...Race and Your Community Evelyn Hillard Axia College of University of Phoenix ETH 125: Cultural Diversity In my community in which I live there are a variety of many ethnic groups. When I go outside, and sit on my front porch I can see many ethnic groups communicating with each other. I was born and raised in Inglewood, CA for a while but I moved to Atlanta, GA with my father. I have not live in many cities but the one in which I live are quite different from the one I grew up. Atlanta, GA is the city where I live now. “Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the state of Georgia as well as the urban core of one of the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the United States with a population of 537,958.” Atlanta is also known to have many actors, singers, and music producer that live here. Atlanta once held the 1996 Summer Olympics. Atlanta is the home of the National Football League Atlanta Falcons, National Basketball Association Atlanta Hawks, and Major League Baseball Atlanta Braves. Atlanta is the city to have Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic site, Carter Center, and The World of Coca-Cola Museum. When I was growing up I never paid any attention to how people look and what ethnic group he or she belong in. The community I grew up in was mainly Caucasians and African Americans. We had a few Hispanics that was living in the city but they mainly came in the summer to work. As, I grow older then I realize what ethnic group I came from and was many...
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...slavery and where it has leaded us to today. In this research paper I will write in a first- person account on how human interactions in your community have been radicalized. For my community, I will consider relations within the neighborhood, local government, service groups, clubs, schools, workplace, or any environment of which I am a part of. According to Richard T. Schaefer, Racial and Ethnic Groups (2006), The African Americans presence in the United States began almost simultaneously with permanent White settlement. Unlike most Europeans, however, the African people were brought involuntarily and in bondage. The end of slavery heralded new political rights during reconstruction, but this was short-lived era of dignity. Despite advocacy of nonviolence by leads such as the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights civil rights movement met violent resistance throughout the South. In the mid-1960s, the nation’s attention was diverted to urban violence in the North and the West. Blacks responded to their relative deprivation and rising expectations by advocating Black Power, which in turn met with White resistance. While African Americans have made significant gains, the gap between Blacks and Whites remains remarkably unchanged in the last half century. Religion was and continues to be a major force in the African American community. (Richard T. Schaefer., 2006). The A&E Television Networks (1996-2011) website states, “Slavery in America began when the first African...
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...Introduction In analysis of diversity in my community, the race relations are moderate and tolerable in my neighborhood with exceptions. In recent years diversity has expanded to increase the importance and acceptability in non-controlled environments that allows personal growth in race relations within communities. The fundamentals of exposing oneself to the particulars of race challenges provide an interesting investigation to how current experiences are now different than ten years ago. The review of my neighborhood proves the notion on how promising diversity has changed the local community. Perspectives in Race in the Community Currently living in the suburbs, the neighborhood has a 2 to 1 ratio, in which, the majority is the minority race in the community. In my immediate neighborhood, the experience with my fellow neighbors are a welcoming aspect due to the flexibility of tolerance. The diversified demographics within my community are races from different ethnicity not just black and white but Latinos, Mexicans, Jamaicans, and Japanese. The perspective in my community provides an understanding how diversity enriches the awareness of other cultural lifestyles within the context of interaction with different ethnic groups. Do members of your community look like you? In what ways do they look the same or different? The members in my community are welcoming and thoughtful by projecting respectfulness in sharing the same amenities in the neighborhood without conflict...
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...Race and My Community Lakeysha Talley ETH 125 February 13, 2011 Maudine Johnson Race and My Community Although economic status does not indicate the measure of a person’s heart and people tend to express themselves in a politically correct manner versus their true feelings, income levels penetrate racial and ethnic divides by allowing a variety of people to cohabitate and learn about each other this does not however equate to equality. The members of my community vary in ethnicity and races. In any given day I can go for a walk and see Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Black, and White people. I can recall always thinking that my prior hometown of New York City was a melting pot and although it was home to many ethnic groups and races. There was a definite lack of melting because most groups lived quite segregated. I can remember thinking to myself when I moved south to North Carolina that I would likely encounter racism. My time of eight years spent here has rendered those thoughts to be true. I am older and wise enough to know that the location of a person bears no weight in the content of his or her character. In my apartment building there are people who look like me as well as people who do not. The population of Raleigh as of 2010 was 394,744 and the majority of the people are White at 61.8%, Black or African American at 29.6%, American Indian and Alaskan Native at 06%, Asian at 3.9%, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander N/A, Some other race...
