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    An Ethnic minority background increases your chances of arrest and conviction‚ some people argue that police racism in itself results in higher suspicion against black people in general. According to official statistics there are significant ethnic differences in the likelihood of being involved in the criminal justice system. Black and Asians are overrepresented in the system. For example black people make up 2.8% of the population‚ but 11% of the prison population. Contrastingly whites are underrepresented

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    other groups based on their hair‚ skin tones‚ physical appearance‚ and the way they talk. Black people even have beliefs about how children should be raised and cared for. They may have similar qualities of other groups but there are many more differences. African Americans have had many‚

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    Assimilation or Retaining Ethnic Identity America was founded by a group of diverse immigrants. All immigrants are coming from different parts of the world such as Asia‚ Europe‚ Africa and Mexico and so on. Therefore‚ each person has his or her own culture‚ religion and beliefs. Most of the people who are immigrants are non-English speaking and face struggles and numerous challenges to assimilate into American society. Millions of people have been discriminated due to skin color‚ religions‚

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    Hong-Yi Pei AFS 202 Takeyuki Tsuda Extra Credit Discussion Paper 11/21/2012 Assimilation Versus Ethnic Pluralism In the reading I did‚ two of the immigrant adoption methods were introduced firmly and precisely. From reading those two articles‚ I gained my own knowledge and understanding towards both two different types of immigration adaptation. Furthermore‚ I also developed my own thoughts toward those different types of adaptation. Although I couldn’t judge which method is optimal‚ from

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    Assess the sociological explanations for ethnic differences in educational achievement Studies have been done and the results show that the ethnic groups most likely to have degrees are; Chinese (31%) this may be because Chinese view education as a very important thing and the parents tend to be more strict for example with homework and behaviour. Then it’s the Indian race (25%) this could be because a lot of the Indian are middle class so they have the money to pay for top resources such as laptops

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    Main Points: End of the Col War has coincided with increased nationalist‚ ethnic‚ and religious conflict in Eurasia Serbs and Slovenians‚ Croatians and Bosnian Muslims What are the causes of the varying intergroup relations? Ancient hostilities is not a good enough explanation Posen using the classic realist concept of the Security Dilemma to form his article Using it to analyze the “special conditions that arise when groups of people suddenly find themselves newly responsible for their

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    of the healthcare market. Definitely‚ the United Stated healthcare market is very complex and one of the fact that contribute to this feature is the diversity of the ethnic groups. Healthcare entities are continuously looking for to eliminate ethnic disparities and provide a better care among the community. In fact‚ Racial and ethnic disparities in the quality of health care are well documented in the U.S. health care system. Reducing these disparities requires action by health care organizations

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    CURSE: HAVING DIVERSE ETHNIC IDENTITY Multicultural people can be defined as a people who have more than one culture in other words who grew up with more than one cultural identity. A person who grew up with more than one culture is having a mixed ethnic identity. Amin Maloouf‚ who has mixed ethnic identity‚ is a Lebanese author‚ who born in Beirut. His father was from Melikte Greek Catholic community and on the other hand his mother was from Turkey. Also Maalouf (1998) mentions that he has lived

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    The Sui dynasty was the first dynasty‚ which began in 581 AD and lasted until 618 AD. The dynasty only lasted 37 years‚ and had the shortest time frame of the 3. Though they were the shortest‚ they still made many great accomplishments. Some of the accomplishments were inventing the Grand Canal‚ updating the Great Wall of China‚ building granaries‚ and stabilizing the economy. The Grand Canal connected the north and south provinces and it improved trade and communication. The Great Wall of China

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    JR Patterson Professor Weatherill English 121.01 19 September 2016 Rhetorical A Achieve Your Goals “The Achievement Habit” (Roth‚ Bernard) clearly spells out the true meaning of hard work‚ taking success to the very highest level‚ and finding the “Yellow Eyed Cats” (Roth) that can ruin a person’s perspective on the outside world for the rest of his life. “Who Am I? What do I Want? What is my purpose?” (Roth‚ 28). What is a “GOOOooood Reason” (Roth 34) for a poor excuse‚ and what really matters in

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