...Elements of Writing Race and ethnicity have played a major role in the events of time in and around the world, from the past to present day. Race ethnicity is what is considered to be a group that is classified by their ethnic traits, backround, and association and in turn causes an inequality among races and while these are still very clear issues within the African American, Asian, and other ethnicities, over time progress has been made in the stop to inequality among these races and different ethnicities. In this paper I will show through the comparing and contrasting of two literary works within our text how race and ethnicity have played a role in society for decades. Country Lovers tells of a forbidden love on a South African farm between a black girl named Thebedi and a white boy named paulus Eysendyck. What’s it Like to be a Black Girl tells of what and how it was to be a black girl and when comparing the two they are both great examples of the difficulty of life between different ethnic backrounds. The poems were written during different time frames What’s it like to be a black girl the more recent and are also both unique stories within their time frame and discuss love or that which is the feeling of love. In both the story and short poem the main characters are black women dealing with racism in some form of way and though many of us hate to admit it, we to have dealt with discrimination just like this in some point in our lives and in Country...
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...I think that race and ethnicity in everyday life in the United States is important, but less so than it used to be. Now that people are being more desensitized to ethnicity at younger ages and everyone is more accepting of people that it is becoming lesser of an issue. Since people are more open about other races and religions that there is not much of a social barrier anymore. Yes, race and ethnicity are important because they help define individuals. When those individuals are in groups of people who could care less about what color they are, because they accept people by character, then I do not think that the topic is relevant. I know that not everyone like every race and ethnicity because of some personal vendetta against them, those people are the ones who are still making it an issue. Race still matters for those who think that some people are more superior to others, or they hold negative stereotypes towards other races. I still think that race and ethnicity are important under certain circumstances. A good example would be in schooling. It is not important in the way that children will segregate those who are different from them, but in the way that it would be a great learning tool for them to experience diversity. The kids would get personal experience with different ethnicities and that would help them break down any sort of social barrier they have in their mind about other races. I know little kids can be weird when it comes to topics like people with different...
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...Defining Race and Ethnicity Chad Moon Ethics / 125 Dr. Collins 8-22-2011 Race and Ethnicity in my terms are very similar in the way that people respond to each of them, but are actually quite different. Race is groups of minorities or majorities that are classified based solely on what physical differences are present. Some examples of race are; Hispanic or Latino, Caucasian, African American, or Asian. Each group is set apart from the rest by physical characteristics such as skin color, eye shape, or other not so noticeable cues. Different societies describe race using different characteristics than other countries, in America the black population is often characterized solely on their darker skin color or height. When comparing my definition of race to the definition of ethnicity there is clearly a big difference between the two. Ethnicity is not how we describe people, rather how we describe the culture from which they get their heritage. We generally describe the culture from the country in which the individual has moved from. A prime example of ethnicity in the United States is the Oriental ethnic group, which is very common in almost all cities throughout America. In larger cities, because of the way America works, you can see different segregations of the cultures such as china town or one that is becoming more and more popular is the temples and places of worship of Islamic ethnicity. The concepts of race and ethnicity are important in the United...
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...Exploring the Ethnic Diversity in Shakira’s Song ( Objection) Literary studies in English Dr. Shanthini Pillai Feras Ismail Ali P61421 Review: Over the ages, humans migrated from place to place. Between 1700s to 1800s have been substantial migrations among the world. One of these migrations was the Latin Americans to United State of America. By the time the number of Latin Americans increased to reach 30 million with different ancestral, cultural background and traditions, those immigrants establish their own heritage, customs, traditions and values to build their own identity. This raises the concept of panethnicity. Panethnicity is a collection of different small identities which form a community. The different ethnicities in panethnic community have similarities in their customs, values, language and music. ( Andrea Bedoya, 2007, P1). Shakira and her family was one of the families who migrate to USA, when she became a famous singer all over the world, she tries to maintain her origins and culture through her lyrics and symbols in her songs. These movements of different origins and parts created diasporas who have to maintain their roots with their origin land, looking for their ancestral land and culture although they have to cope with the new land and culture, Shakira in her song presented these feelings clearly through the music, lyrics, setting, clothes, instruments and dancing. She tries to save her culture through singing. Karim (1998, P2) argued that “diasporas...
