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Examples of Segregation
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How can we Stop
Segregation
Teo Nikolic
My Definition
Segregation Itself
Segregation, to explain it simply, is the act of people or animals singling out a minority due to a difference in attributes, behaviors and tendencies.
Leading Question: How can we stop segregation?
TODAY'S
SCHEDULE
Oxford Definition
"The action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart."
Other Definitions
Merriam-Webster Definition
"The separation or isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group by enforced or voluntary residence in a restricted area, by barriers to social intercourse, by separate educational facilities, or by other discriminatory means."
TKAM
Segregation in Literature
In the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" the characters suffer and benefit from the racial Jim Crow laws that segregate people depending on their race. It's a prime example of legalized racial segregation.
Examples
“You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillum here - they got their church, we got our’n. It is our church, ain’t it, Miss Cal?”
Jim Crow Laws
"To Kill a Mockingbird" takes place from 1933 to 1935 in Alabama. At the time racial segregation was common, "Jim Crow Laws" were a legalized act that separated people of color and the prioritized white population. The dominantly white government practically said they don't want part in the lives of minorities and whether or not they live in the same country they don't want to live together.
Calpurnia (a black woman) leads Jem and Scout (white children) to the "coloured" seats to sit with them but she can't sit in the white seats with them.
https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/where-do-children-end-up-sitting-courtroom-46007
Colored water fountains; A Jim Crow Law outside the book.
Minorities were obliged to sit at the back of the bus under Jim Crow Laws.
Media
Proof of segregation in the world.
Segregation in Media
Palestinian Apartheid
Under Israeli rule in east occupied Jerusalem, Israeli troops have committed apartheid against the minority Palestinian population. The troops enforce military suppression of the Palestinians and land and resources are favorably given to Jewish-Israelis. An act very similar to Jim Crow Laws.
Palestine
Apartheid: racial segregation; it has been classified as an act against human rights.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/2/2/israel-opens-apartheid-road-in-occupied-west-bank
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa is known for having a problem with segregation, but it isn't common knowledge how dire it still is. The color of your skin generally determines where in the country you live with wealthy neighborhoods consisting of 82% of white people. The lower and middle class towns generally don't have basic services like water, while only 100 meters away they have enough to fill a river. South Africa is a rare case where the majority are the one's being segregated against.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVH7JewfgJg
Monkeys Segregate
In the wild, chimpanzees and other monkeys separate from one another based on their age, origin and physical features. This is why chimpanzees and orangutangs do not cohabit even if they live in the same area. If anything this should teach us segregation is a primitive act.
Examples in Nature
Personal Experiences
I can not speak about how I experienced segregation, but instead the instances where I saw it in my life when it was directed at others.
Personal Experiences
Mississippi
Mississippi
I lived in Mississippi from 2012 to 2015 and quickly noticed the divide between cultures. In the town I lived in, there was a big population of both African Americans and white Americans. The white people would go to white churches and the black would go to the black ones even though both were baptist churches. There were no laws obliging them to go to either, however people feel safer when they are with their own race, leading to an astonishing 87% of churches serving only one race.
Realizations
Realizations
I was 5 or 6 when I first entered a church in Mississippi. To my then innocent eyes I was confused why people would separate in a place of faith, especially if they both praised the same god in the same way. My mother had to explain that some people didn't want to intercourse socially with other races and what segregation was as a whole. I already had the feeling that black and white people didn't like each other. White and black people weren't friends the teachers had bias towards their own race and interaction between the races was minimal even though they lived in the same town. I felt obliged to socialize more so with white people than black even though my parents were accepting of all people.
Conclusion
From the sources stated and my own experience I showed you, I want to ask again how do you think segregation can be stopped? What precautions can be made to protect minorities and how do we erase the damage Jim Crow Laws has done in places like Mississippi?
Conclusive Thoughts
Thanks for your answers and your attention.