Racism02
Racism is defined by the Webster Dictionary as the assumption that the characteristics and abilities of an individual are determined by race and that one race is biologically superior to another. Confronted with a problem as complex as racism, we cannot afford to let ourselves be constrained by the boundaries of specific disciplines. Racism is alive and well. The reports of its demise are totally unfounded so that we come to the beginning of the twenty-first century, it remains as our society's major dilemma. There is a lot at stake when dealing with this issue, but that fact is that we cannot brush it aside or ignore it any longer because it is present in everything we do. Canada and the United States are one of the two biggest countries when it comes to ethnic diversities within its boundaries. Immigrants enter these countries by the thousands to better their chances of a good and stable life. The demographic statistics of these countries are rapidly rising. Immigrants are s!tarting to take over and their presence is being felt more and more. Historically, both countries had their respective problems involving other races. When the British settlers first came to Canada, they were confronted with the Native Americans. Their goa
which have been conducted in comparable ways in Canada and the United States. In a Toronto field trial conducted in 1984, researchers found that Whites received three times as many job offers as Blacks. Blacks were five times more likely than Whites to be told that a job had been filled when a subsequent White applicant was invited for an interview. The study provided strong evidence that racial discrimination significantly reduced the labour-market opportunities of Blacks in Toronto. Studies, done in the United States by the Fair Employment Council of Greater Washington, between 1990 and 1992, revealed that Blacks were treated significantly worse than equally qualified Whites twenty four percent of the time, and Latinos were treated worse than Whites twenty two percent of the time. The Urban Institute's Employment and Housing Discrimination Studies (1991) matched equally qualified White and Black testers who applied for the same jobs or visited the same real estate agents. Tw! enty percent of the time, white applicants advanced further in the hiring process than their Black counterpart. In one in eight tests, the White received a job offer when the Black did not. The similarity between the results suggests that discriminatory practices are not widely different in the two countries. Also, the both governments are not doing enough to try to abolish this type of practice. They should encourage affirmative action to address continuing problems of discrimination. Despite the historical differences between race relations in Canada and race relations in the United States, Canadians and Americans are roughly similar in their attitudes and behaviours toward racial minorities. In both countries, the social distance between racial minorities and other groups is diminishing. There is no simple, single explanation, nor is there any simple solution to the problems
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