Martin Luther King Jr once said,” I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character”.Segregation is the shameful or biased treatment of distinctive classifications individual or things, particularly on the grounds of race, age or sex. Discrimination is a taught behavior, it is not something that an individual is born with. Everyone starts out the same until they are taught hate by friends, family, society, and the media. Racial and gender are the biggest forms of discrimination. Women were impotent to vote until the 1920s.African Americans were not able to vote until 1960s.
Racial and gender discrimination has a significant impact on today’s society. People face discrimination are effected financially,educationally, and residentially.Estimates regarding the degree of wage discrimination, depend critically on the factors for which and individual or group controls. The Institute for Women’s Policy Research reported in 2014, female full time workers made only 79 cents for every dollar earned by men, a gender wage gap of 21 percent. With that being said will take 44 years or until 2059 for women to achieve pay equality and it is clear that there is more sexism even though women has come a long way in society from fighting for the right to vote to changing societies outlook on domestic views (Hegewisch 2014). Correspondingly, skin shade studies have found that darker Hispanics and African Americans are paid less than Hispanics and Africans with lighter complexions. Unambiguously, employers hirer employees closer to the causcausion skin complexion this goes way back to a time called slavery, where the “light skin Negros” were considered in house Negros and the darker skin complexion “field Negros”(Hurst 1998)).
Girls around the world are experiencing gender discrimination from the age of just seven years old, with one in ten primary school girls reported being unhappy being a girl. Girls were generally seen as better at soft subjects such as languages, history, art and boys better at sports mathematics and computing (Croso 2012).On the contrary,black students are suspended or expelled at triple the rate of their white peers, according to the U.S. Education Department's 2011-2012 Civil Rights Data Collection, a survey conducted every two years. Five percent of white students were suspended annually, compared with 16 percent of black students, according to the report. Black girls were suspended at a rate of 12 percent far greater than girls of other ethnicities and most categories of boys(Joy 2014).It is clear that African American boys are have a disadvantage in school due to their color of their skin, they are not judged by the content of their character nor girls around the world. Girls around the world are seen as foibles.
Residential segregation is alive and well. Metropolitan residential segregation is associated with an increased risk of poor birth outcomes among black women (Bell, Zimmerman, Almgren, and Mayer & Huebner 2006).Predatory lenders targets certain groups. By concentrating foreclosures in metropolitan areas with largely racial differential in subprime lending, segregation structured the causes of the crisis, as well as the geographic and social distribution of its costs on the basis of race. Segregation therefore racialized and intensified the consequences of the American housing bubble.All things considered, predatory lenders give high interest rates to new homeowners that cannot afford it due to not having assets prior to home closure.
Ultimately, Character is still based in a world where skin color and gender makes all the difference, and for that reason discrimination lives and affects us all in today's world. Discrimination is the power of finely distinguishing. Segregation is a taught conduct, it is not something that you are conceived with. Everybody begins the same until society come into play. Finances, education, and residential are the three main key factors tied with discrimination.
