...The Multiethnic Placement Act (MEPA) as amended by The Interethnic Adoption Provisions (IEP) of 1996 removed and revised language that is potentially confusing from MEPA and specified discrimination is not to be accepted. The IEP was presented as a solution to the controversy about the best interests of the child, transracial adoption, same-race placements, and permanency for children. In addition, IEP specified and required a State Plan of withholding federal funds from states and foster/adoption organizations and gave individuals the right to file complaints in federal court in violation of the Act. Although this legislation, may be viewed as a marked improvement by Congress, minority children descent of African Americans, Native Americans,...
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...has been accepting of people from all over the world. It has peacefully produced a multiethnic society by creating a new American culture that unites us all. Therefore, it should be mandatory for new immigrants to learn English because it’s the common ground and unifier of our diverse community. Non English speakers in America are also burdened with many challenges, limitations and negativity. While ethnic and racial issues arise in nations all over the world, the U.S. succeeded at peacefully bringing together people of different races, religions, and backgrounds into one culture because we are unified by the English language. America has become a melting pot because we’ve forged a new culture that unifies people from all different backgrounds. According to Arthur Schlesinger, in his article “The Cult of Ethnicity” the point of America wasn’t to preserve old cultures but to forge a new, American culture, and there lies the secret to how America prospered. As Hector St. John de Crevecoeur admired the diversity of the settlers in America in the 18th century when, he realized that “here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men” (Schlesinger 1). America has avoided ethnic tension that is constantly breaking up nations by finding common ground in the way we communicate. It is these commonalities that makes us relatable to one another and escape the divisiveness of a multiethnic society. George Washington once said that immigrants would “get assimilated to our...
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...Article Review- Emanuella Garcia SOCI 201-DO1 The article that I read about is called the School-Based Groups to Support Multiethnic Sexual Minority Youth Resiliency: Preliminary Effectiveness. This article was very interesting to read and I really enjoyed it. This article was basically about the youth which was called the sexual minority youth (SMY). This group of youth faces many changes and challenges in their life because they are different from the rest of the youth. These teenagers in the program worry about their sexual and gender identities. A group of people about these groups of teenagers and this dealt with the Affirmative Supportive Safe and Empowering Talk (ASSET) and a group called LGBTQ. The study basically did the experiment on a multiethnic sexual minority youth group of people. The study showed the self-esteem, the coping of group activity at baseline, and social connectedness in the completion of the ASSET intervention study. The models in the study showed that self-esteem and proactive coping increased a lot in every subgroup that was in the study. The social connectedness stayed the same through the whole experimental study. The sexual minority youth is a very vulnerable population in the youth community and they are at risk a lot of times. Most of their risks comes from mental and emotional health. This group is basically the homosexual youth and they have a harder time than the heterosexual teenagers. These teenagers have a hard time coping in society...
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...Should people who are biracial self-identify themselves as multiethnic? Based on the 2010 Census, the total U.S. population increased by 9.7 percent since 2000, and many multiple-race groups increased by 50 percent or more. (para. 2). Being that the Census allows you to identify more than one race caused the increase of multiple-race by 50 percent. I do believe that people who are biracial should self-identify themselves as multiethnic because they should be proud of who they is, embrace their heritage, and feel more open-minded, and experts from the New York Times and Boston College agrees with me. My biracial cousin, Maria, whose mother is black and father is white always feels as if she has to choose one side while being around them. She’s...
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...Benchmark Assignment – Heritage Assessment Benchmark Assignment – Heritage Assessment When clinically assessing patients in care settings, it is paramount for health professionals to elicit pertinent information that could be crucial for delivery of care. This is particularly important in the United States because the increasing diversity in racial and ethnic composition of the population has presented cultural challenges that care givers must navigate to provide culturally competent service. Cultural competence during delivery of care requires sensitivity to the cultural, social, and linguistic needs of patients (Betancourt, Green, Carrillo, 2002). As a consequence, care providers need cultural assessment tools that will enable them to elicit sensitive racial and ethnic information. The Heritage Assessment Tool provides care givers with such a tool. This paper examines the application of this tool on three different cultures and discusses its usefulness in planning for the maintenance, protection, and restoration of the health of diverse cultures. Three families of Mexican American, European American, and African American heritages were assessed using the Heritage Assessment Tool. The tool consists of 29 questions that determine how deeply an individual identifies with a certain tradition and answers to the questions provide cues on patients’ health traditions. The tool is based on the understanding that all patients are unique cultural beings, with personal health...
