Phychology
An oppressive system can work in different ways to achieve the same outcome, create inequalities of power. At the micro level, the media can play a huge role in how minorities are viewed. For example, for years the media influenced how people viewed slavery. While the abolitionists fought to destroy slavery, those for it used the media to promote slavery as a good thing. The Jim Crow persona depicted black males as drunken, happy buffoons that had no real purpose. Although it started as a stage comedy act, it quickly spread nation-wide and became a character in shows and movies that white people came to assume of black African Americans. The media can provide misleading images of minorities. For example, sixty percent of photographs and video footage covering poverty depict African Americans although only 29% of the African American population are poor. Due to these misrepresentations, citizens usually overestimate the proportion of poor African Americans. Also, Latinos are usually portrayed as criminals. At a locality level, the neighborhood or community can display system of oppression. Surveys display that African Americans prefer to live in racially integrated neighborhoods more than Whites do. In fact, some stud
Acculturation occurs when a member of one culture changes through contact with another culture. Individuals can undergo four strategies to deal with assimilation: separation, assimilation, marginalization, and biculturality. Separation is when the individual identifies with his original culture and interact with the dominant culture in limited ways such as through work. Assimilation is when the individual no longer identify with their original culture and pursue identification with the dominant culture. Marginalization is when the individual do not or cannot identify with either culture. This can occur due to loss of contact with one’s original culture and exclusion from the dominant culture. Biculturality is when the individual identifies with both their original culture and the dominant culture leading to bicultural competence. Possessing a strong cultural identity and strong personal identity is important to achieving bicultural competence. There are six characteristics of bicultural competence. The first is to have sufficient knowledge of both cultures covering values and beliefs, institutions and rituals, and social norms. Having positive attitudes for both cultures and a sense of bicultural efficacy (belief one can live satisfactorily within both cultures) is also important. Three essential behavioral factors are communication competence in the languages of both cultures, having a wide repertoire of social skills in both cultures, and social support from family/friends from both cultures.
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