...Race and Your Community Debbie Lesser University of Phoenix Race and Your Community Springfield, Virginia is a short ten-minute drive down the interstate from Washington D.C. With a multitude of ethnicities, the Springfield community is rich in its diverse population. Springfield was heralded as one of the first suburban communities formed in the early 1950s when residents of Washington, D.C. began migrating south to a slower pace of life with room to grow ("Springfield Civic Association", 2010). In the two and a half years that I have lived here, I have made my home in Crestwood’s Springfield, a subdivision located in Central Springfield. While a large percentage of the people living in Crestwood’s Springfield are of Hispanic ethnicity, the neighborhood almost depicts the traditional middle class White American community typical in this country. According to my landlord, when the subdivision was first built, the group of migrates that populated the area was likely somewhere in the range of 90 percent White American. Today Crestwood’s Springfield is approximately 40 percent White American, 10 percent Asian American and 50 percent Hispanic American (“U.S. Census Bureau”, 2010). On any given sunny day in the neighborhood, it is not uncommon to see one or two of my neighbors washing their car, walking hand-in-hand with their spouse and children, or working in the yard. The homes are well maintained, with the majority of them having beautifully...
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...of the Hispanic community. Values of the Hispanic/Latino group that we would focus on would be the importance of language, family, and religion. Hispanic/Latino teens respond best to bilingual ad messages—especially from English-language celebrities “who happen to slip in some Spanish” because it mirrors their own usage patterns.” (Cheskin Research, 2006). Research shows that even though Hispanics use every type of media, they do seem to have a special attraction to television and radio. (Sonderup, 2010) Therefore, our campaign would be most effective in this form of media. Language is an important aspect in the Hispanic community. Our campaign should be sensitive to this aspect because a language barrier has less to do with incompetency and more to do with the cultural meanings people attach to their language. “For Hispanics/Latinos in the U. S., Spanish is a key marker of personal, social and political identity. As a result, Spanish-language TV remains important for even those who are fluent English speakers and who regularly watch English-language TV. In communicating with Hispanics, it is not an either/or question but a matter of carefully integrating both languages to best communicate with the Hispanic/Latino consumer in the U. S.” (Tracy, 2004). Because language is an important factor for our campaign, we will make sure to have a bilingual staff, and Spanish and English billboards and commercials. The majority of Hispanics believe...
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...people that lives and visits our great village. “We are a prodominetly white community but, there are a few different races that live in our community”, says Mayor Judy Keifer. Mayor Keifer has also made it real clear that all people are welcome to our community no matter age, race, or sex. “ Although there is not much diversity between races, Grand Rapids, or Gilead as it was known as from1833 to 1868, was founded by a number of diverse races”, as reported by Boy Scout Historian Mark Tolles from Troup 325. Although Grand Rapids is a big hearted community, there are only about 1,002 people that occupy our village. According to the census report of 2000, we have a prodominetly white community at 97.21% but there are other races present African Americans at .20%, Native Americans at .20%, Asian Americans at .40%, and other races at 1.60%. We also have a population of 2.89% that are Hispanic. (Wikipedia, 2011) I believe that the Census is only partially accurate because, from the middle of July to the middle of November we have migrants come to our village with a work Visa to help maintain and harvest our local Pumpkins and Tomato’s, according to Mandon Freeworth a local farmer. Mr. Freeworth stated that he alone hires around 250 Hispanics that can prove that they have a work permit during these months, and two other farmers that he knows hires another 100 people each bringing the total to 450 Hispanics with work permits. Our town keeps everything on hand that our visitors may need...
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...Community Teaching Experience Grand Canyon University: NRS-427V-0501 July 11, 2013 Community Teaching Experience Health education is considered to be one of the major functions of community nurse; it is a great responsibility that requires the nurse to think critically. No longer are the nurses simply accountable for administering medications and following doctors’ orders. In essence, the nurses are also educators that play a very crucial role in health promotion and assuring that the public is taking preventive measures. Although, public speaking isn’t my best attribute, I strongly believe it is integral part of nursing; as it is one of the avenues via which the nurse enables the client to make informed decision regarding one’s health practices and lifestyle choices. While obesity has become a priority healthcare issue of our nation; nurses, as community educators, share a critical role in increasing awareness of obesity and its detrimental effects. The emphasis should be focused on educating the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, such as healthy diets, and incorporating daily physical activity regimen. The importance of healthy lifestyle choices should be addressed to people of all ages. The public must be encouraged to develop more physically active routine and reduce their dietary intake of processed, high calories, high fat foods and highly sweetened beverages. Epidemiological Rationale Obesity has become a major health concern, and the numerous comorbidities...