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...Nedim Cano GS 150 Unit Essay 2 Cultural Globalization Culture, Identity, and Globalization, for quite sometime, has been the topic of discussion. Generally culture is perceived as “the way of life” of a person, from language, imagination, arts, music, patterns of eating, and images such as dress and conceptions of beauty are all added into the set of norms, beliefs and values that form the culture. It is important to understand identity because we are faced with the challenge of accepting and appreciating other culture systems in order to avoid ethnic nationalism and hostility. Everyone has a natural idea of what cultural identity is, just like anybody else I can tell you about my background and where I come because of the ideas I adapted growing up in life. But the change in awareness is that I can identify my self as a Bosnian American because I understand the shared beliefs and behaviors of the people that raised me. While changes in cultures are ongoing and inevitable, the change in understanding globalization has facilitated a greater transfer of ideas for me from both Bosnia and the United States. These concepts manifest themselves to my culture because it creates the idea that norms and practices can be shared amongst each other. Whether one lives in the United States, China, or Bosnia and Herzegovina, globalization is having a profound affect on how people live their lives. In order for you to understand how globalization has helped me better understand my culture...
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...In order for a school counselor to achieve a multiethnic perspective, the school counselor has to be willing to understand his or her own ethnic identity. The article Ethnicity and Family Therapy discussed an ethnicity training study that helped participants monitor their own reactions and increase their sensitivity to others. As I read the study, I reminisced about my multicultural class in the school-counseling program. Numerous times in that class, I became frustrated because every time the topic of race and ethnicity surfaced, there was a lack of participation in the discussion. Usually, the students of color were the ones involved in the class discussion. In my opinion, the silence that became present after a student of color shared their experiences represented lack empathy from the...
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...prospered as a country. Also, there are many non-Europeans that are very strong in the political field. Take Barack Obama for example. He beat George W. Bush in the 2008 polls, and since then he has made some improvements to the U.S. Some examples of those are ending the war in Iraq, which was a very smart choice. Another example is the health care reform. This helped people with Medicare have more benefits and less of a cost. Also, almost all of America has abandoned the fact that ethnic diversity is something to worry about. Clarence Page mentioned that in his article, “Still fighting an old culture war.” Buchanan says that our nation “Born a Western Catholic republic being transformed into a multicultural, multiracial, multilingual, multiethnic stew of a nation that has no successful precedent in the history of the world.” This is not true. The USA has only improved in the last 5-6 years and has been successful since almost the beginning. There is another reason why Buchanan is wrong in that statement, and it is my second argument. If we have more racial and ethnic differences, then we can better communicate with other countries. For example, if we want to communicate with China about trade, we have people that would be able to fluently communicate with them. Also, we can better learn about other countries through our ethnic differences. We can learn about their living habits, likes and dislikes, or communication skills. This can help us with communicating with other countries...
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...RELATIVISM AND MORALITY Week 2 Assignment Sarah Knight SOC120: Introduction to Ethics and Social Responsibility Prof. Thomas Reeder November 4, 2013 Relativism and Morality Moral choices are conducted on a daily basis, by every culture, which can be viewed on an ethical scale of right or wrong, by other cultures. In her writing of “Some Moral Minima”, Lenn E. Goodman views several aspects of morality and relativism, and argues that certain things are just wrong. In presenting my own morals, I agree with this statement; however, pondering the image, that only one accurate ethic exists and that we may be able to find universal moral requirements and arrive at a multiethnic agreement on issues presented by Goodman is a parable. In this paper, I will state my opinion on challenges Goodman presents to relativism. I will also provide my thoughts on if there are such universal moral requirements. In Goodman’s initial area of discussion of “Some Moral Minima; Genocide, Famine, and Germ Warfare (Goodman, L.E., 2010)”, she states “Genocide targets individuals as members of a group, seeking to destroy a race, a culture, a linguistic or ethnic identity (Goodman, L.E., 2010)”. I reflect back to after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were made on The United States. The threat of germ warfare became a very real aspect of war for our nation. Governmental groups, that we were at war against, were considering the decision to use this type of weapon in order to defeat their...
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...We live in an evoling multiethnic and multicultural society. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, approximately 36.3 percent of the population belongs to a racial or ethnic minority group. The U.S. Census bureau predicts that the U.S. is projected to become a majority-minority nation for the first time in 2043. California, New Mexico, and Texas are already a majority-minority states reflecting a facial shift, (Frey, 2013). With the growing diversity, today’s social workers are going to need effective training in cultural competence in order to address the needs, identify the barriers and issues regarding diversity of their clients. The steps in the Generalist Intervention Model (GIM), engagement through follow-up are based on the social...
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...characteristics categorizing a specific race are frequently discovered in others, as well, only emphasize that there are no obvious difference between races from the point of biological meaning. Cultural differences characterize an ethnic group. Occasionally, what sets a group apart is physical characteristics and national origin and makes them particularly dissimilar from each other. Schaefer (2006) stated “Despite these difficulties, belief in the inheritance of behavior patterns and in an association between physical and cultural traits is widespread. It is called racism when this belief is coupled with the feeling that certain groups or races are inherently superior to others” (pp. 12-13). The United States is such a multiracial and multiethnic country, people with clear social uniqueness are not acknowledged. These concepts are important to United States society because it can be of help evenly to balance the rights selected dominant groups have, that are refused to subordinate groups, therefore eliminate the conflict. Pluralism will allow several groups to coexist with no subordinate and dominant separation letting minorities’ liberty to embrace their cultural without prejudice. References Schaefer, R.T. (2006). Racial and Ethnic Groups (10th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall. |Week 1 CheckPoint: Defining Race and Ethnicity...
