Journalist Steve Olson expresses his views of racial and cultural identity in The End of Race: Hawaii and the Mixing of Peoples. The belief of a complete end to race is absurd to many‚ but Olson states “When we look at another person‚ we won’t think Asian‚ black‚ or white. We’ll just think: person.” (Olson p.261) Ultimately cultures will never die‚ we will always have an individual race with different backgrounds and heritages‚ but the global mindset of judging and categorizing people in groups based
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Education Community and diversity are two of the most prominent factors colleges and universities use to attract students. At Temple University‚ it is easy to see that the school tries hard to implement these words into our heads whether it be succeeding or failing in reality. Temple makes it known in their mission statement‚ policies‚ and standing proof that they surely uphold the title as being one of the most diverse schools in the nation. However‚ after reading the chapter about Rebekah Nathan’s
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Anthropology Nathan’s My Freshman The protagonist in the novel‚ Rebekah Nathan talks about the existence of division along racial and cultural lines with the institutions of higher learning. While she was undercover as a student at Northern Arizona University‚ the professor learnt that there were silent and largely unseen divisions that separated local students from international students. Most of the local students were adamant that they were not aware of the cultural differences among their inner
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The End of Race What if the human races of the world all vanished into thin air? That’s what Steve Olson proposes in “The End of Race: Hawaii and the Mixing of Peoples”. According to the world everyone is made of a certain race. The two main races are White and Black (African American). But there are others as well‚ including American Indian (Alaska Native)‚ Asian‚ Hispanic (Latino)‚ Native Hawaiian (Other Pacific Islander)‚ or Other. Most people only identify as one corresponding to their birth
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Based off this essay I feel Rebekah was able to capture a very good view on the general dorm life on college. All though there were some differences between building structures and door decorating rules not much seems to have change from when she lived in a dorm to how dorm life is now. One of my favorite things to read was how amazed she was by how two people could adjust and fit so much stuff in a small room by building up. Being in a forced triple I instantly connected with this amazement. When
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The End of the Race Thinking about the outcome of mixing races‚ are Asians and Europeans distinguishable in the distant future? As intermarriage goes intense‚ there would be many minorities in race. In contrast‚ majorities’ attitudes toward minorities generate discrimination simultaneously; minorities are more likely to be exposed to prejudice. However‚ Steve Olson says that each mixed individuals are the key to weaken the barricade between races. Matthijis Kalmijin also supports
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by anthropologist Rebekah Nathan. From this experience Nathan wrote about her first year as a college student. Nathan’s story attempts to show the social and academic expectancy of a student entering college. Nathan gave her personal accounts of freshmen life by communicating her experience in the dorm‚ study habits‚ general student interactions‚ and demographic. When comparing student life at Albion to that depicted in Nathan’s account‚ I could make generalizations but as Nathan also found‚ no student
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Rebekah Nathan‚ a professor at AnyU and author of "My Freshman Year"‚ looks into the life of a college undergraduate student. Nathan’s primary methodology was participant observation (p. 5). By going from being a professor to an undergraduate student‚ the little things had to change. She turned into a piece of the field work‚ needed to utilize individual exposure‚ and needed to lose objectivity in order to stay focused and on track with her research. Nathan came across a few difficulties along the
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In Chapter One: Welcome to “AnyU” of My Freshman Year‚ Rebekah Nathan gives a brief introduction of her background as a cultural anthropologist and a professor. Nathan proceeds to inform the reader of the concerns she has of the professor/student relationship. To resolve her concerns‚ the author decides to conduct a study by enrolling into the college she instructs at as a first-year freshman. During the first chapter‚ Nathan tries to interact with the students to gain further understanding of the
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Diversity Diversity- the condition of being composed of variety: including the different types of people of different races or cultures in a group or organization. I highly believe that The University of Kentucky is a very diverse college. There are females‚ males‚ Latinos‚ African Americans‚ Caucasians‚ Asians‚ and many other different types of people that go to The University of Kentucky. Diversity is very important because people can learn from the different cultures and ways people live. You
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