1. WISP Assignment 2China
By: Goh Daryl
Lee Choon Ghee
Ng Kah Ming
Justin Chan
Tan Wei Hong
2. Table of Contents
What was not right with China in 2009?
I. Social inequality along religious and racial lines
II. Prejudices leading to Discrimination
III. Other important social, economic and political factors
What about Present Day Singapore?
What can we do to prevent the imagined future of 2061 from becoming
a reality?
3. What was not right with China in 2009?
4. I. Social inequality along religious and racial lines
By : Goh Daryl
5. Racism Against Black People
it would be horrifying if their son or daughter marry a black
person. Some would even disown them outright.
its difficult getting a job teaching English if you are black. the
perception of people is that only white people are true Americans
or true English people.
If you are black, many people will perceive you as African
This racism is strongly linked to the class divisions and racism
that exists within Chinese society
People of lighter skin looked down upon those of darker skin, who
often could not afford to be anything other than a peasant
farmer
6. Discrimination Against Blacks
This picture was taken from a video of African Chinese mixed blood
living in China.
During her talent show this things was posted on the web
7. Racism Against Minorities Within China
People from Tibet and virtually all Chinese minorities are seen as
backwards
Those from Xinjiang province are often looked down
looked upon as thieves - children are especially vilified, since
they are all looked at as thieves.
And Xinjiang people are often harassed by the cop
In other countries
InCambodia, there has been a strong anti-Vietnamese
sentiment.
Malaysia enforced discriminatory laws limiting access to university
education for Chinese students who are citizens by birth of
Malaysia, and many other laws explicitly favouring Malays remain in
force.
8. Discrimination against Tibetan
According to a report in 2006
In filling a hundred open positions in the civil service, only 2
Tibetan was offered a job
Exams were in Chinese and about Chinese culture and history
Demonstrators felt discriminated for the way the exams were held
and for the fact that most Tibetan students trained at Chinese
universities, promises that they would have the same chances as
ethnic Han Chinese if they had a Chinese education proved to be
false.
9.
Only 13 per cent of all Tibetans possess a college or
university education comparing to 50 per cent of ethnic Han Chinese
even though Tibetans represent the major 52 per cent of the
population.
10. Tibet Students explained that they were only be able to
train because their family had made great sacrifices.
11. Now if their degrees are worthless they lose
everything.
Rough translation of the Context: Our native country China has
excellent service. But when I registered to check in using my
identification card. They said Tibetan cannot stay here
12. Urumqi unrest,
Clash between the Hans and Uyghur.
The Hans thinks that the government is bias
Uyghur are more privileged than the Hans.
13. II. Prejudices leading to Discrimination
By : Lee Choon Ghee
14. Prejudice usually refers to negative judgment of
individuals or groups due to their religion or cultural
believes.
Discrimination is the boycotting of individuals or groups from full
participation in the society due to their religion or cultural
believes.
Prejudice usually leads to biased behaviour which also means
discrimination.
15. Discrimination creates social and economic injustice which
then emphasize prejudices.
Both prejudice and discrimination are negative demonstration of
power and they are closely related.
Instead of holding the people together, prejudice and
discrimination pushes them apart.
16. The New Tolerance
After World War 2, immigration was biased in favour of the
Europeans. Only small number of immigrants from India, Pakistan and
Ceylon was allowed.
Post World War 2 immigrants were better accepted because many were
educated and trained.
Main factor of the new tolerance towards immigrants was the
decrease of intelligent assumptions and social responsibility of
Anglo-Saxon racism. Resulted from a detestation against Hitlers
racism and UKs world power devolution.
17. Swine Flu Incident
Mexico was the first to fall victim to the Swine Flu.
18. There was no alert from World Health Organization therefore
the fatalities persist.
19. Countries taking this opportunity to blame the Mexicans for
the virus and been discriminate.
20. WHO even quoted the virus as Mexican Flu.
Americans against Latino immigration
Latinos was directed because they are the newerimmigrant
groups.
21. Due to the large number of Latinos arriving in America
everyday, the statistic of the country, language and culture are
changing.
22. Latinos are victims of thefts, sexual abuse, violence and
discriminated in work.
23. Often seen as job-snatcher by the local Americans.
Xinjiang Riot
Hans ethnic discrimination against Uyghur has been a source of
conflict in China long before the Xinjiang Riot. Examples, Uyghur
was rejected by all hostels and often chased out from shop or by
security guards.
Government wants to adjust policy to preserve Uyghur's language and
culture but many Han Chinese refuses to support.
This is closely related to The New Tolerance example that I
mentioned earlier. Both are related to prejudice; in terms of race
and nationality, and discrimination; in terms of racism and
different cultural believes.
Both prejudice and discrimination between these 2 side are
interlinked.
24. III. Other important social, economic and political
factors
By : Ng Kah Ming
25. Slaverycame into existence in China,
The main reasons for the growth of slavery were economic
cheap labour force and as a profitable trade good
through slavery were an important factor in the growth of the
shipping industry and a source of surplus wealth for early
industrialism
Slaves worked in households, in mines, and on sugar and cotton
plantations
26. Social factor affecting china economic
Farmers didnt want to farm anymore, because of the lowly paid
harvest
Chinese in china are now more capitalized, self organizing,
demanding
Every Chinese wants to own something, e.g. houses, lands, stocks,
factories and many more.
The Chinese are adapting and experimenting
27. They [the Chinese] are quiet, peaceable, tractable, free
from drunkenness, and they are as industrious as the day is long. A
disorderly Chinaman is rare, and a lazy one does not exist.
* People's Republic of China. "preferential policies" required some
of the top positions in governments be distributed to ethnic
minorities and women. Also, many universities are required by
government to give preferred admissions to ethnic
minorities.