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...businesses in order to grow the economy in the significant island country. The island has a wide variety of ethnicities, creating language barriers because of all the different ethnicities Bluegrass Construction Company, Inc. (BCC) hired me, Nik, to study, synthesize, analyze, and prescribe the best business decisions in order to establish a greater presence of our company in Kava. I have decided to implement a decision-making technique to create an appropriate solution for BCC to overcome challenges in our overall goal of establishing a greater presence of our business in Kava. After visiting the island, seeing the problems our company is facing, and knowing where we want to go with our business in Kava, I think the best course of action is to implement brainstorming as our decision-making technique in order to strengthen our presence in Kava. Analysis of Specific Steps in Applying Brainstorming Through my analysis of the island, the disasters and threats it faces and the potential the island has I think the first step and the greatest challenge we face is finding a way to provide education to the island. The biggest hindrance I have found on the island is all the barriers preventing the island to become a nation and work together to grow its economy. To begin the brainstorming decision-making technique we’ll need to elect a team leader and schedule meetings for each ethnicity...
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...approach to understand the analytical challenge posed by such disorder. Starting out by countering the centrality of ethnic identity, it firstly seeks to demonstrate that ethnic identities do not exist primordially, but that they are constructed on weak foundations. Secondly it endeavours to show that where cleavages do exist along lines of cultural difference, simple heterogeneity is insufficient to account for the outbreak of conflict. Next, it moves to underline the fact that more important in explaining civil conflict is whether such conflict is feasible. This is understood both in terms of the perceived capacity of the state and in terms of the viability of insurgency for would-be rebels. A final conclusion will then be expounded that ethnicity is not a central factor, but that it is simply one of a number of strategies under which conflict may be framed in the rare but ultimately requisite circumstances where rebellion is actually feasible. Ethnic identity is not a central factor, firstly, because primordial ethnic differences, per se, are not fixed. Where ethnic identity is defined as “a community of people who have the conviction that they have a common identity and common fate based on issues of origin, kinship ties, traditions,...
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...From Ethnic Conflict to Genocide Individuals are mostly identified by their religion, culture, race and most importantly, their ethnicity. They would be labeled by what country or race they represent. Over the past decades, many ethnic conflicts have occurred and are still occurring in the world today due to political reasoning. When there are at least two ethnic communities called multiethnic or multisectarian, who realize they cannot form their own independent countries, they would change their geographical locations. But there is no guarantee that both ethnic groups will solve their conflicts by moving in different parts of the region. Each ethnic group competes for power, authority, resources and political independence, which lead up to deep conflicts between ethnic groups and even dehumanization. Each ethnic conflict is associated with deep emotions such as hatred, bitterness, resentment, anger and aggression. Political leaders play a significant role in identifying ethnicities. Such leaders commit violent acts for the sake of their group and victimize their followers. There are also political extremists who are only self-concerned and tend to disregard others’ lives through horrific actions. According to political psychologists, extremists have a variety of personal characteristics. They are not mentally sick. They are insane and are capable of evil behavior because they do not have any empathy for anybody. In Milgram’s experiment on power of authority, personality...
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...Ethnicity is a sense of historical, cultural, and sometimes ancestral connection to a group of people who are imagined to be distinct from those outside the group. Ethnic boundary markers are practices or beliefs, such as food, clothing, language, shared name, or religion, used to signify who is in a group and who is not. Examples of these markers include the plain clothing and lifestyles of the Amish and the curly sideburns of male, Orthodox Jews. Nationalism is built off of ethnicity. It is when there is a desire of an ethnic community to create and/or maintain a nation-state, a political entity, located within a geographic territory with enforced borders, where the population shares a sense of culture, ancestry, and destiny as a people. (Guest, 242, 254-255) 6. One of the most studied cultural practices is the ‘Potlach’ ceremony conducted by the Kwaikiutl of the Pacific Northwest. What is this ceremony? and why is it important to Anthropologists and to the study of class and social stratification? (6 pts)...
