Minorities and our constitution: Historical Approach and its present relevance: Though Indian society has been plural from ancient times‚ the minority problem faced as faced by the framers of the Constitution is widely believed to be the creation of the colonial regime. The plural Indian society has various groups – ethnic‚ religious and linguistic. They used to live harmoniously together with broad cultural unity. Even Islam co-existed with Hinduism. However‚ the British rule made a qualitative
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Michael Gillaspie American History Ms. Rankin 15 December 2003 Chinese Immigration In many aspects‚ the motivations for the Chinese to come to the United States are similar to those of most immigrants. Some came to "The Gold Mountain‚" and others came to the United States to seek better economic opportunity. Yet there were others that were compelled to leave China either as contract laborers or refugees. The Chinese brought with them their language‚ culture‚ social institutions‚ and customs
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Japanese-Americans as a Minority Japanese-Americans are a minority group consisting of people with ethnic ties to the archipelago of Japan‚ in eastern Asia. According to Pew Research Center (2012)‚ there were approximately 1‚304‚286 Japanese-Americans living in the United States in 2011. With the overall trend of Asian-American populations rising (Pew Research Center‚ 2012)‚ this number has certainly gone up‚ especially due to‚ according to Toji (2003)‚ those with mixed ancestry. Japanese-Americans
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republican ideals. After the Chinese Civil War during the Communist era‚ China ’s government‚ under Mao Zedong ’s leadership‚ from 1949 to 1978‚ worked to unify China under one single social class. Finally‚ from 1978 to the present‚ a movement opening China to the world and international markets has provoked a new educational policy preparing the Chinese students to the modern world the complexity of Chinese society in 2012. Despite the reforms implemented by the Chinese government during the past
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Chinese Women: Becoming Half the Sky? ---An Analysis of Modern Feminism in China On November 7th‚ 2013‚ in order to promote a feminist student group’s upcoming campus performance of The Vagina Monologues‚ U.S. playwright Eve Ensler’s controversial play (Jaffe 2013)‚ 17 female students at the Beijing Foreign Studies University posted online photos of themselves holding up messages of “What My Vagina Says: …”. However‚ they probably didn’t expect to cause such a stir on Chinese social media. While
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Running head: EUROPE ETHNIC “Europe’s Ethnic Minorities” Jessica Williams Instructor Amber Welch HIS 306 Twentieth-Century Europe March 1‚ 2011 Europe’s Ethnic Minorities Since the 1900s‚ European History has seen its lows and highs when it came to ethnic tolerance and prejudice. The European Union has been dealing with discrimination for a long period of time. This conflict stems from the principles of social‚ economic
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Developing in today’s society and culture‚ I recently realized what it truly means to be a black women living in America. Going to a high school where I am a minority by all meanings of the word‚ I was not aware of how I was being perceived by other. This unknown ignorance helped me go through my first year of high school without faltering in knowing what I thought I stood for. My lack of understanding my role in society was why I felt a sense of false serenity about the stability of the world around
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Chinese culture 1. Chinese Tea Culture China is the homeland of tea. It is believed that China has tea-shrubs as early as five to six thousand years ago‚ and human cultivation of teaplants dates back two thousand years. Tea from China‚ along with her silk and porcelain‚ began to be known the world over more than a thousand years ago and has since always been an important Chinese export. At present more than forty countries in the world grow tea with Asian countries producing 90% of the world’s
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Improving Education for Minorities We have a long way to go‚ but the successes of hundreds of projects nationwide show that hope is very much alive. By the year 2015 or so‚ minorities will make up one-third of our population and a higher proportion of our work force. From this group can come a major share of the skilled technicians‚ scientists‚ engineers‚ and doctors‚ as well as teachers‚ generals‚ policymakers‚ financiers‚ and a host of other professionals that America needs to move ahead in the
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transpired in the land of the free‚ or better known as The United States of America. The reading‚ “The Chinese Exclusion Act a Black Legacy”‚ claimed the American’s beliefs influenced the bringing about of The Chinese Exclusion Act. One of these notion is that the Chinese immigrants were taking work away from the citizens of the United States. The Americans also weren’t keen to the lowering of wages‚ being that the Chinese were eager to work at whatever the pay was available. There was furthermore
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