Oppression, marginalization and privilege are all examples of how people can be alienated from society. Oppression can be defined as “being disadvantaged or marginalized based on specific aspects of identity” (Stenekes, 2014). The term privilege is very common in today’s vocabulary, but most are familiar with the single term “white privilege”. Privilege can be defined, as “distribution of benefits that are seen as normal therefore not challenged” (Carniol, Ch. 1). In the American, European …show more content…
The first society is kind, flexible, and caring, while the other was mean, strict and cruel. Joining them by assimilation, my group decided to have the cruel society overtake the kind society and force its strict values and beliefs onto the other citizens. The cruel society had morals that were very similar to dictatorship, and used Marshall law on its citizens in order to receive their cooperation. By forcing the societies to merge, the people of the kind society would be discriminated against due to the different beliefs they had prior to the formation. By being discriminated against, the kind society would be looked down upon compared to the original