North American Culture

Deviance though perpetrated by all races has become most commonly associated with specific ethnic and racial groups In North America. The assumption is certain racial and ethnic groups, particularly non-white minorities, are more prone to actively participate in various forms of social deviance. Modern conceptions of racial and ethnic differences that attribute to devicine are largely misleading and false. The myth is something that perpetuated out of ethnocentric views of puritan settlers to froms of oppression forced to various forms of deviance rather than innate qualities of an entire race. Situational

The foundation for these prejudicial and stereotypical ideas stem all the way back to when Europeans discovered North America, deeming …show more content…
When the ways of another culture fail to correlate with the dominant culture, usually it is the dominant culture that gets regarded at higher esteem. For example, many people from Latin culture view cock fighting as an acceptable activity. In the various places Latin culture has integrated within the United States, the praise for the positive aspect of foreign culture is overshadowed by the criticisms. Family is seen as an integral part of Latin culture, yet more focus is put on things like cock fighting because it goes against the taboo of animal cruelty in the United States. Rather than trying to understand why the culture participates in such activates, people choose instead to apply stigma to the culture and in turn all of the people associated with the culture become stigmatized as well. There is a fair amount of ignorance present when condemning people of Latin culture for this, especially considering the long history that the activity has within the culture. The longer traditions are passed down, the more likely future generations are going to see it as something normal, rather than abnormal. Generations were bon into a culture where it wasn’t seen as negative to support cock fighting. This is just and example of how the constructionist approach has lead to unfair persecution of others …show more content…
Even after the civil rights movement many non-whites were still discriminated against and treated as second-class citizens throughout the United States and Canada. Toda there more active awareness and push for social equality, yet the myths perpetuated by the oppressions of minorities is still present in the national conscious. “In the United States one of every three African American children live in poverty and one of every four Latino children live in poverty – two times higher than the rate for white children” (reference). This discrepancy wasn’t created out of . kack of