Opression

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Definition

Oppression is done when someone feels power over someone else, and show authority in a mean and cruel way. I most of the cases oppression is caused by personal interest and believes, it does not come from any valid or clear reasons. U Types of oppression

There are several types of oppression, which are:

Social oppression: the mistreatment of one group of people towards another that has different believes, skin colour, sexuality. As an example we have the white people towards the afro american people or the germans (nazis) towards the jews.

Institutionalised oppression: it occurs when the government establish a law that targets a specific group of people, it is easily linked with social oppression but it has a political intervention.

Systematic oppression: it refers to the power that big systems such as the law and police have over regular citizens, this type of oppression can be targeted to a group of people or to an individual.

Internalized oppression: in psychology internalized oppression refers to an individual that belongs to an oppressed group and starts to get an oppressive attitude towards them or start believing in negative social stereotypes. As examples we can see internalized racism, internalizes sexism and others.

Bibliography: En.wikipedia.org (2011). Oppression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [línea] Recuperado de: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppression [Visitada: 13 Sep 2013].