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In the course race gender and mass media we are going through more specific topics of gender biasness and racism. These days we are not only interpreting how racism is hampering our society and culture but also   looking at how American government is trying to minimize its effects   .                                                                                                                                                     From February 13 onwards till February 22 we go through several topics of race, gender and its relation with media. We interpret, analyze and evaluate   its pros and cons. During this period we watched video called “Legislating morality” and we go through articles like Institutional /Cultural/Linguistic racism. Along with that we discussed about affirmative action.                                                                                                                                  On 20 th February, we discussed about institutional /cultural / linguistic racism.                                                                                                          Every institution in
United States is fully controlled by whites. From central government to local government; from big hospital to clinics; from universities to school whites are leading whole institution and maintaining racism. This is institutional racism.Yes, I agree with this phenomenon of institutional racism, as its truth, and it’s obvious to be so. In
America white people have got privilege of first class citizen. They are encouraged to get good education. They are rich and are elite. So they possess chances to do better in life   and that’s why they are ruling every institution. They are trained to rule others as they have dark history of promoting slavery. On the contrary, other minorities like black have dark history of being slaves.  They are just free to think about themselves from last 100 years only. They have pains and sorrows of being slaves till now. They are far from opportunities to do better in life due to lack of education and proper environment.So it obvious  to have institutional  racism ;as privilege  to develop career; motivation and skills  between  whites  and other minorities  lag far behind  from each other . They are unequal and unbalance too.Institutional racism has brought cultural racism too. Cultural racism is the imposition of racial political culture upon the lives of other culture willingly or not willingly.As culture is a  way of life of  people, cultural racism forces one to follow the culture of powerful  group  or majority ,so that he/she can assimilate in their culture.                                                                                                               I agree with this concept of cultural racism as I feel myself victim of it. After coming here in USA from small mountainous  Hindu kingdom  Nepal, I feel myself  alien  as I am  disconnected   from my culture ,  on the other hand  I have not been able to adopt to new American culture. I am in phase of assimilation to new culture. These days its hard for me too calculate dates and months of
Nepal which are in Bikram Sambat(BS) rather than in AD.I am being used to with AD. Along with that I don’t  know  when festival like  ‘Holy’(festival of color ) falls but I remember  when is valentine day and Christmas.In
Nepal, I never used to call elders by name as it is regarded as disrespectful. But here I am getting used  to calling elders with name, as it way of life here.   So I feel my self victim of cultural racism and I found myself in phase of transition   to new culture.Cultural racism has favored linguistic racism to. As language is part of culture, we are facing linguistic racism too. We can just take example of English, which shows how linguistic racism occurred. When
Britain emerged as the super power of the world by making world its colonies, its power affected the whole world. As English was their language, its force other to speak in English. Consequently culture of speaking English developed world wide and finally  every  people were attracted towards this language  and now every where in the world English is teaches  as compulsory language in schools , colleges and universities . This shows how the influences of power change whole society, community or world. Affirmative action is the set of public policies and initiatives designed to help eliminate past and present decimation bases on race, color, religion, sex one national origin. Main motive towards introducing affirmative action was    to help African American become full citizen   of the
United States. I think plan to implement affirmative action was right initiative to empower black people or minorities to bring them in main stream development by giving them priorities. Along with that I feel that this concept have been misused too.    I personally  feel that it is good to give priority to the equally qualitative people of other  color rather than majority, but again if the same trends continues  of just giving  priority  to color  rather  than qualification . I think it will bring another conflict or revolution.   In name of giving priority to minorities, one cant hurt majority, as some time equally qualified majority representative  may be kick out from  opportunity because of color. In democratic system I think every individual right, qualification views should be equally treated rather than giving priority to majority or minorities.              Legislating morality: affirmative action of burden of history is documentary which revolves around views of people of various post and occupation. It deals with positive and negative aspects of affirmative action.