Cultural Oppression and the High-Risk Status of African Americans

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When Heston wrote in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, African Americans were facing a strong cultural oppression from European Americans. As Jerome H. Schiele defines in "African-Americans Cultural Suppression and High Risk Conditions", cultural oppression means "the culture of different cultures and ethnic groups sharing a common geopolitical space When the world view was unjustly verified ". It will happen (803). At the moment, people in America are not African-American culture, but they respect Europe's ideals, religion and culture. Not only are the cultures of African and African Americans restricted by European culture, Americans also believe it is worthless and meaningful. This oppression of culture creates a hierarchy to reconfirm that whites are better than African-Americans. Heston tried to overcome this oppression by assigning and raising unique cultural elements of African Americans.

One of the sustainable and long-term challenges faced by African Americans is cultural oppression. The impact of oppression on African Americans has received much attention, but most of the focus is on political and economic oppression. This is the main cause of social problems faced by African Americans. There is no emphasis on linking political and economic oppression to cultural oppression and cultural oppression as a basis for explaining the high social vulnerability of African Americans. In this paper, cultural oppression is a phenomenon in which three risk factors - (a) cultural barriers, (b) weakness of black collectivism, and (c) spiritual alienation - advance and prosper in African Americans in America It will reveal that it will impair its ability. . These factors are related to the high risk of continuing obstacles that collectively expose African Americans to affirmations and delegates of groups.