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...Race and My Community Ethnic and racial issues continue to exist in many communities today. Before I took this class, I thought that race and ethnicity meant the same thing. After reading chapter one of the required text book for this course, I found out that they have very different meanings. I believe that, as a minority, no matter where you move to or what town you decide to make your home, whether it is temporary or permanent, you will encounter some form of ethnic and racial issues. The meaning of ethnicity is a group set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns. On the other hand, race is described as a group that is socially set apart because of obvious physical differences. As an African American, I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, in an all-Black neighborhood, and lived there until around my mid 40’s. I moved to the South Suburbs of Chicago, first to Harvey, and lived there for about four years before moving to where I now currently reside in South Holland. I lived in Harvey, Illinois, for about three years. It is a town dominated mainly by African Americans. According to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau statistics, Harvey, Illinois, is home to 75.8% African Americans and 19.0% Hispanics. The White population of Harvey is only 10.0% (State and County Quick Facts, 2010). There is a lot of crime that goes on in Harvey within the African-American neighbordhoods, and I believe that it is partly due to the environment...
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...Race in My Community ETH-125 December 4, 2011 Mamie Tapp Race in My Community The city of Columbia, South Carolina seems to be diverse enough like any other metropolitan area in the Unites States. From the outside looking in you may think that the cultural diversity in this city is leveled, fair and consistent; nevertheless there are several political, financial and racial factors that display a different truth. Anyone with little knowledge of this city perhaps will think that fairness in the marketplace and job sites is impartial; clearly that is the apparent view. Some racial issues for my thesis are connection with problems among Hispanics, Whites and Black Americans. The infrastructure of the city is evidently diversified among these three races; they each display their interest in the community in a very particular way. The representation of willful racial segregation is evident among those groups, and sometimes to the extent where hate and racial crimes are committed. From the financial perspective, the city is mostly influenced and control by the white population, Black Americans are the secondary driving factors with little influence by the Hispanic community and other minorities such as Asian Americans and Middle East descent citizens. During the months that I have lived in Columbia I have noticed that the majority of the citizens do not look like me. Growing up I was part of a largely Hispanic community in Miami, FL and the influence of Hispanics...
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...Race and My Community This paper is about the different races in my community. How the races treat one another being leaders, business owners and people of the community. Most communities are made up of different races and this paper will tell you about my community. I have lived in my community for twenty- four years and it is a small community, where everyone that lives in the community knows one another personally or socially. Some people look like me which I am White American. Also, some people are different and they are African American, Hispanic American, Native American and Asian American. In my community there is White American, African American, Native American and Asian American owned businesses, also the leaders of my community are made up of different races. The leaders of my community treat people who are like me the same as the other people who are different. I have not experienced or read of any of the leaders discriminating against anyone in the community. The people of my community are friendly to everyone in the community; it is a very close community. When people see each other in town they are always polite. But in the past there seemed have been crimes against African Americans. According to an article in the newspaper while researching for any racial incidents in my community, I found out apparently in nineteen hundred and forty-six there was four African American sharecropper’s that were lynched at the Moore’s Ford bridge which is still unsolved (Milligan...
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...Race and My Community James Dutcher ETH 125 1/30/11 Andrea Solomon Minorities face trials and tribulations associated with being a minority in a country with a dominant white race. Being able to overcome these trials and tribulations makes them a stronger person, in my eyes. People do not understand what it is like growing up being an outsider to the dominant race. Everyone comes to the United States with an idea of having a better life; they do not know the adversity they are going to face until they get to the United States. Many people feel like the minorities are coming to the United States taking all the jobs from the citizens. If people would worry about how they are taking their job for granted instead of focusing on the people that are taking their jobs, they might be able to keep their jobs. The minorities are taking the jobs because they are willing to work harder. Can you blame the boss who is going to take the harder worker out of the two employees? Community leaders have a huge voice in my community. I can see where the difference in race and how they treat people. I hope they do not do it on purpose, but they do treat different races differently. The rich areas of town have nicer schools and have better education. Programs have been developed for kids who live in poverty stricken areas and problem neighborhoods. The Boys and Girls club has been introduced in my community in 1990 (Boys and Girls Club South Central Kansas, 2011). This year they just built a...