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...Research Question: How does society influence Hassan’s decision to keep his loyalty to Amir? Annotated Bibliography Cullather, Nick. "Damming Afghanistan: Modernization in a Buffer State." The Journal of American History 89.2 (2002): 512-37. ProQuest. Web. 27 May 2013. This scholarly journal explains that America plans to help Afghanistan to develop their country and also to prevent the local culture, which is influenced by Russian. In the article, Cullather points out that, “Within Afghanistan's government, the impulse to modernize went back to the early twentieth century when tribal and ethnic loyalties were reformed as a national identity.”(5). This shows the importance of the loyalty in Afghanistan culture and can support my topic. Although only a small part of this journal is related to my research question, the ideas and research results could be used as references. Kenneth D. Wann. "Cultural Values and Learning in Afghanistan." Educational Leadership Journal April 1959: 434-454. Print. This article introduces the development of the education of Afghanistan from 1937 when Afghanistan was united under one king to 1959. Kenneth argues, "In modernizing their educational system, the people of Afghanistan are striving toward consistent emphasis upon the enduring elements of their own culture" (434). This article would be useful resource as it demonstrates what the Afghanistan students learned in school and how it changed as time lapses. In addition, Kenneth...
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...interviewer. The problem is that there has been a trend with applications to single out Hispanic/Latino ethnicity. There was a time where the employer would voluntary provide the option to answer the ethnicity background but now it is nearly impossible to find an application that does not state the several ethnic choices to set parameters of the words of “Non-Hispanic” to be checked of such as White (Non-Hispanic) Native American (Non-Hispanic) African American (Non-Hispanic) Asian (Non-Hispanic) Other (Non-Hispanic) Hispanic (Anyone who's ethnic background stems from any of the Latin American, Central American, or South American Countries, Or who's parents share this ethnicity.). This research addresses a concern of why do most employers find it important to whether request the information if one is either of Hispanic background? Employers indicate the information is voluntary and is not to be taken into consideration during a hiring process but through experience it is found otherwise. For example the Internet online application provided by the employer requests that the question of identifying one’s ethnicity will be a voluntary option but then if one does not check the appropriate box indicating at the end of the application the application cannot be submitted. The application is returned to a section highlighted in red with an asterisk informing one that the ethnicity question needs to be checked off in order for the application to be completed and submitted to the employer...
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...There is a widespread tendency for people to favour their own group over another group. This tendency has been variously labelled as ethnocentrism, intergroup bias, in‐group favouritism or in‐group /out group differentiation. It denotes a cultural narrowness in which the ethnically centred individual rigidly accepted those of the in‐group while rejecting those of the out‐group. In other words, Ethnocentrism is the point of view that one's own way of life is to be preferred to all others. Flowing logically from the process of early enculturation, it characterizes the way most individuals feel about their own culture, whether or not they verbalize their feeling. Therefore this essay will discuss what is understood by the term ethnocentrism and show how Ethnocentrism is bad in national politics. Firstly will define what ethnocentrism is, and discuss fully what is understood by the term. Secondly will show how ethnocentrism is bad for national politics. Thereafter a clear and concise conclusion will be drawn. Different scholars have given their understanding of the term ethnocentrism. According to anthropologists, the concept combines the belief that one’s own culture is superior to other cultures, with the practice of judging other cultures by the standards of one’s own culture (Den Van, 1970). Ethnocentrism is also defined as a feeling that one’s own group has a mode of living, values and patterns of adaptation that are superior to other groups. Ethnocentrism is a human universal...
