Most of Americans believe in equality. They think every person person should have an equal opportunity to get an education and a job. They believe everyone ought to have equal chance to get ahead, should be treated equally by the laws and the courts, and have an equal amount of voting power.
Equality of opportunity and of treatment are American idealism but improved considerably over the last several decades. Laws have been passed which make it illegal to discriminate. In many communities, local leaders have organized programmes to help break down insider-outsider felling. Improved communication and travel have brought people into closer contact with each other. Perhaps most importantly. groups suffering from discrimination have used a variety of methods to call attention to unjust situations
From these kinds of efforts have come improvements, but much remains to be done. Sometimes there is unrecognized discrimination. Sometimes there is deliberate encouragement of insider-outsider feelings by those who hope to profit from it. Most often, there is a great deal of insider-outsider feeling left over from earlier times.
This section will help you look at insider-outsider feelings in America today.
No comments:
Post a Comment