...“A world so hateful that some people would rather die than be who they are.”-Unknown. It breaks my heart to know that this is true. Each year 1 million people commit suicide. The people of America I know want to stop this from happening. The America I want to live in, is a place where everyone treats each other the same.There would not be problems with religion, race, sexuality, gender, age, culture, and much more. The America I want to live in does not ‘judge a book by its cover’. The America I want to live in is a place where people accept each other based on their personality, not what they look like or talk like. The United States is a place with much diversity. Diversity makes us unique and special. Although diversity also seems to be...
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...Diversity in America Eth/125 June 23, 2013 Juan E. Vega I can honestly say that I learned such much in Culture Diversity Class. I learned many not only learned many things regarding my culture but also with other different cultures. The United States has many cultures races and ethnicities which include whites, African America, Native Hawaiian, Native American, Alaska Native, also Asian and American Indian. This class was really eye opener to me and I hope it’s the same with every student. I learned so much about diversity in American and how we are all same but different in some way. For an example two people with different races like an American and Muslim American, they have to different beliefs but there here in the United States to pursue their happiness and have the American dream where they can be free and work and have life. The United States has changed from having segregation, discrimination to having respectful community. I learned so much about my racial group. I honestly believe that the Mexican Americans are one of the hardworking groups here in the United States. They would work for anyone who is willing to pay even thought the pay isn’t good. Many American –White think this is a disadvantage to them because they see it as the Mexican –Americans come here to the United to steal their job just because they are willing to work for less pay. I have come across many Americans who are lazy and don’t want to work so how is it okay to say that Mexican Americans...
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...The United States of America is made up of several different races, religions, and ethnicities, as well as men and women of different ages, and sexual orientations. This makes the United States one of the most diverse nations on earth. It is estimated between the years 2010 to 2050 minorities will increase from 36% to 54% of the population. (Schaefer, p. 4, 2012)(p.4). Immigration is the main reason for this estimate. It is estimated that in 2050, 67 million people will be immigrants and another 47 million people will be the children of immigrants. (The "Pew Research Center") (2012). While there are benefits of such a diverse nation, the United States still faces many challenges, because of prejudice and discrimination. With the rising population of immigrants, the population of people living in poverty will also rise. With the rise of people living in poverty, there will also be a rise in crime. The reason for this is, people who live in poverty have less access to high paying jobs are more likely to participate in illegal activities, such as dealing drugs to make money. Minorities and immigrants are statistically paid less than whites, for doing the same jobs. So this is what leads to poverty. The rising crime rate among minorities and immigrants also leads to the separation of families. Many children in poverty ridden neighborhoods are raised by single parents. The rising number of crimes in these neighborhoods leads to more parents, mostly men put in prison...
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...America and Diversity Kathy McGowan ETH/125 February 2, 2014 Shanna Birkholz-Vasquez America and Diversity Over more than two hundred years, the United States has grown from a fledgling nation to one of the most powerful countries in the world. The principles which established this nation attracted many different groups to its shores. Principles of freedom of religion and speech bought refugees from different ethnic groups. 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...
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...America has become a melting pot of ethnic people. If you live in or near a city you can see the many ethnic cultures that influence our lives. America began with waves of immigrants, bringing their own cultures and traditions to a new country so they can express them. Nowhere else on this planet can you find such a diverse population. It's this mixture that makes America what it is but it also makes up a lot of the problems we face. Because of this diversity, Americans are unique in the fact that the majority of us are descended from more than one race or ethnic group. America is not a culture nor a religion. It is a land where all the different religions and cultures live on. America is a place where your skin color doesn't matter or what...
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...America today is probably the number one country with the most cultural diversity with yet not much culture at all. America has so much diversity because America accepts immigrants from all around the world, these immigrants making up social groups such as; Italians, Asians, Chinese, African Americans, Polish, Germans, Arabs, Indians and so on. Culture comes from each of these social groups. Culture is the behaviors, ideologies, and molding principles of a group, each social group has its own beliefs such as celebrations, rituals, art, style of cooking and more. This causing culture to be a huge impact in society. Culture impacts me in almost every aspect of life, because it is everywhere around me. One of the biggest ways culture impacts me...
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...America has long been considered, “The American Melting Pot”, born on the ideas of differences. While America has long been rooted in this idea, it has not been easy for all groups of individuals to be accepted in America’s recent past. Like all differences, differences have the ability to be seen as a source of conflict, a source of achievement, or both. One of the main areas where acceptance has been a source of conflict in America’s past, has been individuals with disabilities. In the past, these individuals were seen as incapable of living normal day to day lives. Particularly, they were seen as incapable of having jobs or attending school like their peers. While disabled individuals have been a source of conflict in America’s past, the...
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...Diversity and Prejudice in America Alycia Toth Eth/125 Professor Nowinski “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” Maya Angelou said these famous words and she could not have been more accurate. Discrimination and hate are not going away anytime soon but educating our youth on history, diversity, and prejudice could very well be the key to coming closer to the end. First I would like to discuss what I have learned from this class about diversity, discrimination, and prejudice. Honestly I had a general idea of what these three words meant but overall I was not entirely clear on their meaning let alone the severity of them in America. Like most people I was aware of the Civil Rights Movement and Act and knew that African American endured quite the challenge of gaining their rights and freedom but reading the text I was able to understand more of what happened and the challenges overcome. Also, from the text I was able to see that African Americans were not the only ones who faced prejudice and discrimination. So many people, me included, tend to not think about what woman, disabled people, and many other races have gone through to earn the same rights as everyone else. This class really opened my eyes and let me see how I was not seeing the “whole picture” and was not educating myself to help others. I am a Caucasian female and did not notice discrimination or hate around me due to the fact that I...
