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    The Impact of Ethnicity

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    The impact of Ethnicity‚ Gender‚ Geographical Differences and Age on Individual Behavior The new era in business is facing with the globalization‚ and globalization brings diversity. Diversity is a very real aspect of the American’s culture. How does diversity impact individual behavior? According with Hung Ng (2005)‚ “humans exist not only as unique individuals‚ but also as members of social groups that are formed on the basis of ethnicity‚ gender‚ age‚ and so for.” These dual aspects of the human

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    Race is a biological entity‚ but it has been proven that the concept of race can be constructed or manipulated by societies that even though since an anthropological and biological perspective the barrier between races is very clear. Ethnicity isn’t a societal concept founded by the color of skin‚ since everyone knows individuals of the identical race have variations of skin color. For example in European circles‚ Middle Easterners such as Arabs‚ Jews‚ Iranians (Indo-Europeans or Aryans); North

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    2. In referring to Appendix B‚ the “Excerpt from Taxi Tales”‚ discuss raceethnicity and culture in Singapore. Raceethnicity and culture are independent of one another. Even if ‘race’ is defined to be encoded (i.e. genetic)‚ culture (how one lives and the practices involved) isn’t. The concept of race is rooted in biological classification and more of ‘attributions’. Ethnicity on the other hand emphasis more on culture rather than biology and incorporates the idea of social grouping and their

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    Inequality: RaceCrime‚ and the Law Policing and punishment in America is hardly colorblind. It is not a coincidence that minorities serve longer sentences‚ have higher arrest and conviction rates‚ face higher bail amounts‚ and are more often the victims of police use of deadly force than white citizens. When it comes to criminals‚ many people have a preconception of what a criminal is. Usually when people think of a criminal they picture a Black or Latino face. The thought of an Asian criminal

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    Throughout Seeing Race in Modern America‚ scholar Matthew Pratt Guterl explores how cultural “sightlines” (Guterl 2) resist change over time in the way we see race as he argues that race is a “social construction of color” (Guterl 3)‚ dependant on visual cues. Guterl uses a myriad of visual culture‚ such as advertisements‚ movies‚ and popular culture as evidence that making race visual is what causes its longevity. In his analysis of “sightlines that challenge the eye‚” (Guterl 128) he turns to movies

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    Ethnicity And Sexuality

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    purity‚ used the idea that some sex was dangerous and negative. These activists had ideas on sex that affected people of different ethnicity as well. In addition to being exclusionary‚ this movement allowed for sexual practices of people from different ethnicity to be deemed as dangerous. In her text titled “Ethnicity and Sexuality.”‚ Joanne Nagel writes that “ ethnicity and sexuality are strained‚ but not strange bedfellows. Ethnic boundaries are also sexual boundaries-erotic intersections where people

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    providing retirement and health benefits. Organized crime will begin to weaken its strangle hold on the area and crime rates will decline. With the decline of crime‚ better health options and an increase in job opportunities we will begin to see an increase in immigration and an increase in life expectancy (demographic changes). However‚ under the “Disintegration in Hell” scenario things will not look quite as optimistic. Organized crime becomes more influential in the region. The government

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    Crime in America has been on the decline since 1992 when crime was at an all time high. There was gun a gun control law and an increase in incarceration‚ giving people way longer sentences for small offenses. The gun control law made it harder for people to get their hands on weapons and the increase of incarceration made people scared to commit crimes cause the fear of getting harsh sentences. Also there was a boom in the economy that help also. With P. Bill Clinton passing the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation

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    Reflection on Ethnicity

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    that inhabit it. With that mobility comes the shared responsibility to negotiate with people who may initially seem unfamiliar and learn to express the experience. The word "ethnicity" is used to describe a specific population’s characteristics of fundamental aspects that all humans share. When applied loosely‚ ethnicity becomes a blanket term to define large populations‚ undermining the worth and the diversity within that group and emphasizing the differences between cultures. Yet those differences

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