...intrigue for the ancient traditions and mystique surrounding these two groups. The Asian culture is very colorful, fascinating, and dynamic. Buddhism is a religion based on spiritualism and the development of one's spiritual growth toward enlightenment. Even though my culture is not Asian, and Buddhism is not my chosen religion, I do find the discipline, art, and the adherence to traditional values kindred to my own. I also find the Buddhist practice of meditation relaxing and very effective at calming one's mind and in refocusing your energy. Over the course of this paper, I will offer a brief insight into the religious and cultural similarities and differences between the Buddhist religion, the Asian culture, and the rest of the world, as well as the discrimination endured by both. Buddhism: Similarities, Differences, and Discrimination The Buddhist religion is unique because they do not worship a deity, as other faiths do. Buddhist followers believe that each being shall reach enlightenment without the guidance of a God or Gods (BBC Online Services, 2014). Contrary to what most people think or believe, Buddha was not a "god", but a teacher. The teachings of Buddha were merely the path toward Nirvana. The decision to make the journey toward enlightenment, being left up to each Buddhist follower. The Buddhist belief focuses on the life after death, and tolerance through love and non-violence. The Buddhist belief is that if you live a good life while on Earth, your...
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...University of Phoenix Material Appendix D Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Ethnic group |Group of people whose members are identified through common traits. | |Anti-Semitism |Is a suspicion of hatred toward or discrimination against Jews for reason connected to Jewish heritage.| |Islamophobia |Is a neologism that refers to prejudice or discrimination against Islam or | | |Muslims. | |Xenophobia |The fear of hatred of strangers or foreigners. | |Persecution |Is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another group, most common are religious, | | |perecution¸and ethnic persecution. | |Religious group |The term religious group means “as set of individuals whose identity as | | |such is distinctive in terms of common religious creed, beliefs, doctrines, practices, or rituals. | Part II Select at least 1 religious and 1 ethnic/racial group not your...
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...1213-008 October 10 2015 The Rugged Road to True Freedom The United States of America is a place some people only dream of residing in. During the early twentieth century, hundreds of Japanese people ventured towards America—a land of freedom, equality, and justice. These people left an unstable homeland in search of peace and prosperity with the hope of providing a better future for their children. Ronald Takaki, in his book titled Strangers from a Different Shore, remarks that “America represented liminality,” and so Asian immigrants “could imagine what they could do in an unformed America, and their dreams inspired them to take risks. They wondered what they could become, unfurled before the winds of change and challenge”(42). This represents Japanese extravagance as a whole—traveling beyond known boundaries in pursuit of new freedom. Yet what seemed free wasn’t free at all, but rather a future of harsh treatment. Japanese-Americans crossed the boundaries of their homeland only to come into contact with more boundaries in America—of racism, American legislation and ultimately internment—which taxed the extravagance of Japanese-Americans. Throughout the next several decades, Japanese extravagance morphs to deal with America’s act of yarding them in through its legislation. In 1885, the Japanese government announced it would be sending six hundred immigrants to Hawaii. Many who crossed the frontier were financially distressed and viewed “themselves as dekaseginin—laborers working...
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...Did you ever think of about the Japanese-Americans and Jews during World at War II? Americans’ interned Japanese-Americans into camps out of fear, distrust and discrimination. Nazis’ imprisoned Jews for just discrimination and hate. They were both locked up for just being themselves, it was being Japanese and by just being a normal Jew. World at War II can teach us a lot about discrimination and being prejudice to other minority groups, WWII can show us how some minority groups suffer through even if they’re not inside a camp and just living in a normal neighborhood. In the book Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, it shows us how quickly something evil can happen to anyone in world. After the attack on Pearl Harbor about 120,000 of Japanese and Japanese Ancestry were relocated to internment camps for just being themselves. At one point during the war, Japanese-Americans were given a choice, one choice was getting sent back to Japan and most likely die from American Soldiers or to join the American side and fight against the Japanese. In the book Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne’s oldest brother Woody decided to go to war because he thought the sooner the war ended the...
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...For the United States, WWII began in 1941, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. For the next four years, the US wrestled with global war. The second World War was a difficult time of domestic relocation. Japanese Americans by force, and African Americans by choice. Japanese Americans and African Americans suffered through different kinds of discrimination. For example, African Americans struggled with general discrimination in housing and employment which was a continuation of the Jim Crow segregation. Several million Africans moved from rural areas to cities in order to find work. There were a great shortage of housing which ultimately led to overcrowding and white resentment. This caused African Americans to become ‘trapped’ in urban ghettos....
