PIGS (Polish, Italian, Greek, Slavics)

[SwordandCompass]

DEFINITIONS AND OVERVIEW OF PREJUDICE & DISCRIMINATION
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/soc/355lect01.htm

OVERVIEW OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND RELATED TERMS* <~ read
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/soc/355lect02.htm

A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF DISCRIMINATION LAW
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/soc/355lect03.htm

AGENCY RACISM, AGENCY OVERSIGHT, AND REGULATION OF DISCRIMINATION
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/soc/355lect04.htm

HATE CRIMES AND THEIR ENFORCEMENT OR LACK THEREOF
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/soc/355lect05.htm

SOCIAL CLASS, CLASS & COMMUNITY ANALYSIS
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/soc/355lect06.htm


Understanding Discrimination against Gays & Lesbians
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/soc/355lect07.htm

Understanding Discrimination against Immigrants
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/soc/355lect08.htm


ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND ITS CONTROL
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/soc/355lect09.htm


UNDERSTANDING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ASIAN-AMERICANS
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/soc/355lect10.htm

UNDERSTANDING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICANS
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/soc/355lect11.htm


UNDERSTANDING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND NATIVE AMERICANS
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/soc/355lect12.htm

UNDERSTANDING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST HISPANIC/LATINO AMERICANS
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/soc/355lect13.htm

Discrimination against Arab Americans and Other Middle Eastern Groups
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/soc/355lect14.htm


AGEISM AND AGE DISCRIMINATION
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/soc/355lect15.htm

[SwordandCompass]

ANTHROPOLOGICAL CRIMINOLOGY <~ read
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/301/301lect03.htm


MENTAL DEFICIENCY AND CRIME <~ read
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/301/301lect04.htm


POVERTY, INEQUALITY, AND CRIME
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/301/301lect07.htm


Yea just go and read

[SwordandCompass]

faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/301/301lect04.htm
A Focus on the American Eugenics Movement (1907-1939)
     <br>The main years for the American Eugenics Movement lasted from 1907-1939.  Eugenics (a word meaning "good in birth") is the name for attempts at purifying the human race by the elimination or sterilization of "unfit" human beings.  A majority of states (31) passed mandatory sterilization laws (known by a variety of names; miscegenation laws; sexual psychopath laws, registration laws, etc.).  Indiana was the first state to legalize forced sterilization in 1907, but most of the other states followed after Oliver Wendell Holmes' famous proclamation in the Buck v. Bell case of 1927 which involved Virginia's law (below).  These laws essentially rounded up welfare mothers, the mentally retarded, the mentally ill, the insane, epileptics, sex perverts, and moral degenerates.  They were taken to hospitals and given euthanasia (mercy killing) if they were too bad off, but most people, against their will or talked into it (by genetic counselors), were sterilized by castration, vasectomy, or hysterectomy.  When Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, he claimed his idea of genocide against the Jews was inspired by the American Eugenics Movement, but other than the Holocaust, Hitler got away with killing 250,000 mentally disabled Germans between 1939 and 1945 with no complaints.  Most people who administered the sterilization laws in America were WASPS (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) who also had a distaste for foreigners, so the Johnson-Lodge Immigration Act was passed in 1924 to formalize the practice of sterilizing vast numbers of immigrants who were uncharitably called PIGS (Polish, Italian, Greek, and Slavic) or CIA (Catholic Irish Alcoholics).  A number of Blacks were also caught up in sterilization campaigns, but the Irish suffered the most in terms of the numbers affected (estimates range from 150,000-750,000+ sterilized).  Records were poorly kept, and some estimates of the numbers are much lower, for example, such as Black's (2003) estimates of 6,000 by 1927, 36,000 by 1940, and 70,000 by 1970.  Activities past 1939 were funded by Planned Parenthood and the birth control movement started by Margaret Sanger, an early American feminist. In the 1990s and beyond, scientists sometimes refer to the legacy of these ideas as euthanasia, the new eugenics, "newgenics," or transhumanism (Dowbiggin 2003).   


Once again the ENGLISH suck!

[eufrenio]

Funny, the joke among EU bureaucrats is to refer to Southern European members as PIGS (Portugal Italy Greece Spain)! ;D

[buddyrydell]

Yes, these groups along with the Irish Catholics are what are known as "white ethnics" here in the U.S. Though I have one question. Why are Poles separated from other Slavs? Poles are actually Slavs.

The term WASP has evolved to encompass a variety of mostly Protestant northwestern European ethnicities (originally just English but now also Dutch, Scandinavian, German, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, Welsh, and French) who have historically held the most power in American society. All of America's presidents up to George W. Bush today, with the exception of John F. Kennedy (Irish Catholic), were WASPs.

These presidents have tended to come from the South or New England, areas long populated by traditional WASPs, although New England has a large Irish-American Catholic presence in Massachusetts whereas Connecticut and Rhode Island have large numbers of Italian-Americans.

[Josh]

buddyrydell said:

The term WASP has evolved to encompass a variety of mostly Protestant northwestern European ethnicities (originally just English but now also Dutch, Scandinavian, German, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, Welsh, and French)

Not to seem nitpicky, but the French aren't mostly Protestants.

[Faelcind]

This was also done extensively to native americans.

[buddyrydell]

Josh said:

Not to seem nitpicky, but the French aren't mostly Protestants.

Yeah you're right, French people are predominantly Catholic but they've been in America for so long that they're basically completely absorbed into the other more numerous Protestant ethnicities, with the exception of Louisiana I guess. However, many of the French immigrants were in fact French Huguenots, who were Protestant.

[murphee]

American with French Huguenot, Irish, English and Native American ancestry

[buddyrydell]

murphee said:

American with French Huguenot, Irish, English and Native American ancestry

He seems to have a more or less British/Irish appearance. With his heritage I'd guess he was from...the South?

[murphee]

Yes, he is. He is from Southern Texas.

[k5125]

I don't think greeks are any whiter than Iranians. Some greeks are really friggn dark skinned.

The greek orthodox priests that where the big black robes look middle eastern.

[buddyrydell]

k5125 said:

I don't think greeks are any whiter than Iranians. Some greeks are really friggn dark skinned.

The greek orthodox priests that where the big black robes look middle eastern.

Yeah I've also seen some darker Greeks but the average Greek has dark brown hair, a brunet white or light olive complexion, and brown eyes, though light eyes are not at all uncommon. True black hair and darker complexions are more common among Iranians and other Middle Easterners. Greeks are probably the darkest Europeans on average, though they vary considerably in appearance.