Shimerda desires equal and just treatment, like everyone else. Later on, when Antonia becomes one of "the hired girls," immigrant women who work for families in Black Hawk, Jim describes the low opinion that the citizens have for these girls. "The daughters of Black Hawk merchants had a confident, unenquiring belief that they were 'refined,' and that the country girls, who 'worked out,' were not" (Cather 128). The "hired girls", who work tirelessly for money to aid their family, are considered beneath the daughters of merchants. These merchants are already wealthy and do not need their daughters to work but by contrast, others have to work as a matter of survival, and are treated unequally. Through Mr. Shimerda's apparent fear of discrimination and the stigma about the hired girls that emerges, a class division is exposed between the rich or otherwise stable families and the poor households who may depend on others. This class division is occupied by classist beliefs that reduce those who are not as fortunate down to beings unworthy of respect, and Cather's use of this sends the message of recognizing forms of prejudice besides racism.
Along with elitism, Cather depicts that sexism was no less prevalent in her time period. By definition, sexism is the discrimination against women under the pretension that they are subordinate to men. Antonia Shimerda, repeatedly encounters sexism as she toils on the farm for her family that immigrated from Bohemia to America. Jim Burden, Antonia's neighbor and narrator of the story, is at odds with her brother, Ambrosch's, decision to allow Antonia to work in the field. "She was too proud of her strength. I knew, too, that Ambrosch put upon her some chores a girl ought not to do, and that the farm-hands around the country joked in a nasty way about it" (Cather 81). Because Antonia works in the field, Jim and the others feel that her personality is unbecoming in contrast to how they believe a woman should behave.
Discrimination at its Worst Affirmative Action is wrong and does not help solve the problems that minorities face. It is wrong is because it's discrimination. It has no place in today's society because what it does detracts from society far outweighs its benefits. In fact most Americans don't even enjoy its presence. ... Why isn't discrimination against whites awful? ...
For the first 15 years of my life I had never really experienced discrimination, nor had I seen it first hand. ... It wasn't until then that I had my first real experience with discrimination. ... After the first incident, not a day went by that I was not called "Lukuah," or "Mollungew," which is the worst possible insults in their culture that could be said. ... However, I also realize that discrimination is not placed on just on ethnic background. ... Hopefully racism and discrimination in all its forms will someday end and the world can be a safe place for all of any race or ...
One of the causes of racial discrimination is superiority. ... The main body of employment discrimination laws is composed of federal and state statutes ("Employment Discrimination" n.pag.). ... Another cause of racial discrimination is stereotyping. ... The elimination of sanctioned discrimination in education has been achieved virtually everywhere ("Education Discrimination" n.pag.). ... The worst bias-motivated hate crimes are perpetrated on individuals and groups of individuals in the United States of America because of their race, particularly towards African Americans ("Hate Crimes" n.pa...
Discrimination is and always will be a prominent issue in life. ... "You can't fight discrimination with discrimination."" 2. ... Discrimination at its Worst Affirmative Action is wrong and does not help solve the problems that minorities face. It is wrong because it is discrimination. It has no place in today's society because it does detract from society and outweighs its benefits....
These are sad figures and the worst is that these figures more or less reflect the situation in the most of the countries all over the world. Lets have a look at Article called " Age and Sex Discrimination in the Workplace". ... In the article "Wal-Mart Workforce Woes" the author tells about Wal-Mart Law suit due to its engagement in company-wide gender discrimination in its practice of promotion, compensation and job assignment. 90 % of the top management positions in the company are held by male workers and on the other hand female workers who are the majority of the workforce in Wal-Mart ...
The story starts by describing its setting. She wonders why the house hadn't been rented for so long and why its prize is so low. ... There is a part when we notice Johns wife is getting worst. ... Men's discrimination against women is clearly shown in this story. ... Now, when everyone sees her as in her worst moment, she is really at her best. ...
The beauty of life and its features, in my opinion, relies specifically in the integration of different civilizations. ... Time moves fast, in the days of wretchedness and stupidity, the power is to be stuck in its ways and unconscious of the correct future for all mankind. ... Police officers are deemed to be enemies of the Afro American people and named the source of our struggles due to their natures of discrimination and racial profiling. Discrimination is and will always be a thing as far as I know it to be. ... I believe this form of discrimination is the worst because it has affected mo...
Gender discrimination, racism, and discrimination towards the disabled and less fortunate have been acknowledged, dealt with, and handled. ... Yes, one might definitely think we live in a time where peaceful equality is at its best. ... Its pathetic! ... Some of the worst criminals in history have been your average looking "boy/girl next-door". ... Its amazing though, even after others have seen this side, how many people still chose to down class us. ...
This act of aggression aggravated the already existent discrimination against the Japanese immigrants in America. ... They had to deal with day-to-day discrimination by the public. ... More than 2,000 Japanese immigrants were "rounded up" from Hawaii and the mainland U.S. before the FBI ended its hunt. ... The United States always claims that we are better then everyone else but when push came to shove, we responded in the worst way. ... The U.S. may be a melting pot, but the history of this country proves that it does not always react well to the diversity of its people. ...
