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Effects of Powerlessness in the Community

Introduction
Overview
Oppression is an exercise of domination over the powerless and vulnerable people and to the
physical environment by the powerful and most dominant group. Most of the cases this limits the
freedom of the oppressed group that usually lead to injustices. This is societal rules that turned
out as a restrictive structure of powerful forces where the group is immobilized and reducing the
category of the powerless people in the society as human. The kind of treatment the powerless
people usually receive is dehumanizing in manner. These oppressive forces try to stop the people
from developing themselves to be able to have a continuous control over them and exploit the
oppressed ones. The method used in this work is by gathering relevant data from the reliable
journalistic articles examining and describing the different framework of oppression and its
negative impact on the structure of the society.

Thesis
This paper aims to provide a systematic literature review of the effects of powerlessness and
exploitation in the community. Various analyses from reliable researches will be included in the
discourse about the experiences of the oppressed people from the dominant group that develops
grievances thus leads to uprisings. Furthermore, it also reveals in this study why some of the
oppressed group remains quiet and this quietness should not be treated as consent to the

oppression but this can be a form of how the powerless group will act on the grievances against
the oppressing industry. In addition to this, insights on the implication of oppression in the
environment will also be included in the discourse. In-depth analysis of the gathered data will be
presented to enable the readers to have a wider understanding of the interlocking oppressions
experienced by the powerless people and its impact to the environment and how this can be
resolved.

Nature of the Issue
Power is a human need that enables the person or individual to control the outcomes that
concern the environment and their own self. And this compassion for humanity is disrupted and
burdened by powerlessness which is linked to deprivation, lowliness, lack of the ability of the
people to feel, and believe that their human traits are lesser compared to the dominant group of
people (Yang et.al, 2015). It has revealed in the study of self-dehumanizing that those who
belong to the lower echelon in the society perceive themselves as lower and less human than the
people who are in the higher level positions (Yang et.al, 2015).
Power oftentimes, lead to oppressive behavior that can be animalistic as well as immoral in
treating others and giving way to exploitations that are facilitated due to lack of education and
privation of access to meaningful kind of living. Power as oppression according to Iris Marion
Young has five faces and these are exploitation, marginalization, cultural imperialism,
powerlessness, and violence (Devin, 2009). Violence is the most popular kind of oppression
where it does not need any motivation in the attacks and intended to humiliate, to damage, as
well as to destroy humans and the environment. Cultural imperialism is an oppression that

involves the ruling class culture and it is established as the right norms to follow.
Marginalization is confining the group to a lower status in the society through the exclusion
process.
Powerlessness is the feeling of powerless people dominated by the higher class in the society
who are expected to take orders and not providing them the rights that they deserve (Devin,
2009). Often powerless people are exposed to impertinent manners, do not have the power to
make decisions, and subject to many injustices. This develops the silence’s culture where the
oppressed people to nor discuss the oppression that they experience, some were silenced, and
some do not really have the will o voice out what they feel. This is sometimes wrongly perceived
as giving the consent to the oppressor. The powerless people are being indoctrinated as inferior,
prevented from acquiring knowledge, and suppressing them from expressing their emotions as
well as thoughts. They are dehumanized and forced to be silent and choose not to react to it
(Devin, 2009). Powerlessness paves the way to exploitation where the dominant people are
benefitting from the sweat of the powerless group or environment. It uses capitalism where the
powerful become richer and richer in exploiting both the human and the environmental sources.

Intersectionality Related to Oppression
Intersectionality is understood as one of the types of oppression which are facilitated in
various forms such as classism, xenophobia, racism, and sexism (Freire & Irwin, n.d.). It is a
system of domination over the powerless that is expedited through the distinct standing in the
society which is determined by the oppressors. It is an interconnection with the different kinds of
biases in the institution which Is linked to the variations of oppression as well as a privilege. It

discussed in an article that racism, as well as sexism, are socio-cultural oppressions impacting
colored and minorities’ women where it is determined as factors linked to the discrimination and
the violence (Freire & Irwin, n.d.). Racism is a racial categorization identifying the origins of the
minority people who are either superior people or belongs to the inferior group. Rothenberg
(2004) is cited that according to him this leads to power oppressing as well as the exploitation of
the subgroups according to the color of the skin, mannerisms, culture, and ethnicity (Freire &
Irwin, n.d.). Doob (2013) is also cited that he described sexism as gender-based discrimination
such as believing the superiority of male over other genders (Freire & Irwin, n.d.).
According to the study conducted by Ayon, et.al (2017) discrimination is very rampant
among Latinas experiencing all types of oppression due to their non-dominant identities. These
oppressed women experienced the different faces of oppressive acts every day where being
powerless is revealed as the dominant type facilitated in the oppressive environment. Oppression
experienced is intensified due to the intersecting non-dominant factors that include gender,
language proficiency, ethnicity, documentation status, work status, cultural beliefs, nativity, and
socioeconomic status. A discourse in an article it has analyzed that language has become a factor
for social identities among the domestic helpers where many these people experienced trauma
from physical assaults, exploitation, harassment, sexua...