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...Being raised mostly by my hardworking father has influenced my perspective in life. From overcoming the challenges of losing my mother at a young age, I have learned to mature and value what I do have. Although, growing up I did not have a traditional family I learned to cope with my feelings and thoughts of hopelessness and put my energy on things I could change. However, at first my experiences with change were not the best. I often underestimated my abilities because I did not believe I had the capability to achieve them. My transition to High school was hard to accommodate too since I did not have my mother guiding me through it. I struggled to keep up with my grades my first year. I realised my english reading skills were lower than average. At home, my dad's english was minimal at that time and he depended on me to translate for him most of the time. Reading out loud in front of a class was my fear, I usually studdard or my accent made it hard to understand. I felt ashamed and believed I was never going to improve, which this barrier stopped me from accomplishing things I could have. However, I began to look at it in a bright side. For the first time, my sophomore year I felt comfort and hope when I stepped into Latino Club. I was welcomed and motivated to continue improving my abilities because I was capable of succeeding....
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...From 1980 and 2010 my hometown Lynwood experienced residential patterns, where class and race intersected creating a new atmosphere when Hispanic minorities arose causing racial stereotypes to be imposed on my education while living there. Over the decades from 1980 to 2010, Lynwood experienced class shifts: from middle to poor and working class. The same social patterns that Hunter observed in the Seventh Ward, including urban decay and gentrification, occurred in my neighborhood through the years (Hunter). In LA County, education and class played a huge role in creating these patterns that reflects my city. For example, 14.48% of the population would obtain an education below high school, 14.39% obtained a high school diploma, and 19.86%...
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... What information about race and ethnicity in the United States has helped you better understand or relate to specific minority groups? Learn many things from participating and reading the discussion questions from my classmates about race and ethnicity. Coming from Hispanic family that has treated Individuals for what they are, not their skin color learned that many races were discrimininated. This class has taught me that the Media has influence by their negative reporting human been race and culture. How could you use this information in your job, community ( e.g. church, school, group, Family), or a potential job. In my church group have talked many of my friends about the different race and culture that we have in our community. Not only we have Hispanics, not only we have a Mixture of Asian groups and other culture. Some of them were amazed that they thought Hispanic was the only ones that lived here in our community. Educating my peers that the website on U.S. Census will inform them race population in their community and just by talking to your neighbors learn about each other. Education plays a key role in today’s society, and become better citizen. If you were to be involved in politics or in the Human Resources department of a company, how do you suggest your peers (e.g. citizens, co-worker) prepare for changes in race and ethnicity? ...
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...Being Hispanic motivates me to push myself every day. I want to be the first from my family to graduate from high school and head to college. I feel that getting an education is the right thing to do, so I can give back to the community where I was raised. Having a drive towards my education and representing my ethnicity has made me live differently from those around me. Being Hispanic is very important to me because I’m representing an ethnicity, which is often torn down by others. I know that I represent not only myself but also my Hispanic background, which has shaped me into who I am. My culture gives me strength to keep moving forward in order to break stereotypes. I represent myself as a Mexican-American, which drives me to be a role model for younger individuals who feel as if they...
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...people become more and more tolerable to the differences we all have to bring to the table. This will only become easier with time as we all learn to accept the differences that we bring to the table. The benefits to living in a diverse community and society are that people are able to learn about other cultures and possibly be able to pick up one or more things from one another. When people are not familiar with other cultures or even places around the world they may feel a bit out of place and afraid when they do come to meet them, but this can all be avoided by being a bit more open minded and learn from others. Learning from a Diverse Society I have been taught the idea that everyone is equal, but I have finally found the meaning behind the saying. There had been some confusion in my eyes on whether or not everyone was the same, but in the end I find that we are all the same with different upbringings and possibly different culture. I would consider the society to be a very diverse melting pot in which we see in the larger cities. I consider there to be a large mixture of different cultures in people in large metropolitan areas such as Las Vegas, NV, Los Angeles, New York, New York, to name a few. I did find that learned something from my culture. In the activity where we have a map of a major U.S. city, it shows on how...
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...Two risk factors that are immediate and most prevalent in my community (college-aged hispanic/latino youth) are substance abuse (drugs and alcohol) and suicide due to mental illness or other causes. These factors can be prioritized by under-aged drinking, minors in possession and adults purchasing alcohol for a minor. Suicide prevalence and suicide ideation for Hispanic/Latino students is higher in the U.S than those of non-Hispanic descent (Cash & Bridge,2009). The “criteria” could fall under overwhelming stress from a broken home/parental issues, overdose with intention to commit, financial struggle or identity crisis, fear of being “outed” as a queer individual among other contributing factors. Another risk factor that coincides with the...
