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Socioeconomic status and the overall well being health has a correlation.  The lower the SES, the lower one's health is.  People in lower income areas tend to be exposed to more harmful chemicals, have poor health habits, and less access to health care.  All of these add up to poor health, but the people are unable to pay for their healthcare because of their income.  Healthcare is a necessity, but it is seen as a luxury in our society.  Again, the income gap is pushing us further away from each other.  People think they are better than the person next to them just because they make more money, but that is not who we should be.  Money is a materialistic ideal, and human connection is an everlasting feeling that is constantly not appreciated because of the differences people see.

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Income affects so many aspects of social and emotional well being throughout a society.  Income is a materialistic thing that doesn’t heavily affect the quality of life, but what does affect the quality of life as a society is the gaps between the rich and the poor.  These gaps push humans further away from each other and cause us not to want to help each other and be equal.  As said in a few other of my entries, as a nation, we tend to see the differences like differences in affluence in people instead of the similarities.  The quality of life can improve if we make the economic gaps smaller and stop seeing someone as their differences from you, but as someone who is similar to you.

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Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies

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We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.

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Education follows an economic pattern too like family life.  Typically, lower income families are housed in the same area and all attend the same schooling, and it’s proven that education in lower income neighborhoods is not as good as education in wealthier areas.  Also in some cities, there are suburbs of minorities and they obviously aren’t making as much as the white male in that city.  Socioeconomic class puts children a step behind or ahead in education, something they should all be able to maximize, and being a person of minority, is a couple more steps behind.

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In a lower income family, the life is different.  Because they are constantly under financial stress, they are probably not home as much as a middle class family is.   Mental health disorders can arise from the neglect and stress of not being able to pay bills, and people of this income tend to not have much access to healthcare.  After not being able to provide for their family or themselves, an unimaginable amount of mental disorders and stress have arisen, and they can’t do much about them.   Being apart of a lower socioeconomic class tends to lead to family and self problems.

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There are some activist groups out there fighting for people they know nothing about.  For example, an all white religious activist group fighting for LGBTQ rights.  The group of dominance tends to think they are superior and better than the group they’re fighting for.  It’s hard to fight for people you are unfamiliar with.  To start being more effective instead of faithful, people need to become immersed and meet people who are unlike them.  We can become like-minded when we recognize and work through different perspectives, views, gifts, and flaws of each other.  The power of what a group could be like with diversity and different views could be so great but it's successes are unknown because no one does it.

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Race is such a touchy subject that people don’t talk about it to fix it.  Having courage and having the uncomfortable talks will make the difference in the future for the children.  Color blindness is dangerous because the problem is ignored and not being fixed.  Everyone and the quality of life and ideas will be greater with greater diversity because of the different views and perspectives.  Diversity is when we will achieve greatness, but we need to recognize the ability of what we could be with diversity.

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The subject of race can be very touchy. As finance executive Mellody Hobson says, it’s a “conversational third rail.” But, she says, that’s exactly why we need to start talking about it. In this engaging, persuasive talk, Hobson makes the case that speaking openly about race — and particularly about diversity in hiring -- makes for better businesses and a better society.

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Racism occurs from the attitude one race has towards another although a smaller amount of people think discrimination comes from government laws and actions.  Fear of discrimination has influenced decisions on seeking medical care, calling the police when in need, and attending social events.  The fear of doing simple things is a very concerning issue that all has to do with attitude.  Many things have been done to push people further apart and see the differences in each other and not the similarities.  We are so quick to treat someone different who is different than us, but why are we like that?  The attitude is a pre existing issue that’s been around since colonial days, like white privilege, but the circle needs to be broken so people feel welcomed and aren’t scared to get necessary help.

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Majorities in many ethnic, identity and racial groups in America believe that discrimination exists against their own group, across many areas of people's daily lives, according to a poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The poll asked a wide range of questions about where Americans experience discrimination - from the workplace to the doctor's office - and people's perception of it. The groups polled include whites, blacks, Latinos, Asian-Americans, Native Americans and LGBTQ adults.

White Americans are among those who feel their group is discriminated against, with 55 percent saying discrimination exists against whites in the U.S. today.

These results are part of a large national statistically representative survey of 3,453 adults from Jan. 26 to Apr. 9.

We will be releasing the full results of the poll over the next several weeks, starting Tuesday with results from the survey of African-Americans. We will highlight and analyze the particular acts of discrimination that each group experiences.

The African-American results, in 802 adults, provide insight into the historically high levels of discrimination blacks have faced since arriving in America. These experiences happen across a broad range of situations: interacting with police; applying for jobs or seeking promotions; trying to rent an apartment or buy a home; or going to a doctor or health clinic.

