Ethnic and racial assimilation Melting pot or salad bowl Assimilation is the process by which many groups have been made a part of a common cultural life‚ which commonly shared values. The United states is described as a melting pot‚ because various racial and ethnic groups have been combined into one culture. The united states is described as a salad bowl‚ because various groups have remained different from one another. A bicultural group is characterized by considering themselves as
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ethnicity‚ economic benefits‚ jobs for non-immigrants‚ crime‚ voting behavior… Among all these immigrant groups‚ this paper will focus on three specifically: the Irish immigrants‚ the African-American and the Native-American. These three groups which lived the same experience of being from a different ethnicity‚ who had suffered from xenophobia and negative stereotypes are also different from each other considering their immigrant’s history‚ their assimilation‚ the way they deal with their cultural
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Chinese immigrants displayed were unrivaled to any other group. The Chinese took on a wide variety of occupations that needed to be filled in order to complete necessary jobs‚ which assisted in the growth of the economy as a whole. By 1880‚ a fifth were engaged mining‚ another fifth in agriculture‚ a seventh in manufacturing‚ a seventh were domestic servants‚ and a tenth were laundry workers ("Chinese Immigrants and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad"). All together‚ Chinese immigrants worked
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no other option than assimilation. Today‚ we have the right to choose. Back in the days you had rights only if you were part of the elite society‚ in this case‚ a white person. White people were so hungry power that they did whatever they had to as to gain all the land that belonged to the Native Americans. They took advantage of the inocense of the Native Americans and achieved their goals. Whites wanted total control over the Native Americans‚ they forced them to assimilation‚ tricked them and took
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surrounding and to adjust to the new freedoms that she encounters‚ she must also make the decisions of how much of assimilation of the new culture and how much retention of her own culture does she acquire. This article will show how the course in diversity has equipped and prepared this student to be more competent in working with this population. In reviewing the research on immigrant women and Nigerian women as a whole for comparison I interviewed 50 women to see if these women agreed with
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You are not important enough to be “Dear”. It would be too formal to say “To Whom it May Concern”. I cannot say your name without cringing. Aside from formalities‚ I am writing to you to let you know that I forgive you‚ even though you overlooked the fact I begged you to stop and you ignored how I cried tears of helplessness. I do not expect or even want a reply to this letter. I would not respond or even read it if a reply was sent to me. This letter is for my benefit and only my benefit. It is
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Homasom Hippolite-Amadi Professor C. Neenan English111: Process Analysis Essay 11 March 2013. How a Nigerian Applicant Should Prepare for an American Student Visa The visa can be seen as ones ticket to a journey‚ a step forward to an adventure. The visa is issued at embassies of the desired country one wants to go to‚ however‚ the experience that comes with applying for and getting a visa can be quite unforgettable. In Nigeria‚ there are two United States embassies; one is located at the formal
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Some of the problems that the Aboriginal people encountered as a result of this attempted assimilation were‚ and still are‚ poverty‚ addictions‚ abuse‚ crime‚ PTSD‚ loss of self respect‚ loss of pride and loss of their identity. The skills that they had been taught in the residential schools had nothing to do with native life‚ it was meant for
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from The Emigrants by Edward Kamau Brathwaite The poem from The Emigrants by Edward Kamau Brathwaite is the thoughts of an indigenous inhabitant‚ the persona‚ thinking of the invasion that has been so abruptly brought upon them which they must now face. We know that the persona is one of the inhabitants because in line four and twelve‚ the repetition of “my” personalizes what is happening‚ coming from an inhabitant’s perspective. The themes perception versus reality‚ power‚ discovery and war
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The group of Swedish people came to America mainly for job opportunities. They started to travel here in the 1840s when a group o pioneers started a migration tradition between certain areas in the United States. This caused what they call‚ colonies‚ to form in settlements including: western Illinois‚ Iowa‚ central Texas‚ southern Minnesota‚ and western Wisconsin. The population overgrowth in Sweden was a major reason for the people of Sweden to leave their home country. Religion beliefs and political
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