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...Rights In past decades, African Americans were considered as slaves and servants for the white majority. Minorities were segregated, marginalized and humiliated because of the color of their skin. When people hear the words civil rights its always connected to the image of Martin Luther King Jr., and his famous speech I Have a Dream in the nation’s capital. The civil rights movement succeeded thanks in part to the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. and the fight for equality of all people’s has started to become a reality. Inspired . African Americans got the most public attention after the end of World War II. They are well-know activists in protesting against discrimination in racism. Since the end of World War II, the population of African Americans in the United States has been increased 7% in few decades. The massive increase of African Americans population formed huge communities in cities, such as Oakland, Richmond, Los Angels etc. In this long time period, African Americans have to face and struggle for racial discrimination in their life. The major problems were employment, education, and housing. In the case of hiring, the ratio of unemployed African Americans increased double from 1940s to 1970s. Most of African Americans people had to deal with lower living standard. The economic discrimination kept African Americans away from skilled work or sometime not even a chance to get hired in any job. Before World War II, African Americans were denied to work in the field...
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...Andy Vu ETHN 14 PROF Mark 26 November 2015 Japanese Internment Camps during World War II: Sports in the Camps. The Bombing of Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941 resulted in President Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 0966 on February 19th 1942, which effected all Japanese ancestry, both citizens and aliens living in America or outside of the Pacific zone. The Executive Order's primary objective were to prevent any espionage and to protect the Japanese people from any harm against Americans who slowly began to become very strong anti-Japanese people who were growing their hate and racial discrimination to the Japanese due to the bombing. With the Executive Order in act, if affected “117,000 people of Japanese descent, two-thirds of whom were native-born citizens of the United States” (as stated through the National Archives.) Evacuation orders were posted in Japanese American communities giving them instructions on what they were to do. This included the Issei who were the first generation Japanese to immigrate to American and also the Nisei who were the second generation Japanese in America. The Japanese were allotted a few days to pack whatever they could and bring it with them. Many families had to sell off their homes, businesses and their belongings at a much lower price they had purchased it for. The 117,000 people of Japanese decent living in the U.S were later removed from their homes and moved to internment camps to prove their loyalty to the United States. During...
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...also Chinese sailors and peddlers in New York. Ancestors in the Americas: Asian America History Timeline, as retrieved from http://www.cetel.org/timeline.html A resource from one of the largest, up to date survey, which is the American Religious Identification surveys shows that not one religion can claim the majority for the Asian American Community. It shows a 27% of Asian Americans follow Eastern Religions such as Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist, Sikh. This report also shows that 17% of the Asian Community is Catholic. This percentage has declined from 27% in 1990. The Asian Nation website states, “Chinese Americans are the oldest and largest ethnic group of Asian ancestry in the United States. They have endured a long history of migration and settlement that dates back to the late 1840s…”, Lai, E., Arguelles, D. (2012) The New Face of Asian Pacific America: retrieved from http://www.asian-nation.org/chinese.shtml. Most Chinese immigrants arrived in the United States as contract labor. First in Hawaii for plantation followed by mining in the West Coast and after that working on transcontinental railroads west of the Rocky Mountains. There were many acts of discrimination towards Chinese immigrants. The discrimination against Chinese Americans culminated in the Chinese Exclusion Act 1882. “…effectively halted Chinese immigration for ten years and prohibited Chinese from becoming US citizens.” Harvard University...
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...Executive Order 9066” by Dwight Okita, and “Mericans” by Sandra Cisneros, I feel that both authors establish a common theme about the topic of American identity by referencing different American stereotypes and discrimination. Both authors Dwight Okita and "Sandra Cisneros were greatly influenced by the American culture. They also both talk about how cultural background and your appearance does not determine what being American means. In “Response to Executive Order 9066”, the person telling the story is a young 14 year-old girl. She doesn’t really seem to realize what’s happening and that her family will be deported to relocation centers for being of Japanese descent. The narrator’s best friend is a white girl named Denise. She was probably told by an adult about the American vs. Japanese issue. She isn’t nice to the narrator. For example, “She was sitting on the other side of the room. “You’re trying to start a war,” she said, ´giving secrets away to the Enemy. Why can’t you keep your big mouth shut?´” Okita clearly addresses the themes of discrimination towards the...
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...From the years of 1910-1970, Japanese Americans became thriving members of society despite the discrimination and social issues caused by World War II. The Japanese were highly superior in agriculture, contributed to the American market and even volunteered in World War II. The Japanese even volunteered in World War II for a country that didn't even accept them. Japanese Americans have made significant contributions to the agriculture of the United States,especially in the west. Japanese immigrants introduced farming techniques that enabled the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, and flowers on previously marginal lands. While the Issei, 1st generation Japanese Americans, survived and thrived in the early 20th century, most lost their farms during the internment during World War II. Japanese American detainees irrigated and cultivated lands...
