Minority Disinvestment A minority disinvestment is one such that‚ at the end of it‚ the government retains a majority stake in the company‚ typically greater than 51%‚ thus ensuring management control. Historically‚ minority stakes have been either auctioned off to institutions (financial) or offloaded to the public by way of an Offer for Sale. The present government has made a policy statement that all disinvestments would only be minority disinvestments via Public Offers. Examples of minority
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Past literature regarding the portrayal of minorities in television commercials indicate that both psychological and interpersonal communication contribute to the main objective of finding how minorities are portrayed differently than their non-minority counterparts‚ and also what effects this has on individuals’ perception of minorities. There have been two studies done that have included either social influence or media influence in their study regarding the effects of media on individuals. The
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Racial Profiling Throughout many communities‚ racial profiling has been brought up numerous times due to the fact that many feel as though they are being discriminated against through law-enforcement policies. Race and ethnicity play a big role in this debate because police tend to pull over individuals due to their color rather than if they have suspicious activities going on. It is said by Jim Cleary that several officers pull over people of a different race on a daily basis yet never record
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Social and Economic Issues There are four main ethnic minority groups in the United States: African Americans The distribution of African Americans in the US was traditionally concentrated in the southern states. However‚ for a number of years in the latter part of the 20th century‚ large African American populations have developed in northern cities such as Chicago and New York. The capital‚ Washington DC‚ also has a particularly large African American community. In recent years many African
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Racial Profiling Abstract Racial profiling is a current‚ central‚ and controversial area of law enforcement. There have been many concerns and issues among the minorities‚ politicians‚ law enforcement administrators‚ and researchers about the police use of racial profiling. This paper discusses the issues of racial profiling‚ such as racial bias of police‚ which includes racial profiling of motorist‚ cyclists‚ and pedestrians. The issue of discriminatory treatment of minority individuals and
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the movie “Minority Report” directed by Steven Spielberg‚ individuals with precognitive powers were utilized by the police to prevent murders from ever taking place. The system is widely approved in the movie due to the success of the project in eradicating murders and is frequently referred to as “perfect.” The Precrime division was victim to the effects of the Self-fulfilling prophecy and Confirmation bias as they believed the system to be so perfect all the abnormalities found were overlooked
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Profiling based on race has become a prevalent method that cops and authority figures use to arrest or question an individual. Racial profiling is most noticed on the highways and in airports. Racial profiling occurs when law enforcement or security officials‚ consciously or unconsciously‚ subject individuals at any location to heightened scrutiny based solely or in part on race‚ ethnicity‚ aboriginality‚ place of origin‚ ancestry‚ or religion‚ or on stereotypes associated with any of these factors
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Philip K Dick’s book The Minority Report. The minority reports discusses the issue between rights and freedom and completely enclosed safety both coming at a cost. Although throughout the novel Dick wavers back between the two representing his thoughts through his main character Anderton who eventually decides on the freedom of rights agreeing with the quote “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”‚ which was said by Benjamin
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Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition. Bird‚ Karen. 2009. Running Visible Minority Candidates in Canada: The Effects of Voter and Candidate Ethnicity and Gender on Voter Choice Canada in Comparative Perspective‚ Queen’s University‚ Kingston‚ ON‚ Canada‚ May 7-8‚ 2009. Bissoondath‚ Neil. 1994. Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada. Toronto: Penguin. Black‚ Jerome and Lynda Erickson. 2006. Ethno-racial Origins of Candidates and Electoral Performance. Party Politics 12 (4): 541–61
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an ethnic minority and the contextual factors that come with it contribute to anxiety disorders among youth. All the disadvantages that come with being a minority interact in a way that produces a stressful environment‚ furthering feelings of anxiety. The most commonly associated variable with minority status is low socioeconomic status. Both of these factors are related to symptoms of anxiety. From a socio-ecological perspective racial minority status is part of the exosystem‚ which forms the setting
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