Title: Five Faces of Oppression by Kristen Harris
Headings: Five Faces of Oppression
Five Faces of Oppression
Outline
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Culture of Silence
Violence
Powerlessness
Marginalization
Cultural Imperialism
Exploitation
Five Faces of Oppression

Content: Most, if not all, violent oppression is the direct result of xenophobia. Powerlessness
Marginalization
Marginalization is the act of relegating or confining a group of people to a lower social standing or outer limit or edge of society; overall, it's a process of exclusion. Often, people are marginalized based upon race. One prominent example is the Aboriginal communities of Australia that were excluded from society and pushed farther and farther away from their homelands as cities grew. In the US, a shamefully large proportion of the population is marginal: elderly people who are fired from their jobs,
young Blacks or Latinos who cannot find their first or second jobs,
many single mothers and their children,
other people involuntarily unemployed,
mentally and physically disabled people, and
American Native Indians on reservations. The idea of powerlessness links to Marx's theory of socialism: some people "have" power while others "have-not". The powerless are dominated by the ruling class and are situated to take orders and rarely have the right to give them.