The United States is a country with great opportunities for foreign immigrants from around the world. “The history of the United States is a history of immigration‚ beginning with English colonists landing in Virginia and Massachusetts in the early seventeenth century to avoid religious persecution. Since then‚ there have been several great waves of immigration to the United States” (Jacobs and Walter‚ 6). Many immigrants don’t even want to immigrate they don’t want to leave their families and friends
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“What are the dimensions of cultural diversity? Identify and briefly explain the dimensions by referencing both textbooks There are many dimensions of cultural diversity that are changing‚ as mankind all over the world is being promoted to a better understanding a better quality and understanding of life. In chapter 1 of Exploring Race and Ethnicity; One hundred years ago‚ sociologist and activist W. E. B. Du Bois took another famed Black activist‚ Booker T. Washington‚ to task for saying that
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Hispanic Groups Living in the United States Mexicans‚ Puerto Ricans‚ Cubans and Dominicans living in the United States The Hispanic population grew in every region of the United States between 2000 and 2010‚ and most significantly in the South and Midwest. About three-quarters of the Hispanic population living in the United States are reported as Mexican‚ Puerto Rican or Cuban origin in the 2010 Census. Mexican Americans are the largest Hispanic group living in the United States‚ representing
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The topic of segregation in the United States has been a matter of great discussion since the Plessy Supreme court case in 1896. However‚ there is a much lesser talked about instance of segregation that occurred in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. That instance was called the Apartheid. Apartheid literally translates to “the status of being apart.” It was put into motion by the National Party as a way of upholding white supremacy after World War II. The inhabitants of South Africa were separated
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Chapter 10 Social Significance of Race and Ethnicity - Race: people who share physical characteristics‚ such as skin color and facial features that are passed on through reproduction - social construction: a societal invention that labels people based on physical appearance. - Skin color‚ hair texture‚ and eye shape are examples of unequal treatment - Ethnic Group: a group of people who identify with a common national origin or cultural heritage that includes language‚ geographic roots‚ food
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What do you understand by the term “Lancefield groups”? History In the early 1930’s Rebecca Lancefield recognized the importance of serological tests for the identification of organisms. The system is based on specific antibody agglutination reactions with cell wall carbohydrate antigens (C polysaccharides) extracted from the streptococci. Lancefield also showed that further sub division of group A into specific serological types was possible using type-specific M (protein) antigens. The groups
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Inequalities of Race and Ethnicity With more than six billion people in this world‚ with a huge variety of human shapes‚ colors and sizes can race really be defined? As people spread across the world. Mixing among each other creating new kinds of faces there is no true race. But people such as Hitler believed that the Aryans where the superior race responsible got the cultural achievements in Europe and that they has to stop "racial contamination" that would come from breeding with inferior races by destroying
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RACE AND ETHNICITY A. Cult of Ethnicity The US escaped the divisiveness of a multiethnic society by a brilliant solution: the creation of a brand-new national identity. The point of America was not to preserve old cultures but to forge a new‚ American culture. This was the ideal that a century later Israel Zangwill crystallized in the title of his popular 1908 play The Melting Pot. The new American identity was inescapably English in language‚ ideas and institutions. The pot did not melt everybody
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Minority groups started a very long process of work to have their rights and protection from the trade unions. Minority groups had different strategies and methods that need to be taken for further their interests within the union. Minority groups had it rough especially in the early 20th century. Because there were a lot of lack of support from trade unions towards the minority groups (Hunt & Rayside‚ ). The trade unions ignored many different minority group’s needs and minority groups were suffering
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Collecting data on race and ethnicity can be beneficial in so many ways‚ especially within the healthcare field. Healthcare involves a diverse set of public and private data collection systems‚ which uses surveys and other tools to collect data on race‚ ethnicity‚ language and other medical conditions. Collecting additional data during patient encounters could possibly fill quite a few significant gaps‚ however‚ this method is likely to yield data on unreliable information‚ and it can become time
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