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...Language and ethnicity Language and ethnicity are known to be closely intertwined (Giles &ump; Coupland 1991). However, prior to analyzing interrelation between language and ethnicity I faced the problem of identifying the concept of ‘ethnicity’ itself. Thus, Fishman (1997: 327) points out that ‘ethnicity’ like other notions it is in a close association with, i.e. ‘race’, ‘people’, ‘nation’, ‘nationality’, is not “an exact scientific term”. Therefore it is not clearly defined and thus is open to interpretations (Ibid). In my search I came across a number of rather vogue explanations, and the most common aggregated dictionary definition of ‘ethnicity’ is ‘a belonging to a particular social group that has a common national or cultural tradition’ (MacMillan Dictionary, Oxford Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Dictionary, etc.). Dictionary of Cultural Literacy does single out and include language into the ethnicity definition saying that it is an “identity with or membership in a particular racial, national, or cultural group and observance of that group's customs, beliefs, and language”. However, is language always an inevitable part of one’s ethnicity or the ethnicity of a group? Definitely, the most understandable case of interrelation between language and ethnicity is the one when a person is born and lives on a specific territory which historically had one dominant ethnos and one dominant language, so ethnicity is predetermined by close bound between language and territory (Fishman...
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...Ethno-Religious Conflict The increase in ethnic conflicts around the world is a reality. The conflicts that arise from ethnicity-related factors now are as important as issues that substantially determine the course of international relations, such as political and economic globalization, the balance of power, regionalization, terrorism, and the spread of weapons of mass destruction. Ethnic conflicts can have an important religious dimension. Religion is potentially a very important element of ethnicity; in fact, some ethnic groups have their primary origin in religion. 5 The salience of religion to ethnicity is illustrated in Kashmir. The identification of an ethnic group is determined by common perceptions among its members. Conflict among these groups carries an ethnic quality to it. If there is a primary religious difference among the conflictual parties, ethnic conflict can assume a specifically religious dimension—labeled by Fox as ‘‘ethnoreligious’’ conflicts. 6 Kashmir is a prime example of this type of conflict. There are several definitions of ethnicity, ethnic conflict, and ethno-religious conflict. We have presented some definitions about ethnic and ethno-religious conflicts on which there is a fair consensus. However, there is no consensus among students of ethnic conflict as to the causes of these conflicts. To a certain extent, agreement exists that some combination of economic, political, and psychological factors can explain ethnic conflict...
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...ETHNOCENTRISM IN THE CHURCH TODAY Introduction Ethnocentrism is the act of seeing one’s ethnic tribe better compared to those of the others. This stereotype has with time crept into the religious foundation irrepressibly. Currently, the church is experiencing a wave of ethnocentrism which if not curbed will see a religious waiver. Overall researches locally and internationally prove that ethnocentrism is an ant to the timber-pillar supporting the church; with time it will eat into it and cause a major downfall. Discussion... Manifestation and Effects of Ethnocentrism Of foremost challenge is that ethnocentrism brings about division within the ellipsis of church organizations. The latter is propelled by the fact that ethnic groups feel superior to the others thus the social interaction is completely cut off leading to eventual enmity. Therefore this aspect affects both the physical and spiritual growth and development of the church hence leading to religious dormancy. Christians befallen by this destructive temptation end their fellowships paralyzing the advancement of the gospel towards each other and even to the world outside. Division of individual ethnic groups causes disunity within the body of Christ giving the devil a leeway to cause havoc. As time goes on the lack of unity as previously quoted earths up enmity amongst the church elders a viral vice which downs to the church members. It’s eminent that it is not once that we’ve seen scenes of churches split up...
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...(Handelman, 2011). Modernization challenged traditional religious, national, and tribal identities by undercutting traditional ethnic practices and values. A huge part of current modernization is globalization, which pose an even greater challenge (Handelman, 2011). Globalized culture can create a backlash and increase tensions between neighboring communities as not everyone can ethically identify with each other. It may be argued that the spread of western world brands will eventually reduce or eliminate the differences of dress, food, and customs that currently separate different ethnic groups. (Handelman, 2011) What are some reasons that might explain why major civil strife related to ethnicity has declined in the last 10-15 years? Some reasons that might explain why major civil strife related to ethnicity has declined in the last 10-15 years are statecraft, constitutional arrangements and external intervention (Handelman,...
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