998 Search Results for Ethnicity
In order for all people to survive and prosper in America they must work together, and the more that they distance themselves because they feel as though they have to hold onto their traditions the more difficult it becomes for people to accept the Continue Reading...
However, most of them have gradually resigned themselves to their situation and are enduring the circumstances in the best way possible.
Generational Groupings
Perhaps the most appropriate way to analyze the Soviet society in the post-Soviet perio Continue Reading...
Over the course of time, this will offer a first step in addressing these challenges. (Smith, 2008) ("Affordable Care Act," 2010)
Conclusion
Clearly, minorities are not receiving the same kind of treatment for health care services in comparison wi Continue Reading...
The predominating media sentiment according to Ransby was that of 'blaming the victim,' or blaming the impoverished residents for being insufficiently prepared for the disaster. Ransby suggests that the fortitude shown by residents, even in the abse Continue Reading...
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Studies that continue to seek a link between childhood SEP and adult BMI have tended to use "representative national samples," the authors explain. There is "regional variation in the SEP-adiposity relationship," they explain, that "may make a di Continue Reading...
In the article, Swarns determined the racial animosity between black Americans and Hispanics as primarily motivated by the economic inequalities and differences that emerge in the community wherein both groups are dominantly located. The most expli Continue Reading...
universities and graduate schools offer courses or whole major programs of study in ethnically or culturally specific areas. Examples include African-American studies and Asian studies. This research explores whether students who identify with the e Continue Reading...
Taking a Knee and the Cultural Problem at the Heart of Race
Introduction
The recent riots over the death of George Floyd has stemmed not so much from the killing of an unarmed black man by police but rather from the perception that the black communit Continue Reading...
While no one is immune from police brutality, statistics show that African-Americans are far more likely to be the victims of police brutality than are whites. As Lopez notes, “Black people accounted for 31 percent of police killing victims in Continue Reading...
Demographics are changing rapidly and dramatically in the United States. People are living longer, but the ethnic composition of the senior age cohort is not the same as it is for the young. While the young generations are becoming more ethnically di Continue Reading...
Race Standards
From a substantive point-of-view, "Race/Ethnicity and the 2000 Census: Implications for Public Health" details the changes made in the terms of public health record keeping as mandated by the 1997 revised U.S. Office of Management an Continue Reading...
Criminology: Driving While Black
In their article "Driving While Black: Effects of Citizen Self-Reports of Traffic Stops and Police Actions," Richard J. Lundman and Robert L. Kaufman present their findings regarding the influence of race and ethnici Continue Reading...
Gangster Rap Responds to Police Brutality
Gangster Rap Speaking Out Against Police Brutality
Art often reflects life. When life creates situations that are dire, the art projected from that experience echoes that sense of urgency for change. In tod Continue Reading...
The Founding Fathers stated in the Declaration of Independence (1776) that “all men are created equal”—but it was a statement that only rang partially true if one is to judge by their actions. Even though Thomas Paine (1791) had ide Continue Reading...
America": A Semi-Structured Interview with Mohammed "Mo" Hadi
Semi-Structured Interview Questions and Summary of Responses (impromptu follow-up questions are italicized):
Question No.
When and why did you come to the United States?
I arrived in Continue Reading...
Both the liberal democratic and the business rationale need to be clearly articulated in a coherent communications strategy.
5) Statistical data. Detailed statistical data is needed to pinpoint which groups require positive action and to evaluate t Continue Reading...
Europe and Africa
Understanding the Emergence of 'Ethnicity' and the Nation-State
The historical emergence of ethnicities and nation-states in Europe and in Africa is continually questioned and re-interpreted by historians, sociologists, anthropolo Continue Reading...
Using humans as guinea pigs in a study of what happens to the body when syphilis is left untreated borders on the viciousness of some of Nazi Germany's "human experiments" on innocent Jews.
Meanwhile, Satel goes on to point out that notwithstanding Continue Reading...
