Thursday, September 17, 2009

Education and Sterotyping

Lawyers will take almost any case today. Stereotyping is a problem in today's society. Education and understanding of cultural differences are the solution to this problem.
There are many prejudices in today's society. We want to punish everyone that commits a crime even if they didn't do it, to send a message to everyone. We are a punitive society that treats everyone like children. We have laws for everything almost. People are being crushed by the oppression of government and the legal system. We make new laws every year but never get rid of old ones. There needs to be a balance of eliminating as many old laws as new ones are created. Judges in courts can't make decisions on cases anymore due to too many laws tie their hands. Lawyers want to look good at having high conviction ratio due to politics. The African Americans today have many cultural problems with high drug use, single mothers and 75% of all those in jail are Black or Hispanic. Sterotyping has had a major impact on the legal system. Movies and television show that stereotype ethnic groups have done similiar damage to our perception of ethinc groups in the United States and world wide.
Terrorists in movies are mainly portrayed as Muslim. There are 1 billion Muslims in the world and this is one of many types of stereotyping. It is wrong to do this.
I am glad to hear you got of your situation. We need a 20 moratorium on law schools and business schools. Too many lawyers in this country and not enough technical schooling.

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