Fear and Discrimination

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This paper discusses the relationship between the emotion of fear and discrimination. It shows how individuals who confront racial discrimination live in a cultural world that constantly batters at their self-esteem. Unless they are working in their own community, African and ethnic Americans are surrounded by a cultural world with different values and with discrimination. It shows how they are made to feel that they are lesser than others in this hostile environment and incapable of achieving the standards and values of this world. It evaluates how people with low self-esteem have the propensity to produce the emotion of fear and how not only do they possess the fear of mortality, they begin to develop fear and uncertainty about the world they live in. It discusses how it is crucial for authorities, institutions and organizations to confront directly the issue of racial or ethnic discrimination and address the fundamental injustices underlying the problems that are contributing to the tragedy of ethnic violence.

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"While adults experience fear through the depletion of their self-esteem and self-image, young children and people in ethnic neighborhoods experience fear towards concrete situations. The consequences of discrimination that result in economic hardships for ethnic and African American and ethnic families exert a tremendous impact on young children. For young Hispanic children who live in poverty, drive-by shootings, and gangs and drugs top their list of fears. This list reflects their lack of security in a world that have not provided good values and proper standards of behavior (Owen, 1998, p. 490). Although these children do not realize that they suffer from discrimination, their lives are a significant result of the discrimination in society. Their fears of social violence are not unfounded."

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