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The findings on African-Americans have a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level.

The perceptions of discrimination are not primarily based in actions by institutions, as some might expect. "Most African-Americans believe that discrimination is due to the attitudes of individuals that they interact with," says Robert Blendon, the poll's director and professor of policy and political analysis at the Harvard Chan School. "A smaller share believes it's actually government or institutional policies."

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Fear of discrimination, possibly triggered by past encounters, plays out in different ways. We found that this fear significantly influences people's decisions whether to seek medical care, to call the police when in need, and even whether to drive or attend social events. Nearly one-third (32 percent) of African-Americans polled said they have personally experienced racial discrimination when going to the doctor or a health clinic, with 22 percent avoiding care out of fear of discrimination.

"If someone is avoiding seeking medical care out of fear of discrimination, they're at risk of going undiagnosed for serious conditions," says Dr. Richard Besser, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. "We know that repeated stress from discrimination and racism can actually make some of those conditions more likely in the first place and shorten lives."

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And repeated stress comes from many kinds of discrimination and the fear it engenders. Numerous studies have shown that African-Americans are more likely to be stopped by police compared with other racial groups. In the poll, 60 percent of people told us that they or a family member have been unfairly stopped or mistreated by police because they are black.

That has consequences for them personally and across society - 31 percent of poll respondents say fear of discrimination has led them to avoid calling the police when in need. And 61 percent say police are more likely to use force on a person who is African-American than on a white person in the same situation.

Where people live can make a big difference, too. Our survey found that 64 percent of blacks live in non-majority-black areas. For these people, perceptions of local discrimination, opportunity, police and government and community environment were generally better when compared with majority-black areas, sometimes by wide margins.

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Our poll found substantial numbers of African-Americans who say they have been slurred or have been the target of insensitive or offensive comments or negative assumptions. A story later in our series will explore the split by income and gender in the chart below.

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Persistently higher premature death rates in blacks compared with whites was one of the issues that inspired this poll and series. The most recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that gap at 16 percent, even though it has narrowed since 1999, when death rates for blacks from all causes were 33 percent higher than whites.

Many factors play into the gap, including a considerable drop in crime rates involving African-Americans over that period and improved access to medical care for many people. What we're trying to explore with our "You, Me and Them" series and poll is how the stress-inducing experiences of discrimination in everyday life affect health.

"Over 200 black people die prematurely every single day in America, in part because of racism in society," says David Williams, a professor of public health at the Harvard Chan School who has pioneered work in the field of racial disparities in health care. "This poll helps us see where we need to take action to address the problem."

The poll was conducted in the first quarter of 2017. A final report discussing major highlights from the series will be released in December.

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Poll: Most Americans Think Their Own Group Faces Discrimination

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Majorities in many ethnic, identity and racial groups in America believe that discrimination exists against their own group, across many areas of people's daily lives, according to a poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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In today’s society, people tend to hear one story and only believe that story.  We lack thinking of the other side of the story or letting someone tell their side of the story.  These bad habits cause the mass of people to look down or not care about a group of people and start to see the differences in each other. It’s unfair because they don’t have the ability to tell their story.  Just like in Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie couldn’t tell her side of her marriage with Joe because of the social norms that were in place.  Consequently, the entire town judge her for marrying Tea Cake and running off with him.  The one story through Joe’s eyes was the only story people believed, and that’s what happens in today’s news media.  We perceive certain people and groups as one thing based on what we hear and don't let them tell their story which is unfair and inhumane.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story

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Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

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Blackface is a historical event that is untalked about. It was demeaning to African Americans, and it was an uneasy thought of how inappropriate it was that people laughed about it.  In present day, blackface is starting to make an appearance again mostly from the younger generation who don’t know the history affiliated with it.  The issue with blackface now is ignorance on racial history.  There is a lot of racism history that is not taught because of how bad it was, but it needs to be taught so history doesn't repeat itself as it is right now.

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Blackface: A cultural history of a racist art form

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White privilege has been apart of the American Society since colonial days, and not much has changed since.  Many white people go throughout their lives oblivious to the luxuries they are ensured such as wealth inheritance and not seen as a threatening presence.  It’s also the simple things such as get flesh colored band aids at the store and having a hair care aisle, mostly all for straight hair.  White privilege is knowing and seeing racial inequality in everyday life, but staying silent about it.  Some white people feel attacked and discriminated against when the idea of white privilege is brought up because they don't think they are privileged, but it's strongly backed up that whites are privileged in ways they don't think of. If white privilege were to be erased from our society, white people would have to start recognizing their advantages and speak up against the injustice.