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...The “Okies” faced a lot of discrimination in California. The Californian people/ Land Owners feared them very much. They also came during the same time of the depression, people of the town thought the “Okies” were stealing their jobs. “Land Owners feared that they would create a union and demand better pay, so they dehumanized the “Okies” and publicly humiliated these innocent people” (Oklahoma State Digital Library). The land owners and local residents put raised prices on food, knowing that the Okies didn’t make much money, which was very cruel. It seems as if farmers portrayed the role of a slave owner. They were so cruel to the Okies that they would not let them sing or talk while working. There was a punishment for Okies that did not follow the rules, they were insulted, humiliated or in some cases beaten. Farmers were so horrible that they would burn any extra food so that the Okies would leave. “Children of the Okies were also mistreated, they were ignored by teachers and were not given proper care when they went to the local hospitals” (Oklahoma State Digital Library). Lastly for these Okies they were lied to about the hopes and promises of California. Some stayed, still trying to hold on, others left because they could not take it anymore. Some Okies returned home after things got better in Oklahoma, some stayed and moved to big cities like San Fransisco and Los Angeles, some stayed in small cities like Pixie and Brawley. The Japanese were similar to any other migrants/immigrants...
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...Akwinder Kaur Professor: Monica Tapiarene English 100 10/30/2014 Discrimination Discriminations against people has been around for so many years. People don’t like another person because they just look different. More and more people are discriminated because of their religion, disability, skin color and many more injustices. Once an innocent person gets discriminated by someone, than the person many turns bad too, and that person wants to discriminate others. Person gets rejected by people because people think he/she does not fit in certain groups and humans get aggressive and show evil behavior towards everyone. People also are hating because they are not perfect and they have weird facial features and body. The creature in Marry Shelley’s Frankenstein Novel, his creator Victor Frankenstein hated and abandoned the creature just because he the creature didn’t look like a normal human. It was interesting to research about this topic because I will learn how human are discriminated in so many different ways. And how people get abandoned because they are not normal like a normal human and because of other differences. I have already known about this topic, “Kid Bullied to Leave School Because He Wasn’t Black Enough” is how people are hate one another just because they are different from them and doesn’t like like them. Another essay called, “The Culture of Cruelty,” From Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Daniel J. Kindlon and Michael Thompson shows...
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...While other groups came to seek their fortune in the “land of opportunity”, one group came to the America under duress. Each group found prejudice and discrimination. As the years passed and the country continued to grow, the barriers of prejudice and discrimination were beginning to crumble. The different groups began to accept the differences that accompanied the diversity of the nation. These changes bring up a question. Has the United States finally overcome our fear of diversity? If we examine the cultural background of Americans, we will discover many are of European descent. Many of our ancestors came looking for religious freedom. Others came to settle debts they had in their homeland. Some citizens are descendants of slaves who were sold to affluent citizens and plantation owners. The circumstances around people in these groups arrival resulted in prejudice and ethnocentrism. Prejudice was not just directed toward African Americans during the 19th century. German, Irish, Polish, Chinese and Italian immigrants found themselves the victims of prejudice and discrimination (Schaeffer, 2013). They came to the United States to find a better life. Many worked for wages which were less than Caucasian workers. Employers during this time would hire more immigrants because of this fact. Prejudice grew stronger toward these groups because they were taking the jobs away from white workers. This trend is still evident in...
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...Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet vs. American Pastime During World War II in 1940’s, the United States was at war with Japan. President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order requiring those people who were Japanese descendants to move West Coast. The United States were afraid of Japanese Americans spying for Japan. The living conditions of Japanese American internment camps were very challenging for them because of the housing, food and the daily experiences that the Japanese went through. Nowadays, there are some books and movies that demonstrate what life was like to be living life in an internment camp. For example, the book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet written by Jamie Ford and the movie American Pastime by Desmond Nakano show how difficult was to live an internment camp, how was the father and son relationship between the main characters and how people were maltreating the Japanese just because of their ethnicity. In American Pastime there is a typical American family who just happen to be Japanese heritage. They were sent to an internment camp and were forced to move out form their home to be relocated in an internment camp in topaz, Utah. The life of the Nomuras family had a radical change, just like the Okabes family in the book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. They were in the same situation like the nomuras. They have adapt themselves to sleep in small rooms cells or barracks and have meals three times a day in mess halls were portions...
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...University of Phoenix Material Appendix D Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Ethnic group |A group set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns. | |Anti-Semitism |Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group. | |Islamophobia |Fear or hatred of Muslims, their culture, or their politics. | |Xenophobia |Fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign. | |Persecution |The act or practice of persecuting, harassing, or annoying those who differ in origin, religion, or | | |social outlook. | |Religious group |A collection of individuals who share a unified system of sacred beliefs and practices that encompass | | |elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe, respect, and even fear. | Part II Select at least 1 religious and 1 ethnic/racial group not your own from the list below. • Religious groups (based on http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/affiliations-all-traditions.pdf) ...
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