Synthesis Paper Essay. Social Sciences Assignment.

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Technology has played a significant role in influencing racial decisions in the current society. In recent times social media has been endorsed as the primary form of communication; many people have misused the media to discriminate against the minority race in the society racially. Though all people experience racial discrimination, anti-blackness and anti-Asianness have remained the most prevalent form of discrimination today. Though technology has been a significant boost to communication and has invaluable transformative power, modern technology has failed to root out old school racial inequalities and instead aggravate this problem by teaching complexion biasness and prejudice. Several invasive and discriminative internet technologies have evolved that incriminate people regarding their skin color, complexion, hair color and texture, height, and other physical appearance issues. Technology has been both positive and negative to social cohesion and stability. The anti-black and anti-Asianness matters have led to social instability and the emergence of activism for equality due to the conflicts between people with different skin complexion and physical appearance, as the essay expounds.
The difference in complexion does not reflect the difference in the Intelligence Quotient (IQ). Discrimination on the color basis among other physical appearances has been around for hundreds of years. With the advancement in technology and enlightenment of the societies, it could be assumed that these minor issues could perpetually decline. However, online racial hatred has become evident in the heart of internet usage as manifested in social platforms such as multiplayer video game consoles, online chat rooms, and online message boards flooded with harassment, racial intolerance, and hateful language. The modern internet and technological environment indirectly form a basis of race and identity inequalities as dictated by various online platforms and applications used in daily life. Specialized invasive modern technology such as Artificial Intelligence and algorithms are used to establish different people's ethnicity (Noble & Safiya 13). Prejudice is done through facial recognition, mass surveillance, or name identification based on racial discrimination at various social and economic levels of life.
Advancement in technology, especially information and technology, has seen the rise social site that offers people various choices like race, sex orientation, complexion, and religious affiliations, among other features. The approach though not intending to anti-black and anti-Asianness discriminate against people forms a basis of prejudice. There are various mechanisms established by the authorities to curb discrimination among people. In the US, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) uses specialized technology applications that use statistical models to predict crime patterns all over Los Angeles as dictated by historic crime patterns. The data used to establish the criminal activities is obtained from the police and calls made to police to report a crime (Stop, L. A. P. D. "Spying Coalition 16). It is a predictive program; LASER and PredPol have been established...