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...The Crimean crisis is an ongoing international crisis involving Russia and Ukraine. Most developments apply to the Crimean peninsula, formerly a multiethnic region of the Ukraine comprised of the (now defunct) Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the administratively separate municipality of Sevastopol; both are populated by an ethnic Russian majority and a minority of both ethnic Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars. The demographics of Crimea have undergone dramatic changes in the past centuries.[a][b][c][41] The crisis unfolded in late February 2014 in the aftermath of the Ukrainian revolution, when—after months of protests by Euromaidan and days of violent clashes between protesters and police in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev—the Ukrainian parliament held a vote to impeach the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.[42][43] However the vote failed to reach the three-fourths majority required to impeach a President according to the Constitution of Ukraine.[44][45] Russian President Vladimir Putin said President Yanukovych was illegally impeached and that he regards him as Ukraine’s legitimate president.[46][d] This was followed by the interim appointment of the Yatsenyuk Government as well as the appointment of a new Acting President of Ukraine, Oleksandr Turchynov—seen by Russia as "self-proclaimed"—in a "coup d'etat".[46][e][f][g] Beginning on 26 February, pro-Russian forces gradually took control of the Crimean peninsula. Russia claimed that the uniformed men were local self-defense...
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...The gospels put emphasis on Jesus’ religious meaning, it is to inspire life giving faith in the readers. There are the Synoptic Gospels and then there is the Gospel of John. The Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke) are three versions of the same sayings or incidents of Jesus life. They follow the same order of events in narrating Jesus’ public ministry. All four concentrate exclusively on the last phase of Jesus’ life, the period of his public ministry when his teachings both attracted devoted followers and created bitter enemies. Matthew: It tells the story some what differently, avoiding any implications that Jesus made have had limited powers and stating merely that Jesus “did not work many miracles there”. In Matthew, Jesus first public act is to deliver the sermon on the mound demonstrating his authorities as a teacher, upholding and interoperating the Mosaic Law, He also represents Jesus’ birth and ministry as fulfilling prophecies from the Hebrew Bible. Matthew betrays Jesus as a greater Moses who demands a higher righteousness unlike Mark and Luke. All four concentrate exclusively on the last phase of Jesus’ life, the period. Mark: Marks gospel for instance seems to consist a string of incidents, anecdotes, and sayings that are very loosely connected to one another. Mark, is the first Gospel, who was stitched together of previously isolated oral units, individual episodes illustrating Jesus words and deeds. According to Mark, Jesus first act was to drive...
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...Because of this, the readers’ perception of what fueled the trials to start with is flawed. Her multiethnic background, ignored by Miller, allowed her to come up with her elaborate confession that was viewed by accusers as evidence of witchcraft conspiracy in Salem (Breslaw 23). By deleting this element, the framework the Salem trials were based on is lost, making the events seem even more unreasonable. As an American Indian, Tituba was integrated in the Puritan society, but also feared and excluded because Puritans believed that Native Americans worshipped the Devil (Breslaw 23). Her position in the community allowed her to understand the Puritan mindset at the time of the accusations, she used this knowledge wisely to avoid being executed. Due to the author’s alterations, the savviness of the slave is lost in the play, Tituba is inaccurately...
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...Name: Tutor: Course: College: Date: Cuba Cuba is an island in the Caribbean with many archipelagos. The capital city is Havana. It has over eleven million inhabitants. Cuba has a less population density compared to other Latin nations. Cuba is a socialist state with communist governments. The state operates on socialist principles when controlling its planned economy. The state owns means of production and operates most organizations. Cuba is a multiethnic country with Spanish being the official language (Hemingway 9). Cuba has a dual system of currency with Cuba Pesa being their currency. Every Cuban citizen holds a book called a libreta .with this book, every household has a monthly supply of staple foods at a subsidized cost. Cuba has seen a number of reforms in the agricultural sector with the presidency of Raul. In 2008, the government to increase land usage and efficiency enacted agrarian reforms. At this time, almost 80% of food was being imported. Cuba's major export partners include china, Netherlands, Canada, and Spain. Major exports include tobacco, fish, medical products, and sugar. Imports are food, fuel, and machinery. Nickel is Cuba's most vital resource. As at 2013, its world production was 7% with an estimated 5.5 million tons (Bran 94). Cuba is a member of the United Nations. Cuba’s membership is also the second committee. The second committee of the United Nations deals with issues pertaining to economic growth...
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