Racial Ethnic Identity
Sometimes fiction echoes real life, and that can become a powerful influential force on how culture is defined and molded through the participation of the arts with real life. This can be seen in the case of examining both a t Continue Reading...
Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds
An analysis of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds
Inglourious Basterds, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and released in 2009, is a continuation of Tarantino's postmodern approach to cinema and may be Continue Reading...
Racism and Various Forms
How does an understanding of racism in its various forms inform the counseling professional practice?
Racism is regarded as the negative feelings exercised by one ethnic group towards other individuals belonging form a diff Continue Reading...
Family therapy believes that problems that the individuals evidence stem from the fact that problems occur within the family unit itself and that the family is divided into several component parts. To address these problems the therapist, as it wer Continue Reading...
On the contrary societies treatment of certain racial and ethnic groups based on the color of skin or the language spoken also contributes greatly to the formation and proliferation of gang violence.
Conclusion
The purpose of this discussion was t Continue Reading...
Prostrate Cancer Health Disparities Among Blacks
Prostate Cancer Health Disparities among Blacks and Latino Males
Prostrate Cancer Health Disparities among Blacks and Latino Males
Roughly 218,000 males in the United States some time or another are Continue Reading...
ECS
The European Security Strategy rests on a platform of multilateralism that includes roles for organizations like NATO, the United Nations, as well as other quasi-legal bodies like the World Trade Organization and International Criminal Court the Continue Reading...
Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive and behavioral techniques / therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT as commonly referred to encompasses several techniques. One is behavioral experiments whereby the psychologist helps the client to do Continue Reading...
Vulnerability comes as a result of an interaction between the resources accessible to persons as well as communities and the life challenges they go through. Vulnerability emerges from developmental challenges, individual inabilities, underprivileged Continue Reading...
Diverse Workforce
Today, there are nine billion people in the world living in more than 200 countries and the need for informed approaches to the management of a diverse workforce have never been greater. Effectively managed, a diverse workforce ca Continue Reading...
In this case, the various challenges that these individuals were exposed to and their ability to overcome them, showed me how the views of the past were incorrect. Where, the accomplishments of person will not be dependent upon: the racial, ethnic o Continue Reading...
Race and Ethnic Inclusion and Exclusion
In Ira Berlin's (1998) Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, the author shows how groups in the U.S. struggled to exclude other groups. White people made a serious effort to Continue Reading...
Autobiographical Narrative of Colonial American Life
The rise of the colonial era in the 1600s and 1700s was a time of reckoning and awakening for very many of us. Living in this time in the divided regions of America had its fair share of challenge Continue Reading...
Social Psychology Differ When Applied in Different Cultural Context
Social Psychology within a humanistic critique
Being social is a harmless and innate characteristic of the human nature. People who like to socialize like to share their own person Continue Reading...
The very notion of 'Asian-American' is a false construction, given the distinctive cultures that exist within the region. Moreover, some recent Asian immigrants, such as those from Cambodia or Vietnam, may have more impoverished economic circumstanc Continue Reading...
Especially in a country where the fastest growing minority group is Hispanic, and there will always be a need for bilingual speakers.
In conclusion, humans without social support -- whether it is older people or a newborn baby -- cannot function up Continue Reading...
Police Corruption and Citizen Complaints Relative to Ethnicity
Police has a rather crucial role to play in the society. However, at more than one occasions, people have lodged complaints against police officers. Rather than maintaining justice and e Continue Reading...
They presented factors such as ethnicity, diversity, religion, language, and population ages and clearly articulated how these were weighted in their statistical study. Their conclusion that none of these was as significant as per capita income as a Continue Reading...
Race and Racism
Race is one of the most complicated and interesting topics in the social sciences. In many ways, race is an artificial construct, since there is no single genetic marker differentiating one race from another and racial identities ch Continue Reading...
Kozol states that these high school students: "...seem far less circumspect than their elders and far more open in their willingness to confront these issues." (2006) in fact, it is stated by a fifteen-year-old-girl named Isabel that Kozol reports h Continue Reading...