Critical Analysis

Critical Analysis

This paper highlights the facts that have been discussed in the study 'Korean Americans vs. African Americans: Conflicts and Construction'. The book discusses the aspect of minority in relation to the Korean Americans and the conflicts that they were involved in. Therefore, this on analyzing the facts presented in this study in a critical manner.

Discrimination is one of the most urgent problems of modern American society. It represents a restriction of certain rights on the basis of characteristics that are objectively not affecting its ability to enforce these rights. In domestic humanitarian studies as potentially discriminatory features are more likely to investigate racial and ethnic origin, gender, religious beliefs. Accordingly, the most fully described gender, racial, ethnic and religious discrimination. Considerably less attention is paid to other forms of discrimination, particularly discrimination based on age, although, according to sociologists, the prevalence of age discrimination is not inferior to the above, both in America and in Western Europe and the U.S., showing up in various spheres of human interaction - family, professional, educational, health and social services, etc.

The phenomenon of age discrimination came to the attention of sociologists and psychologists recently - in 1950-60-xx GG. In 1969, an American sociologist R. N. Butler proposed to describe the concept of age discrimination to use ageism, by analogy with racism and sexism. Since age discrimination is actively studied in Western sociology and social psychology in the context of the age interaction. Domestic researchers have paid attention to the phenomenon of age discrimination only in recent years, despite the fact that in American social psychology has accumulated rich empirical material describing the phenomenology of the age relations. However, in the way of summarizing this material there are a number of significant challenges. The first difficulty is that researchers have different meanings to the concept of age (level of mental development, personal maturity, life experience, at least - in place of the individual age-hierarchical structure of a community), which often makes their results comparable.

Most Americans over the past several decades have consistently supported the idea of social, racial and gender equality. That support has been reflected in actions taken by the federal government to boost income levels of minorities and remove racial barriers as part of an effort to close longstanding gaps between whites and minorities. In recent years, however, the decades-old social compact under which the majority of Americans backed and accepted proactive government measures to increase Korean minority in America participation in the economy and society overall has frayed considerably.

The main focus of debate today is government-run affirmative-action programs, which are defined as "active efforts to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of Korean minority in America groups". Government agencies implement affirmative action through programs or policies designed to aid the advancement of minorities. One such policy, followed by several agencies, requires that a certain percentage of contracts be given to the Korean minorities. Examples of affirmative action are also found in the private sector, such as ...