28. Social reasons lead to the control of 1 child per
family
The People's Republic of China was compelled to introduce the
Planned Birth Policy or the One Child Policy due to the ever
growing population of China. China is supposed to be the number one
in world population. The government is trying to control the
population by allowing just one child per family. This has helped
the Chinese population to come under control. This policy has
received many criticisms from the people of China due to its
harshness. Women are forced to abortions and forced to control
their baby's birth. The overpopulation of China caused many
economic problems such as lack of food, water, shelter and other
basic amenities.
29. Economic and Political factors
The rise of 2008 Beijing Olympic games
Chinese society is becoming more robust, diverse, interested, and
capable over time
The case of a migrant named Sun Zhigang is seen by many Chinese as
a seminal event in legal reform and the development of
citizen-rights consciousness.
Police, people controlling the force are corrupted
30. Gender Discrimination
Doctors in have removed a needle from the brain of an 11-year-old
girl which is believed to have been inserted after birth in an
attempted murder by relatives who wanted a boy.
Despite growth in numbers of female scientists and engineers
womencontinues to face discrimination at the workplace,
It notes that there are few women amongst the country's top-ranked
scientists and suggests that gender equality be written into laws
relevant to science.
31. Present Day Singapore
By : Tan Wei Hong
32. Facts
Population ofdifferent races in SingaporeChinese:
75.2%Malays:13.6%Indians: 8.8%Eurasians:2.4%
33. Due to the fact that Singapore is a multi-racial country
thus racial discrimination occurring is almost zero.
Singapores schools educate children since young on the topic
racisms and treating everyone equally.
Singapore discouraged discrimination and laws are implemented to
protect against the various races.
34. Although Chinese are majority in Singapore , Singapore
Chinese recognize themselves as Singaporeans than Chinese.
In order not to stir up any trouble of the race of the president,
presidency is changed every 5 years ,and the race of the upcoming
presidents are in turns of Malay, Eurasian, Indian and
Chinese.
35. Racism in Singapore is of very minuet. but it doesnt mean
that it does not occur.
A Chinese woman was serving food to an Indonesian maid at a
hospital canteen when, midway, she laid the plate aside to serve a
well-dressed gentleman.
Philippine lady executive told me how she would be given the cold
shoulder whenever she wore informal clothes
"dirty, smelly"
This shows that racism is still valid in Singapore but through the
years this has greatly reduced
36. Discrimination Laws implemented
Subsection 3 of the Act describes the types of publication that
have seditious tendency and these includes publication that"promote
feelings of ill-will and hostility between different races or
classes". Singapore takes social cohesion and racial harmony in the
country seriously.
37. Blogger arrested for posting racist online content
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore arrested a man for allegedly
posting racist contenton his blog, police said on Wednesday.The 24
year-old was arrested late on Tuesday for posting materialon his
blog"which may wound the racial feelings of another person", police
said in a statement. The offence carries a maximum prison term of 3
years and a fine.The arrest comes after police received two
complaints about the blog, which has since been removed from the
Internet. In 2005, Singapore charged three bloggers under the
Sedition Act for making racist comments on the Internet.The
government of the ethnically mixed Southeast Asian city-state of
4.6 million is highly sensitive about race and religion and says
strict legislation and regulation of the media is needed to ensure
peace.
Singapore implement such laws to let Singaporean know the
seriousness of such offense.
38. What can we do to prevent the imagined future of 2061 from
becoming a reality?
By: Justin Chan
39. Prevention
Education
In school, students are to understand the way of life of other
religion/race (To lessen the misunderstanding of people of
different races)
Multi-Racial events
Events that are organized to bring people of different races
together (This helps to strengthen the bonds)
Tri-lingo languages
To learn a 3rd language (Helps by forming a common language among
groups as to avoid creating boycotting of people of different
race)
Working Environment
Making the workplace multi racial (Example, comprises of Indians,
Chinese and Malays)
40. Problems/Challenges
Education
People do not see why is it a must to understand the behavior of
other races
Multi-Racial Events
It might turn out to be only people the same group of race that
turn up
Tri-lingo languages
People are not willing to learn another new language
Working Environment
Might not work well together or have cliques only from the same
race
41. Solution
Education
Make it compulsory for students (Example, examination papers for
this subject)
Multi-Racial Events
Benefits like freebies to be given off for participation
Tri-lingo languages
Begin from young (Example, in school, it is compulsory for student
to pick up Chinese on top of their own mother tongue)
MNCs to make it compulsory for employees to pick up Chinese as a
3rd language for more business opportunity (Briefing can be held
within company to notify the employees as there will be
opportunities in the near future or a raise in their salary)
Working Environment
Making it compulsory for people of different races to work in pairs
or group
Organize bonding events for the employees
42. References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_people
http://www.thechinaexpat.com/racism-in-china/(Part A. I)
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=7706&size= ( Part
A. I) (Tibet)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006458(
Part A. II)
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Asia/Story/A1Story20091211-185245.html(Part
A . III)
http://www.friesian.com/discrim.htm(Part A. III)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action (Part A. III)
http://www.scidev.net/en/news/female-scientists-face-discrimination-in-china.html
(Part A. III)
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3045302173.html ( Part A.
III)
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/08/06/china-hans-prejudices-and-discriminations-towards-uyghur/
43.
http://washingtonindependent.com/39823/report-finds-widespread-discrimination-against-latino-immigrants-in-south(Part
A. II)
http://www.latinoopinion.com/category/prejudice-and-discrimination/(Part
A. II)
http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/4/3/0/1/p143015_index.html(Part
A. II)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006458(Part
A. II)
http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/problem/prejdisc.htm (Part
A. II)
http://www.littlespeck.com/content/people/CTrendsPeople-051003.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_(Singapore)
http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-33692520080521