Introduction
Integrating society in the course of ending separation amongst the races. It is important especially in the United States to prevent discrimination in the country. Integration of the society was longed focused and started by the American Civil Rights Movements. The vital issues for the movements were to fight for equalities in all aspects of life including; Equal educational chances for all, desegregation of the military, and equal treatment of all the citizens. The paper below deliberates on the challenges of having an integrated society.
Main body
The increased diversity of American society has resulted in a difficult subject connecting the educational system, economic wealth, and racial percentages. The issue of an integrated society is a test to society because there is more segregation than five to four decades ago. This is because millions of non-white students are locked out of the educational system. Due to economic constrictions and discriminative policies, many non-white students school up to high school and many do not graduate. The non-white students are uneducated, few attend colleges and universities hence their futures in the economic workforce chances are limited. Lack of education is a source of lack of empowerment to the society thus making the non-white students lack a future in the society.
The case of Ho Win v. San Francisco mentioned the case of racial discrimination as required by the 1983 consent. The parents of the Chinese students in America argued that it had resulted in an increasing trend of racial discrimination. This is because the decree does not allow schools in San Francisco city to register more than 50% of anyone ethnic group. As opposed to its original aim, which was meant to enhance amalgamating and protect the black students the earlier years. This elaborates on the complex challenging issues of trying to integrate society. The clause resulted in the discrimination of Chinese students. This is contrary to the reality because the Chinese community in the District is the largest and compose about 70 percent of the population.
Lack of even distributions of income has led to challenges in unifying an integrated society. The facts are evident in areas with low-income communities where the facilities are inadequate, poor services are offered and government funding is limited to the communities. Schools in poorer regions have unequal treatment with those schools in the rich region. High-income schools have better funding, facilities, trained teachers, and a practical curriculum. In contrast to schools in low-income communities, they have weakened teaching staff, health complications, are prone to crimes, influenced to form gangs, residential fluxes, and lack of educational facilities. It is also apparent that poverty-stricken campuses are prone to a lack of opportunities for college chances and job markets. It is a tough task to integrate a society that experiences differences in income distribution because some are provided with resources and the other half lacks the resources. As a consequence, inequalities and conflicts will arise for example; crimes, gangs are formed to protect ethnic interests and competitions resulting in fights.
Conclusion
Integration in society is a challenge in the 21st century because areas, where desegregation values had manifested themself, are slowly turning to segregation. In areas like California and Texas where desegregation was apparent, segregation is crouching back in the society. This is believed to originate from neglecting programs that are meant to ensure that the rights of each individual are advocated. In California, the most multiracial state in the U.S, segregation is on the rise and evident in how other races are discriminated against. Provision of resources and facilities to the minority groups is hindered. The minority groups live in poor stricken places, students attend segregated schools and thus the policy of providing equal opportunities for all is not adhered to resulting in a challenge.