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...Race and Your Community Keisha Bullock ETH/125 July 3, 2011 Margie Molnar Race and Your Community African Americans in my community cannot go into Arab or White owned stores without being followed around. The owners are always under the assumption that they are going to steal from them. Most of the people that live in my community are African Americans. There are a few White Americans who recently moved into the community and they appear to have no problems with living around so many African Americans. The members of my community for the most part do look like me. We all have kinky hair with dark skin, and our children of African American Parents. Our facial features resemble each other with having a round or oval shape face. There are some people in my community whom we would consider to be mixed because one parent may be African American while the other is White American. The leaders in my community treat people like me with love and respect. The leaders in my community look like me and are trying to make things better in the community for the younger generation of kids so that they have parks and community centers to be able to go to and play without having to worry about being gun down by senseless gun fire of the street gangs. I have never heard of or seem the leaders in my community treat people differently because they are not African American. They try and give just as much to them as they would anyone else. My work manuals contains information about people...
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...Race and My Community ETH/125 Race and My Community Throughout this class we have learned about many different cultures and many religions. Some of the cultures I have learned valuable information about, and there are other cultures that has peeked my interest. When we talk about cultural diversity in our community there is one major group that stands out in my mind, and it is not a group that is covered in this class. They tend to stay to themselves, very religious, and extremely family oriented. They are the largest diversity group that we have in the area, they are the Amish. The community that I call home is a little town called Highland, Minnesota. The population in this quiet, very serine town is about 50 or so. In light of this fact I have chosen to consider the entire Fillmore County as my community. The population of Fillmore County is 96,975 as of 2009. 98.7% of the population is white, whereas the other largest group is Hispanic/Latinos with .08% of the population, then fallows African American with .04%, Asian Americans at .02%, and Native Americans at .01% (US Census Bureau, 2010). Another group that I want to address also; however, the statistics are for the whole state of Minnesota. The Amish have a population in Minnesota of 2835 and have 12 different settlements with 21 church districts (Young Center for Anabaptist & Pietist Studies, 2010). Although in our area none of the groups appear to live in “mini-communities.” They are equally dispersed throughout...
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...Race and Your Community Racism is an issue that people have to deal with on a daily basis. It is a topic that a lot of people do not like to address but something that we know exists. I have lived in Millbrook, Alabama, a city outside of Montgomery, Alabama for all of my life and since I can remember the racial relations have been fine. I am sure that everything is not 100 percent but we live in the same community with no problems. In this Cultural Diversity class, I learned that discrimination is not limited to just race. I learned that a person may experience discrimination because of their gender, their religion or even their choice of clothing, just to name a few. There are people in my community who look like me. I am an African American and there is a good representation of African Americans in Millbrook, Alabama. The majority race in my community is the Caucasian race and there are Hispanics represented in my community too. The Caucasian race looks different from me because of the color of their skin and the texture of their hair. The Hispanics in my community look different from me by the color of their skin, hair texture and the language that some of them speak. There is no one neighborhood that only has one race in it. There is some representation of all of the races in the majority of the neighborhoods. Although we are not the majority, we are not the minority. If you come to visit, you may be surprised at how well all the races do get along...
