Citizenship and Diversity 1. Citizenship - the position or status of being a citizen of a particular country, granting you certain rights and responsibilities of the country 2. Racism & Racist - prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior 3. Discrimination - the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex OR recognition
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and universities. Lisa Thomas, PHD, APA representative summed it up nicely, "We know from the literature that oppression, covert and overt racism, and perceived racism can have serious negative consequences for the mental health of American Indian and Alaska native people. The discontinued use of American Indian mascots is a gesture to show that this kind of racism toward and the disrespect of, all people in our country and in the larger global context, will not be tolerated”. With that being said,
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CULTURAL DIVERSITY What is cultural diversity? Diversity is nothing more than a difference from the majority. In any culture there is a majority and many minorities. Culture is a set of norms that set standards for a society of what is acceptable behavior. In every culture there are basic standards for social interaction such as personal space distance, eye contact, amount of body language displayed in public, negotiating style, etc. In America, we stand about eighteen inches apart when engaged
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Gendered Experiences of Racism Monica Purchase Ashford University EDU 639 Professor Jaime Worthington May 13, 2013Racism is an issue that has been discussed for many years. There various cases and even laws against racial profiling. “Our society, among many others, categorizes people according to both visible and invisible traits, uses such classifications to assign behavioral and cognitive traits to these categories, and then applies policies and practices based on these categories that
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Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the Harlem Renaissance had an enormous effect on African American culture, making it the most important literary movement in African American history. However, what conditions led to this development of culture? The Harlem Renaissance was made possible by the Great Migration. Millions of African Americans left the harsh conditions in the South of the United States starting about 1910 in order to seek economic and educational possibilities in the northern cities, as
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Religion and Ethnic Diversity Tracy Kimberly Mosiello ETh /125 November 17, 2013 Dr. Rochelle Holland Religious and Ethnic Groups Roman Catholic The first century of Christianity there was no "Roman Catholicism" as it is today. There was no Protestantism or Eastern Orthodoxy to differentiate it. There was the "one, holy, catholic church" confirmed in the first
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Associate Program Material Diversity Worksheet Answer each question in 50 to 150 words. Provide citations for all the sources you use. 1. What is diversity? Why is diversity valued? Diversity is defined in the dictionary as "the condition of being different." A crucial mistake many people make is to equate diversity with "race" and "culture". They think diversity is about "what Hispanics are like" or "what Europeans are like". “This approach is inherently flawed because it
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Police Service are trying to recruit more female officers as well as more people from minority groups with an aim to have a more diverse workforce who can relate more to the public. Recently, it has been brought up that there is still institutional racism within the Police force, this, as well as many other reasons such as negative stereotyping, informal bias and assumptions from ethnic minority groups themselves are reasons why people from minority groups are less inclined to join. The Police have
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Business Ethics – Term Paper March 21/13 Discrimination Introduction Discrimination is defined as distinguishing something from something else (i.e. don’t hire him because he has no experience). Unjustified discrimination is distinguishing something from something else on a basis that is not justified (i.e. don’t hire him because he is black). The term discrimination commonly replaces the term unjustified discrimination in business, philosophy, psychology and day-to-day community life. In
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Sheel Patel Composition II Professor Stashenko July 2, 2016 Does Affirmative Action Benefit or Penalize You? “You must fail in order to succeed.” This is something that is repeatedly said to students as they prepare to begin their college careers. We encourage failure to remind everyone that no one is perfect and not everything in life will work out exactly the way it is planned. Unfortunately, this may not be having the effect on students that it’s supposed to. In fact, what if the idea of
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