Group Dynamics–Intragroup, Dominant Group, and Marginalization
In every society, the dominant groups are positively privileged. Their favor in society negatively affects minorities. Minorities suffer from negative treatment in terms of wealth, power, political, economic, or social. For instance, dominant groups get the best education while the marginalized nearly get a poor education. This widens the difference between the two communities. Marginalized groups get neglected in society. Since immigrants and refugees are yet to establish themselves in society, they are challenged in the community. According to the example of Aaron, discrimination in society has a lot of impact on society. Immigrants and refugees easily suffer from depression and stress because they have been neglected and the way they are handled in society. Due to a lack of multicultural practices, racial and ethnic differences between blacks and whites were experienced.
The rejection from society due to these racial differences and discrimination has endless negative impacts, like in the Aaron story, one can easily suffer from mental health disease. As mentioned earlier, the distress can lead to persons taking their own life; hence, it is important to exercises knowledge in society to bridge the racial and ethnic differences between communities. To coop easily and adopt the culture in a society, the dominant group should be well trained on how to treat and interact with the refugees, laying aside racial differences. With racism, it would take time for one to adopt because one could place and neglected. Aaron desired to learn cultural practices that could have helped him associate with others, especially when he was an immigrant and in college; thus, he could not feel lonely. Also, cultural practice could have helped him to reunite with his family.