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...One of the largest controversial topics that is talked about race and diversity throughout America. How to deal with diversity and things that are like this that could affect your life. Not judging a book by its cover is something that every child has heard many times but you don’t realize how life changing it can be if you really do allow yourself to open up and allow other cultures and customs into your life. The definitions of culture is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next. This is something that in America we have a hard time accepting especially as the generations are becoming farther away from their original heritage. In the first three videos from Vanier College in Canada talked to students that were originally from different countries or had a strong cultural influence on their life. These students talked about their interactions that they...
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...Without diversity America would be drab, it is what makes America unique and worth living here. If we had no diversity we would all be uninteresting and stale. Diversity is a hard word to describe because it is dense and has many meanings. Democracy is a great thing but if we had no diversity then we would have no need. We need diversity of thought of mind and of ideas, It helps us acknowledge struggles of others and their personal lives. What is diversity? Diversity is more than just multiple cultures combining into a melting pot of unique racial backgrounds, it is also diversity of thought and ideas.The dictionary definition is “the condition of having or being composed of different elements.” You can elaborate the definition of so much more than...
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...My New Views on Religion Cesar Flores Religious Diversity in America “There is immense diversity within American Christianity—dozens of independent Protestant denominations or sects and various sub-groups within Catholicism—but the predominance of Christianity provides crucial context to any discussion of religious pluralism in the United States... Christianity may still dominate the religious landscape of the United States, but religious pluralism has now become its defining feature,” (Boisi Center 2). Christianity without a doubt has had a great impact on the United States in many different aspects. The Bible has been cited before in presidential speeches numerous times. The Bible has also been used in important events, such...
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...States is considered the most diverse nation in the world compared to 50 years ago. During the past 50 years immigrants from around the world have dramatically changed the landscape of America. From Christianity to Judaism, from Buddhism to Hinduism and a variety of other faiths are found today around the different regions of the United States, such as in our own cities and neighborhoods. Religion in America has many branches, due to its large pool of different belief and multicultural traditions that have developed over time. The signing of the Immigration Act of 1965 by President Johnson was just the beginning of contributing to the end of discrimination toward immigrants (Love-Andrews). Leading to a dramatic change in the way in which immigration functions here in the United States, and by opening “…the borders to another wave of newcomers” (Prothero 3). Before the Immigration Act of 1965 specific ethic groups mainly from Asia, were being limited in the number of immigrants that were allowed to enter the United States. So by the Immigration Act of 1965 the doors to America were once again open for immigrants from around the world no matter what race and religious background they came from (Eck 6). Since then the mass of immigrants came mostly from the Near East, Asia and Latin America, with Latin Americans contributing to the largest group (Lippy 29). “…The revolutions of the 1960’s and thereafter radically challenged traditional sources of authority and transcendent...
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...The mingling of culture in American society is inevitable. A steady influx of immigrants will guarantee this in a century’s time. The possibility of claiming the “American Dream” brings in a lot people from less economically developed countries here on a gamble to better their livelihood. Being culturally diverse is an advantage for America. It opens up possibilities of getting the best of all nationalities and combining them into the hotpot which is our society. I have seen how effective diversity can be. I can honestly say that during my stay with 1st battalion 9th Marines as a Navy Corpsman a few years back that we did not see color. We were all the same, just a different shade of green I remember my Staff Sergeant saying pointing to the...
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...Parillo’s main argument in his second chapter of Diversity in America is that many Americans fall victim to to stereotypes when thinking about a diverse group of people like the Native Americans. Native American depictions in movies like Dances with Wolves (1990) are repeatedly branded as warriors on horsebacks who wear feathers and live in tipis. Although some of these depictions in movies and people’s minds are based on reality, Parillo argues that these depictions represent only a few possible realities of the hundreds of tribes that existed in aboriginal America. Just because a particular tribe hunted buffalo, does not mean that every last native relied on buffalo as a main food source. To support his argument that Native Americans are victims of broad generalizations, Parillo gives examples of how diverse and multicultural these groups of people were to prove to his readers that not all natives were and are the same....
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...Diversity has been the foundation of the United States. Diversity is not limited to race, gender, or religion; it includes age and disabilities as well. I have never thought of those as aspects of diversity. I do see them in that light since taking this course and I now realize the extent of the differences in the population of America. Without that variety our country would not be as magnificent as it is. I, myself, am about as American as I could get. I am a White female of no particular religion. I am neither young nor old. I have no disabilities. I am lucky that I do not suffer from discrimination. I am aware that, despite many advances in society, there is still a fair amount of discrimination in the United States. As we move into the future I hope that education will bring us to a post-racial society. My hope is that all people will learn about all types of lifestyles and through that education fear and hatred will be eliminated. While taking this class I have become aware of many more aspects and depths of prejudice and discrimination than I had ever thought of in the past. I was well aware of race, gender, and religion as aspect of a person that could be discriminated against. I did not, however, think of age as something to discriminate against a person because of. I have learned that there are many places that a person may have a hard time being accepted if they are a little older. Many jobs do not want to invest in a person they do not feel is a long term employee...
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