How diversity affects police work? Traci Ann Fuchs August 16‚ 2013 SS 310 Cultural Diversity DR. Don Kirk Macon The role of the police is to enforce the law‚ not to question it. This means that the police have been used to do society ’s racial dirty work--to return runaway slaves to their masters and to enforce segregation in the South. We have only to think of Southern sheriffs like "Bull" Connor to remind us of how the white power structure has fought to maintain its privileges. However
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RASCISIM IS BULLYING Do you want to be teased because of your cultural background‚ religion‚ accent or even your skin colour? The truth is Racism is happening everywhere everyday RASCISM IS BULLYING! According to the Macquarie dictionary‚ Racism has two important meanigs.1. Human races have special and different characteristics which determine their particular cultures‚ USA. Involving the idea that one’s own race is better than any other race.2 offensive or even violent behaviour to members of any
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Cultural Comparison Paper There are many cultural differences between the United States and France. Some of these are simply social and others are cultural. Hofstede’s Value Dimensions can be used to highlight the differences between the cultures. Individualism vs collectivism‚ uncertainty avoidance‚ masculinity/femininity‚ power distance‚ and long-term vs short-term orientation are all characteristics that differ between France and the United States. In Communications Between Cultures individualism
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Integrative Intercultural Communication Paper Elie De Jesus COM/360 December 13‚ 2010 Don Case Integrative Intercultural Communication Paper “Health is a universal human aspiration and a basic human need. The development of society‚ rich or poor‚ can be judged by the quality of its population’s health. How fairly health is distributed across the social spectrum‚ and the degree of protection provided from disadvantage due to ill-health. Health equity is central to this premise
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Cultural Analysis Paper No matter how hard we try‚ or how much we study‚ it is pretty much impossible to become an expert on all the world’s cultures. It is possible however‚ to be enlightened on a few cultures through some effort and understanding. That is just what we did‚ through interviewing three people who were raised in cultures different from ours. The following are results from what we learned about different cultural dimensions. GENDER EGALITARIANISM Gender egalitarianism‚ as defined
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Introduction This paper is to discuss my experience on a trip to Orlando‚ what I saw and what value those experience had for me as an expression of 21st century culture in this country. Some connections discovered between the event and different topics we have been reviewing on this course will also be discussed. Cultural Event As a great fan of visual arts of any kinds with special interest in sculpture and figurative art painting‚ I visited a place called “Holy Land Experience” in Orlando‚
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Cultural and Disease Paper While there are many endocrine diseases‚ the most common one in the United States is diabetes (Erika Gebel‚ 2010). The prevalence of endocrine diabetes is extremely high among the Arab people. There are many factor that make the Arab population vulnerable to diabetes and other endocrine disorders. Social and cultural influences also influence the development and treatment of many disease within the Arab and Islamic world. Community-based culturally sensitive intervention
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Cultural Comparisons Paper #1 I decided to research Saudi Arabia because Saudi Arabia has been in the news a lot lately and I wanted to have a better understanding of the culture. There are a lot of stereotypes associated with Saudi Arabia and the Islam religion and I think that the best way to overlook these stereotypes is to learn more about the culture and gain an insider’s perspective. It is all too easy to judge a culture from the outside‚ but by becoming educated on the culture it may be
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Diversity Affects Communication Paper Jermaine Smith Introduction to Communication / COM/100 Ms. Kristine O’Hare University of Phoenix Cultural diversity is having a group made up of people from various ethnicities‚ backgrounds‚ religions‚ etc. Having an appreciation of diversity is extremely important and essential for effective communication. For example‚ if you
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WORFORCE DIVERSITY Eric Hernandez National University Introduction “It’s hard to define what diversity is because everyone has an opinion.” - Goldman Sachs diversity ad‚ 2000. People are different‚ that’s a fact. We live in a diverse world‚ filled with people of different cultures‚ nationalities‚ backgrounds and sex. The purpose of this paper is just to give a brief explanation on the importance diversity in the workplace‚ its advantages and why companies need to embrace it
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