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...counter parts, Hispanic males and non-Hispanic males. The increase percentage of African American incarcerated for the same crime a Hispanic male or non-Hispanic male may have committed is unbelievable. I chose this topic because there are a lot of factors why African American men between the ages of 25-29 is incarcerated. We must look at racial profiling, where the majority of the time an officer will stop a young black man without cause or provocation. Another issue is the type of community or environment in which an African American man lives in. An African American man who lives in low-income housing tends to attract more attention from police officers. Poverty plays part in incarceration. Education can be a plus or minus for an African American man it depends on how you look at it, meaning if you are not educated or had the chance to finish school, there’s a 50% chance you will commit a crime resulting in incarceration. Ergo, if you are educated and living in an upscale neighborhood, has a job, drives a nice car, you will become a target for the police to stop and frisk you, again checking for crime because you are a young black man. Family also plays a major role why African American men are incarcerated. Most African American household is a single household, where the mother is the breadwinner and the father is absent. An Absentee father leaves the young African American without a role model, which will encourage that young man to look for a role model outside...
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...Hispanic American Diversity ETH/125 Hispanic American Diversity Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Central/South Americans have a lot in common. All Hispanic groups speak primarily Spanish and most immigrate to the United States to provide a better life for themselves and their families. Most Hispanic groups who have immigrated to the Unites States are either escaping political hardships, poor economic conditions, and or looking for better health for their families. Being an immigrant from the Dominican Republic I know how hard it to assimilate to the United States. My family migrated here starting in 1980’s. I came to this country when I was 7 years old. My mom saw this opportunity as a great one because I was able to start school here and get a great education and become part of the United States. My mom has since become an American Citizen, including myself, and even though we stay true to our roots and our believe, we have accepted the changed that the United States has offered us. Mexican Americans started migrating to the United States in the early 1900’s. In the 1920’s and 1930’s is the time where the larger migrations took place. After the Mexican Revolution of 1910, many Mexicans came to United States because of the political instability and social violence. They came to United States for safety and the economical growth. Even though they live in the United States and the primary language here is English, they stick to their...
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...Father O’Connell explains that he’s worried about his Hispanic parishioners. Many of them work at the packing plant and are undocumented immigrants. They are treated unfairly, work under horrible conditions and it seems as if management knows they are undocumented and use that against the workers. The management and owners would be what Karl Marx describes as the capitalists and the workers are the proletarians. The workers are not yet at the point where they band together and accomplish a change, they are still under the thumbs of the capitalists. I think that the small town I grew up in could be compared to this situation. It doesn’t fit exactly, however, there were a small number of people in charge and they ruled over the town, not allowing any changes they didn’t approve of first, to the point where they hindered progress. The second concept I noticed was social stratification, in the History and Demographics paragraphs, specifically, the description of Lake Elmo and the people who live around there. It perfectly describes how the upper class -- the upper-uppers-- lives in the richest subdivision near Lake Elmo, and the lower-uppers live in Apple Hill. The middle class, the upper-middles and average middles, live in the main part of town along with the working class. The lower class lives in the oldest part of town, near the Gilligan River. This concept is closely related to the social conflict concept in my first paragraph. The situation at the packing plant is...
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...treating large diverse populations. Understanding cultural differences in various populations is crucial to produce positive outcomes. Nurses have a major role in health care promotion. Nurses should be treating the patient as a whole in mind, body, and spirit. This should be included in community treatment too. Individual, family, environment, and community assessments are necessary to provide the care and improve health care outcomes in the community as a whole. The World Health Organization’ s (WHO) definition of community is “a group of people, often living in a defined geographical area, who share a common culture, values and norms which have been developed by the community in the past and modified in the future” (p. 397). For me this means these people generally have the same of similar beliefs and values. Community health is described as “the meeting of collective needs by identifying problems and managing behaviors within the community itself and between the community and larger society” (p. 401). My understanding of community as the client is the care given has the potential to affect the whole community not just one family. Nurses can provide education and treatment in the community in settings such as schools, parks, civil centers, the workplace, and home. The result can be a healthier, stronger community. To positivity affect the community’s health a detailed assessment of the community’s is necessary. The windshield survey is a good resource tool. Living...
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...realize to a degree, humans are the primary concern rather than the root to all madness “Money”. The effects of money has had an impression on the cultural diversity of the United States primary because power played the role of inequality that lead to the destruction of many families of minorities by the majority because of money. Moreover, the United States has overcome barriers to fix the disarray that power has had on individuals to help the citizens to reach out for understanding and answers that has led to the combination of knowledge, awareness and solutions. Let’s examine how! Understanding the history of how the United States met with cultural diversity has helped me to see that through history the effects begin with a negative view and later after harsh treatment was administered; lawmakers examined the outlook of the country to benefit the citizens. Two unique situations were race and gender that had an influential role of the American culture. Race was distinguished between major groups; majority versus minorities. The White Americans are categorized as being the majority and all other races are the minorities. Being an African American minority, I personally had a bias view of other races. I felt as if other races did not experience the turmoil my ancestors experience; however, learning how other races and cultures experience prejudice and injustice, I learned...
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