treatment by police or susceptibility to poverty‚ one’s skin color can determine a whole range of variables in life. Particularly‚ blacks in America face a disproportionate number of social and economic barriers — but the racial problem is not binary. It extends way beyond a white-black disparity‚ affecting Hispanics‚ Arabs and a miscellany of other minorities. Many statistics reveal contrasting dimensions of racism as it exists in the United States today and are a reminder of how far the country needs to
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everyday existing knowledge. Assimilation is slow and gradual process. It takes some time before individuals or groups once dissimilar become similar. For instance‚ the American Indians adopted cultural elements of the Whites with whom they came in contact; but the whites also appropriated certain cultural traits from the Indians. Therefore‚ assimilation has two parts or stages one is the suppression of the parent culture‚ the other is the acquisition of the new culture and its
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hotly debated issue in the US. Police arrest of minorities is a subject that continues to evoke heated debate. It is now widely acknowledged that minorities‚ especially African-Americans‚ are more likely to be arrested for minor offenses than whites. This is a matter of concern‚ not only because it leads to feelings of prejudice‚ but police arrest of minorities also leads to a pattern of racial profiling. This paper discusses police arresting of minorities in the US‚ a topic that has drawn widespread
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However‚ these figures should be treated with caution. It may be simply that more members of minority groups live in urban areas where such stops are likely to take place. Phillips and bowling quote home office research which used CCTV cameras in five urban areas and compared the number of black‚ white and Asian people on the streets with the numbers
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major advances in the fields of medicine and healthcare services over the past years‚ a significant health gap between rich and poor remains. As populations grow‚ so apparently do health disparities. The poor continue to shoulder a particularly disproportionate social burden in terms of inequitable access to decent healthcare‚ rising costs and higher rates of morbidity and mortality. People of color are receiving special attention in medical‚ social‚ and political literature due to disparities in health
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changing accordingly with the women involvement in society feminist movements. 2. Minorities are clearly over-represented among those arrested for a wide variety of crimes: is this a result of their greater involvement in criminal activity or the result of disproportionate arrest policies by law enforcement? This is only my opinion‚ but I think there is a disproportionate number of arrests among the minorities‚ the book doesn’t talk really much about the statistics for Hispanic population‚ but
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Gentrification the process of neighborhood change that results in the replacement of lower income residents with higher income ones. Revitalization • The process of enhancing the physical‚ commercial and social components of neighborhoods and the future prospects of its residents through private sector and/or public sector efforts. Physical components include upgrading of housing stock and streetscapes. • Commercial components include the creation of viable businesses and services in the community
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Assess the view that ethnic differences in crime are the result of the way in which the criminal justice system operates In the early phase of post-war immigration‚ there was an assumption that members of ethnic minority groups were no more likely to be offenders or victims than the majority white population. It was also assumed that the criminal justice system treated all ethnic groups fairly. According to a major investigation into police and immigrant relations in 1972 ‘black people were more
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because Buddhists has more power over the minorities group and their action control over the minorities. And usually‚ the powerful group gained a permission or immune from their own government law in chasing minorities. “But Burma’s democratization has also allowed extremist voices to proliferate and unleashed something akin to ethnic cleansing. The trouble began last year in the far west‚ where clashes between local Buddhists and Muslims claimed a disproportionate number of Muslim lives.” (Paragraph:10)
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that compared to white defendants‚ minority groups face a greater chance of prison and severe sentences for identical offenses (Killing With Prejudice). Nearly 51 percent of individuals in a study conducted in Philadelphia‚ believe that police are more likely to use excessive force against black or Hispanic suspects than white suspects. Minorities are more likely to be victims of police brutality. Not only are minorities treated poorly but also numbers of minorities are sent to trail for non-violent
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