Abstract This paper will explore my philosophy of diversity. Since I live in the United States‚ the paper will focus on the United States’ diversity. In the course‚ ORG6499: Cultural Diversity & Individual Differences we have done multiple discussion journal reflections which relate to diversity. The paper will relate those discussions to my philosophy of diversity. A few of those discussions focused on the United States diversity and it appears that America’s diversity would be pluralistic and
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Allison Bergonia English 100 20 September 2013 Myths of the Melting Pot Modern America is considered to be a melting pot‚ in which a variety of races‚ cultures‚ or individuals gather into a unified whole. The ideas of being a new American for people who have migrated from their homeland to America are to leave behind all their past cultures and practices and embrace their new American ways. Is that what really happens? If it was‚ would there be still racism in America? The number of people immigrating
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countryside. Other methods in organization is the separation of children and adults‚ removing of families from their home and placing people into "classes". Pol Pot organized people based on their level in society and intellect. He once said‚"If you have a disease of the old society‚ take a dose of Lenin as medication." (Pot 189). This is when Pol Pot was trying to bring back Cambodia to year zero and turn it to communism. POLARIZATION The next stage in genocide is polarization. Polarization is the silencing
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relationships among various communities of racial‚ ethnic‚ and others we are groping for an image. Some hold on to the notion of a melting pot‚ others believe we have become mosaic like‚ there is the fruit salad metaphor and there is also the tributaries metaphor. The melting pot is a metaphor for the way in which homogeneous societies develop‚ which the ingredients in the pot (people of different cultures and religions) are combined so as to lose their discrete identities to some degree‚ yielding a final
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implemented? Pol Pot was the head of the Khmer Rouge that seized power of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 leaving behind the catastrophic remnants of their reign in the years to come. Pol Pot was inspired by the writings of communist philosopher Karl Marx and based his regime and policies around his famous political manuscript “The Communist Manifesto”. His writing stressed the importance of equality‚ harmony and justice in society and drew attention to the class struggle. Pol Pot wanted to eliminate
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Poseidon Final Assignment for the HOTS Simulation Contents Letter from GM 2 Industry Environment 3 Intended Strategy Selection 4 Intended Pro-forma income statement from year 1 to year3 5 Realized Strategies and Deviations 7 Realized P&L Statement from year 1 to year 3 10 SWOT Analysis 10 Financial condition: 12 Marketing strategies and effectiveness 21 Physical property condition 22 Impacts of decisions on human beings 23 Cost Control 24 Strategic Recommendation
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“God is making the American.” In Israel Zangwill’s The Melting Pot‚ America is concerned as the new world. Zangwill wrote the play in the early nineteen hundreds when immigration to the Americas was sufficiently increasing. Many Americans were against the idea of so many different people entering ‘their’ country; while immigrants saw the Americas as a place to which they had spent their whole lives coming. In The Melting Pot‚ immigration causes a rift in those residing in America. David welcomes
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that Americans are consists of many people from different races‚ religions and ethnics. A lot of culture‚ might be‚ live together in the same area. Before‚ they called it as “melting pot” where so many different culture are blending‚ mixing each other without decompress the culture it self. However‚ the term “melting pot” is no longer use by the American because‚ in fact‚ the culture is not blending or mixing to each other. They are stand side by side and keep their own color like mosaic. With this
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During the last three decades‚ Cambodia has suffered through war‚ political disorder and genocide. On April 17th 1975 after winning the civil war‚ the Khmer Rouge gained the control of the Phnom Penh. This communist guerrilla group led by Pol Pot would cause unimaginable devastation and misery throughout Cambodia for the next three years‚ eight months and twenty days. The Khmer Rouge forced the people of Cambodia to the countryside and to labor camps. Families were separated‚ children
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Majority rule is the principle that the greater number should exercise greater power. The Khmer Rouge takeover in Cambodia is a good example of a majority rule government. During the Cambodian genocide‚ the Khmer Rouge and their notorious leader‚ Pol Pot‚ represented the majority after it defeated the Lol Non government. The question is how are they considered to be the majority when most of the population of Cambodia is against them? They used fear to make the people their followers and thus controlled
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