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...Race and Your Community Final Project: Race and Your Community Racial and ethnic issues exist in most communities. The community in which I live, Red Wing, Minnesota, has been the immigration and relocation destination of Hispanics and African Americans over the past 10 years, and a Native American reservation is located less than 10 miles from the city. All three of these groups have contributed to Red Wing’s economy, workforce, services, and housing. I will be analyzing the influence that race has on Red Wing in terms of neighborhoods, employment, and other environments with which I am familiar. I will also be comparing myself to others in the community and examining our differences and similarities in regard to lifestyle, culture, background, and community acceptance. I will not only unveil racism and inequality within Red Wing, but I will also give examples to prove that the City of Red Wing takes these matters very seriously and is taking immediate and effective steps to both embrace diverse ethnicities and educate the community about diverse cultures in hopes to promote tolerance and acceptance. The population of Red Wing, last recorded in July, 2007 at over 15,000, is made up of 93% White Non-Hispanics, 2.6% American Indians, 1.3% African Americans, 1.3% Hispanics, 0.8% two or more races combined, and 0.5% other races. Of the 15,000 residents, 1.3% are foreign born, a low percentage compared to the 5.3% foreign born residents living in the entire state of...
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...Race and My Community ETH150 7/23/2010 I have a very different perspective of what I consider a community. I am married to a soldier and I work for the military as a civilian contractor. Ours is a community formed out of a single commonality, the military service of ourselves or our loved ones, and a deep love for the country, so vast and accepting of new people, cultures, traditions, and religions. Brought together to protect the very right to display all these differences and even the ability to speak out against those who serve to protect you. We are wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, children, and friends; we love our soldiers equally and believe the person standing next to “our” soldier is his/her brother, regardless of the color of their skin. The color of one’s skin has no bearing on their ability to be my husband’s battle buddy, to have his “back” when he needs it, and my husband would have theirs. The diversity in the military only enriches the lives of those involved, bringing a fresh new perspective to someone who has gone through multiple deployments, bringing comfort to those left behind. For no matter how different we look, all our soldiers look the same when they put on that uniform, and all the families will proudly display a yellow ribbon for deployed service members and wave those flags when they come home. The members of my community all look alike yet look very different, we are military families. We are made up of all races, religions, and social-economical...
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...Race and Your Community Brandy Dunlap (Logsdon) ETH/125 October 6, 2011 Steven Zitar Race and Your Community When I look around in my community, I see people of all different races and cultures. In our community we have India, Hispanics, Blacks, Africans, White, and many more. How do we define race and diversity in our community? To start with we look at race, there are two ways of defining race one is that of an ethnical, tribal, or national stock or as any class or group, esp. of persons, considered as a class apart. Diversity is defined as essential differences or variety. In the community I live in we treat people differently, they look at a person and think oh they look different than me or you so let’s not talk to them or treat them with respect. I look at a person beyond that. I was taught that we all bleed the same color; in fact people of a different race are the same as I am. People judge people from their looks rather than what they are really like. Our community looks at other races as if they have a disease; they also look at you as if you are from another planet. Many of the people in my community get upset that many of the people from a different country get so much handed to them. According to the 2010 Census white alone is still the numerically and proportionally the largest major race in the United States. In the city that I live in white the majority of the population; with only 32.22% graduating from high school (population age of 25+). I look...
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...Final Project: Race and your Community LaTonya Vallejo-Geoino ETH/125 July 18, 2010 Deborah Arnold In the community where I live we have so many different races. I am very proud to be a part of the African American community. I believe that we have come a long way and will continue to accomplish the dreams that our ancestors had for their children and their children’s children. We are a testament to the blood sweat and tears of the ones who came before us and though I believe we have come a long way we still have obstacles to achieve. When I look around my community I see many people who look like me. There are different races of course but in my specific community most people resemble me. I did not know when we first moved here that the area in which we were moving was predominately “black”. Had I known this I’m not sure if I would have moved here. My children are biracial and I would like to raise them in a more diversified community. One in which they are able to see people who look a lot like them or they are in a situation to which there are people who are really willing to accept them without stereotypes. From what I have always heard and have seen for myself is that people usually gravitate towards people who look more like who they identify themselves to be. According to the 2000 U.S Census report there were 188,660 people living in Columbus Georgia, 50.3% were white, 43.9% were black and Hispanics made up 4.5%. As I go to different parts of Columbus I notice...
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