Another thing the book stated which made me think a lot is the comment about race. It said that race is a social construct‚ not a scientific or biological fact. It was interesting learning about how race developed into a hierarchically issue. Race and ethnicity are different things and people do not realize the differences between the two. I have several questions from chapter four. When interacting with clients‚ if they use terms and microaggressions that you do not like‚ do you correct them? I think
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I really enjoyed to discuss and share ideas with you folks last night. As an international student‚ I had problems to understand discrepancy between race and ethnicity. Therefore‚ finding my place on those little boxes‚ which we fill on documents‚ is still not easy for me. I sometimes have question my identity who I am? What I am doing here? Which planet am I from? (Since‚ I am an alien‚ according to the USA.) I feel that identifying a human being with only his/her race is very shallow and bias
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Abstract The topic of my newspaper article will be Public Opinion of Police by Different Ethnic Groups. Ethnicity and the Police Part I: Outline People of different ethnic groups in the United States have an opinion of the police that is negative. There are many different reasons why people of different ethnic groups have such a negative opinion of the police. One reason why people of different ethnic groups have a negative opinion of police is they see police officers committing crimes
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regarding the nature and causes of the ongoing issues around nationalism‚ ethnicity and stately power in sub-Saharan Africa since decolonization. Colonial occupation and the manner in which independence was gained and free states were organized may be a possible explanation for the matters of contention revolving around ethnicity‚ nationalism‚ and states in Sub-Saharan Africa to this day. A first part will expose the reasons for multiple ethnicities being situated in the same territory‚ and contrast it
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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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individuals and groups. This distribution is not random‚ it is patterned and structured. Three important axes of global inequality are gender‚ race and ethnicity‚ and class. These inequalities are on a global scale and are found in virtually all societies. It wasn’t until relatively recently‚ however‚ that a caste system developed to include race and ethnicity among class and gender. Since imperialism and the conquest of the America’s‚ a number of social changes have occurred‚ and‚ as a result‚ the dominant
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usually straight or has a slight wavy. While African American usually has darker skin‚ thick and curly hair and fuller nose and lips. Ethnicity is a group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural pattern. Ethnicity also factors in ancestry and belief such as religion. A great example to demonstrate how ethnicity is different from race is how an African American culture is dramatically different from an African from Africa. I am a Black American Christian
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Anxiety is becoming a prevalent problem in American society. Bad news and tragedies that come from every source of media have got more than 18% of the adult population suffering from one of six anxiety disorders. I am researching the effects of ethnicity‚ gender‚ and age on levels of anxiety. It is hypothesized that Chinese students will be more anxious than Caucasians‚ females more anxious than males‚ and older students less anxious than younger students. The participants of this study are from
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Stephanie Saintyl Personal Anthropology April 23‚2013 At the beginning of the semester‚ I was not aware of what certain things I would be learning about in Intro to Anthropology. I didn’t even know what anthropology was and was just taking it to fill my pre-requisites requirement. Now that the class is coming to an end‚ I realized that I learned so much about my culture‚ self‚ and my community that I was unaware of before. There were …topics that I thought deeply about and realized that I
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available on the student website. Week One: Race‚ Ethnicity‚ Social Structure‚ and Crime Victims and Offenders Details Due Points Objectives 1.1 Define race‚ ethnicity‚ disparities‚ and discrimination. 1.2 Examine racial and ethnic categories in the statistical data reported by criminal justice agencies in the United States. 1.3 Understand explanations for disparity and causes of discrimination. 1.4 Analyze the relationship between race‚ ethnicity‚ social structure‚ and crime. 1.5 Compare victimization
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