Government-Mandated Separation and Integration - Ending Personal Congregation Choice Posted on 05/23/2010
The reasons people don't have the skill, having lived in a Capitalist economy all their lives or not, don't excuse the lack of skills, only explains the weakness. Incidental demographic characteristics like race and hair color should never be a government-forced consideration for private employers and even state-operated educational and public-support facilities.
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Group DynamicsPosted on 07/05/2011
Interracial harmony is harmed by generalizations that reinforce the division of us from them, though such division often enhances internal group cohesion. Superficial similarities of a class lets its members more easily refer to and identify other groups’ members. An us against them attitude presents a clear, simplistically defined enemy. When people think of others as belonging to either us or them, the them quickly becomes depersonalized, a faceless group of people who don’t share the world view of those in the us group. Insiders experience we-ness based on similar physical characteristics, language, and religion. Accepting the linguistic and cultural differences of others outside one’s group may cause group disunity.
Within the group of them, however, are factions of even more specialized subgroups with their own political goals and perhaps differing methods of achieving those goals. The cohesiveness of the smaller groups depends on more narrowly defined commonality, such as race, age, sex, and opinions about the value of black and white segregation and integration, for example. Fear of blacks unites groups of whites just as a shared, denigrating attitude about women unites sexist, redneck males who want to maintain their male power hold. People within a specific age range, for instance, support others in the age range because they may inexplicably see themselves and their hopes residing in others of their own age.
Generally, women band together because they feel that if they don’t, no other group will look out for their interests as well as they would. Races more actively promote their own members into positions that allow the race as a group to acquire more rewards. Some special interest, black subgroups encourage newly well off members of the black race to return their profits to the disadvantaged within their race so that the lifestyles of others in the race might, theoretically, be improved. The existence of special interest subgroups, ironically, increases the likelihood that outsiders may make dangerous and inaccurate generalizations about the whole racial group based on the behavior and activities of the subgroups.
We live in a society in which interest groups struggle in conflict with other groups: racial and ethnic groups, religious groups against atheists, unions against employers, men against women, the haves against the have-nots, pro-choicers against anti-choicers, homosexuals against heterosexuals. And every “insurgent group has fought its own fight, largely alone...” (Katz, p. 34). The conflicts are based in each group’s sense that it is “singular, bounded, and independent, and that it must stick up for its rights, privileges, and well-being in the face of an opposing group” (Gergen, p. 63).
Within a larger group, members lose their individual identity and are cloaked in whatever identity the group has. The accomplishments and contributions of individual members may be lumped together and credited to the group when those contributions are communicated outside of the group. Frequently, outsiders may view a group negatively because of the statements or actions of the group’s chair or spokesperson. Vocally opinionated members of groups who have outrageous ideas receive the greatest amount of sensationalist-motivated media attention, though those members and their philosophies may be the remote minority within the group and may even be denounced by members of the larger group. Limited views bring those views to the forefront of awareness, enticing outside observers to form negative opinions of the whole group, generally.
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