Diversity‚ Inequality‚ and Immigration Shanna Marie Fulwood HHS201 Angela Anderson February 11th‚ 2013 Diversity‚ inequality‚ and immigration or three words that brings mind some of the current political subjects that are currently affecting the United States today. Throughout the country’s history‚ there is the notable inequality and racial injustice in our society. This can be seen‚ and our history textbooks‚ about the Civil War‚ civil rights movement‚ and the more recently with the gay-rights
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prejudice‚ discrimination‚ and ethnocentrism. • Ethnocentrism an attitude of superiority toward members of other ethnic groups ETHNOCENTRISM: the tendency to believe that one’s ethnic or cultural group is centrally important‚ and that all other groups are measured in relation to one’s own. The ethnocentric individual will judge other groups relative to his or her own particular ethnic group or culture THE PROBLEM: Ethnocentrism leads us to make false assumptions about cultural differences. We
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In The Meaning of Race‚ writer Kenan Malik states that “one of the striking aspects of the study of race is that everyone ‘knows’ what a ‘race’ is‚ but no one can quite define it.” Indeed for most people the definition of the word ‘race’ remains quite elusive although it is being used in everyday language‚ usually in the context of a physical description. For example‚ the Cambridge Dictionary website describes the word as “a group‚ especially of people‚ with particular similar physical characteristics
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What do the terms race and ethnicity mean to you? Race to me is a human definition of skin color and physical features. In America‚ we are so easy to classify a race just by looking at a person’s skin color and hair texture. In other countries‚ such as Brazil it is harder to tell a distinct race by skin color being that it’s a hot country. Examples of race will include; Whites‚ Blacks‚ Native Americans‚ Asian Americans‚ Chinese‚ etc. Ethnicity to me is a cultural and physical background
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factors in children’s home background which may lead to differences in achievement between ethnic groups. The first way is from cultural deprivation‚ with the socialisation experience of children‚ values‚ expectations and norms transmitted at home. Driver and Ballard 1979 argued that high achievement in some Asian groups might be linked to the presence of close knit extended families. However with some ethnic groups many tend to have low income‚ which may explain why black pupils tend to underachieve
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Using the data in the table provided‚ what can you say about the ethnicity of the population in the national parks of England and Wales. There are 5 main ethnic groups and 18 sub groups represented in table 1. Using the data in the table provided you can see that the majority of people who use the national parks of England and Wales are white - English‚ with other - black being the least amount of people to use the national parks. From the table you can see Northumberland national park is the
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Ex: India Dowry deaths Disputes over the price to be paid by the family of the bride to the father of the groom (the dowry) have‚ in some cases‚ led to the death of the bride Ex: Arranged marriages in India Ethnic Cleansing The mass expulsion or killing of members of an ethnic or religious group in a society. Ex: The Holocaust Ethnicity Affiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture. Ex: Germans Gender Social differences between men and women
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Ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one’s ethnic or cultural group is centrally important‚ and that all other groups are measured on one’s own cultural value. Ethnocentrism happens when one culture or nation places itself at the top of a self proclaimed hierarchy of cultures and nations and subsequently assigns other cultures and nations equivalent or lower value based on that scale. In other words‚ it is the proneness to think other cultures are of lesser worth because it is different
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her work‚ “Constructing Ethnicity: Creating and Recreating Ethnic Identity and Culture.” She says the constructionist view is that “the origin‚ content‚ and form of ethnicity reflect the creative choices of individuals and groups as they define themselves and others” (Nagel‚ 237) This idea is far different from that of Omi and Winant’s essentialist theory that race is socially constructed theory. Nagel would argue that individuals and ethnic groups are at the core of the true meaning of ethnicity and
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Race in British Society This essay will differentiate between ethnicity and race; it will then go on to evaluate the historical and biological basis for the concepts of race and ethnicity within Britain. It will assess and evaluate immigration and race relations in Britain. Finally it will explain the effects of legislation and analyse historical developments in race relations. Race and ethnicity are often confused and mistaken for meaning the same thing. People categorised others for
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