, and movies have touched on the issue of racial discrimination in America, which witnessed the history of the black’s blood and tears ever since the slave trade. Its aftermath in the modern society can still be keenly felt. The reports on the ill treatment of the black by the white in American have never stopped.

What do you think about this issue? Talk about your opinion with some examples or sound reasoning.

教师解析

Last week, I mainly took a research on the racial discrimination and did a literature review about such the topic. Through the interviews with a black American student Jackie, a white student Socker and an American teacher Dr. Brown, I found that the America’s historical problem of racial discrimination is still a heated topic giving rise to many people’s attention and eyes and is hard to go to the end in the short time. Also, in the literature review did last week, I hypothesized that racial discrimination would continue to exist for a long time in the future and the means of education, making anti-racial discrimination laws, uniting all supports from people and government and creating equal job opportunities can be good and effective tools to terminate the racial discrimination.

Through my interviews and research from other materials, racial discrimination is a long-term historical problem and is not so easy to be killed even in today’s democratic society in the United States. America, as a big immigration country in the world, has many cultures and races, whose ethnic origins and cultural background and features are hard to disappear and be assimilated to American culture in the short time. Thus, it is no wonder that Diaconu (2010) argues in his book Racial Discrimination that the issue of racial discrimination is still an important topical subject today under the condition of the increased migration and movement of people of different ethnic origins and cultural background across the world (p. 58). Racial discrimination has been discussed and studied by many critics for a long time and gave rise to masses of movements in the last century, such as the black civil rights movement. When interviewing with black student Jackie his idea toward the long-term existence of racism, Jackie said he understood its long-term existence and knew that the racial discrimination would not disappear in the short time in the future, but he really hopes the racial discrimination could be terminated and the United States has a really equal society (Jackie, personal conversation, 1 August 2014). However, to be frank, America’s history is a racial discrimination history to some extent because of large and fundamental influences of the whiteness ideology and slavery system before.

Meanwhile, the United States could witness racial discrimination in many aspects in the real life, such as the education, the politics, the salary, the employment, etc. Jackie tells one of his experience meeting the discrimination that he did part-time job in a restaurant, where he got the least salary and awards from his boss (Jackie, personal conversation, 1 August 2014). Indeed, racial discrimination is not so serious compared with that before since the law made to terminate the slavery and ban the racial discrimination in America, but the racial discrimination still does not disappear in many forms. Since Obama became the first black president in America, many people believed that the black people stand up in front of the world in the end and will have few or even no discrimination from then on. However, Jackie said the truth is not like that, although the white Americans become more open to the black people and the discrimination to the black people seem not so serious (Jackie, personal conversation, 1 August 2014). As can be noticed and seen, there are still many differences between the black and the white on the racial and ethnic groups of employment, income and wealth, housing, education, health and other areas.

When interviewing with Dr. Brown, he tells me that there are too many factors resulting in the racial discrimination and its long-term existence, as Rome is not built in one day (Dr. Brown, personal conversation, 2 August 2014). Apart from the historical factors, there are many other factors from the society, politics, culture and religion. In spite of the various factors, some methods can be used to measure and evaluate the size of and the extent of discrimination and thus promote the reduction of the discrimination and win the equal treatments. In addition, Socker does not understand why the racial discrimination could still exist in the United States, because America is the most democratic country and places the human being rights in the high position (Socker, personal conversation, 3 August 2014). I do agree with what he said and I deeply believe in the idea that each race are the same and all are the sons and daughters of Gods, so all the races should deserve winning the equal treatments and respect whether they are the black or the white, the Asians or the Americans.

With weeks of study and the interviews, I see that there are many anti-racial discrimination movements in the United States as well. Solanke (2009) argues that making anti-racial discrimination law is an effective and good way to fight against the racial discrimination (p. 112). Making laws is a good and effective way to fight against the racial discrimination, I think, because it not only has compulsory and permanent features, but also it is the official recognition of the anti-racial discrimination. Apart from the making the laws, I hypothesize that promotion of education and equal job opportunities is effectively beneficial to fight against the racial discrimination before. Dr. Brown agrees with my idea, holding the view that promotion of education can both increase their civilization and quality and provide a good platform to strengthen the communications among different races, and equal job opportunities can solve the problems of survival and decline the conflicts (Dr. Brown, personal conversation, 2 August 2014).

In conclusion, racial discrimination, still a heated topic in the United States, will exist in America for a long time and can be seen in many forms in the daily life, such as at school, at shop or other public occasions. Meanwhile, with the development of society and democracy, the anti-racial discrimination movements sound better and better and more people claim to terminate the discrimination. To fight against the racial discrimination, people can take the way or promotion of education and job equality and making laws to provide more equal treatments.