...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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...Nhung Le Ms. Rodriguez ETH/125 31 March 2012 Cultural Competence 1. Explore race relations in your community. What is the cultural/racial make-up of your community (For demographics of the city you live in search http://factfinder.census.gov/ , or other credible source)? Are you a member of the majority or minority racial or ethnic group in your community? What does it mean to be ________________ (your race) in your community? What does it mean to be ________________ (your ethnicity) in your community? How do community members treat you because of this? Do the leaders in your area represent community members like you? Do the local media (I.e. news, newspapers) represent community members like you equally and fairly? Are there racial/ethnic inequalities in your community? Explain. I explored the race relations in my community and the cultural/racial make-up of my community using 60135 is: Subject | 60135 5-Digit ZCTA, 601 3-Digit ZCTA | | Number | Percent | RACE | | | Total population | 6,007 | 100.0 | One race | 5,948 | 99.0 | White | 5,753 | 95.8 | Black or African American | 9 | 0.1 | American Indian and Alaska Native | 13 | 0.2 | American Indian | 7 | 0.1 | Alaska Native | 0 | 0.0 | Both American Indian and Alaska Native | 0 | 0.0 | American Indian or Alaska Native, not specified | 6 | 0.1 | Asian | 16 | 0.3 | Asian Indian | 0 | 0.0 | Chinese | 1 | 0.0 | Filipino | 5 | 0.1 | Japanese | 0 | 0.0 | Korean | 0 | 0.0 | Vietnamese...
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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? Myself...
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... |Cultural Diversity | Copyright © 2010, 2009, 2007 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course is designed to educate students about issues of race and ethnicity by presenting historical and modern perspectives on diversity in the United States, and by providing tools necessary to promote a respectful and inclusive society. Students will complete several activities that allow them to examine their own values in relation to the values of various other racial and ethnic communities. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Schaefer, R, T. (2006). Racial and ethnic groups (10th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. Axia College’s Writing...
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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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...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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...HREQ 1700 MID –TERM REVIEW SETTLER COLONY: Were colonies that settled or move to a new country, colony or a “new world”. This settlement was an important characteristic of colonialism in the 19th century. In the development of the course settler colonies especially European settlers affected the live of First Nations Women in Canada, in terms of their culture, lifestyle, family organization, and religion. European colonies devaluated native population with regulations like the Indian Act. DIFFICULT KNOWLEDGE Knowledge that often challenges the dominant ideology, which is difficult to accept and we reject it and its source, or we embrace it without a critical evaluation. DIASPORA Comes from the Greek term “diasperin”, Used to refer to any ethnic population forced or induced to leave their original homelands. Also people who leave their homelands to find work or search for asylum. An example of diaspora in the topics cover in the course is the high amount of Chinese population who came to Canada to work. They weren’t forced, rather they chose to start a new life in a new place. Also, during WWII, the boats of Jewish who came to Canada looking for asylum. This term have helped me gaining knowledge about the migration of different ethnic population to Canada during the 19th and 20th century. THERE IS NOTHING OBJECTIVE ABOUT OBJECIVITY Objectivity means to have a neutral position in a specific topic or issue. Been objective is not possible because any ideology or thought always...
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...“nigger” be used in different context. For instance when a person boasts or proudly relates stories, it could mean an approval for strength, intelligence or drive. When nigger is used as a possessive adjective, it could also become a term of endearment for husband or boyfriend. It becomes a word that describes the pure essence of manhood – the struggle and present survival against the odds. On the other hand, nigger(s) could also mean or describe the following: parents who neglect their children, drunken people who fight in public, people who don't look for job, people with excessively dirty mouths or unkempt households. The one she heard when she was at school was used against her. Out of jealousy, the word was used as a curse or derogatory term to humiliate her. For that moment, the word nigger had a negative connotation. But, what about the times it was used positively like what I've mentioned above? Well, according to Naylor, the word itself is harmless but it is the consensus that gives power it. The collective opinion of people controls the meaning of a particular word. 2. Naylor explains what happens when a community decides to take over a word and renegotiate its meaning by giving us examples or a glimpse of her experiences with regards to the use of the word “nigger” in both positive and negative context. The word nigger did not become an internalization of racism for the black community because, according to her experience, they transformed the meaning of it. Those...
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...to Ruposhi Bangla Unisex hair salon to cut hair and it is also my personal barber. 2) Why did you choose it for the study? I have choose to study this place because it deals with immigrants who are from many different cultures, such as, Pakistan, Indian, and Bengali, who works together to serve the Jackson Heights community, which is full of immigrant . The Jackson heights community is culturally diverse and has many different race, such as Hispanic, Indian, Bengali and Asian. So I thought it would very interesting to find out how does these people from different race and cultures come across each other’s and I also live there. 3) What do you want to learn from this project? I want to learn how different cultural people interact with each other in Jackson height community, and how do they behave toward each other’s, are they racist, are they friendly, do they respect each other’s cultural norms, values, and how do the Barbers communicate, are they only good with their own kind of people or do they treat everybody the same. 4) Do these questions relate to any themes or key concepts discussed in class? If so, which ones and how? These question relates to the theme of globalization where the owner of the store, migrated from Bangladesh to USA for a better life. There is also uneven development, between the owner and the barbers, rapid change overtime, where the barbers learn how to cut all types of haircut, flexible accumulation, and time space, where they buy their quality...
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...the world? These questions contribute to your identity regardless of what you look like or where you come from. Every single person in the world is different whether it is visible to others or not. Although we are all different, we connect and form relationships through common ideas, values, and goals. In the novel Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, by Barack Obama, he recalls many different issues involving his identity as a whole in addition to the communities he lived in and principle values he was raised to believe. Throughout the story Obama creates a theme of struggle involving his own identity. He relates these issues towards his own community and explains how certain occurrences shaped his character values and personality. The word individual can be defined in various ways. It is a word that can apply to many different aspects of life as well as raising questions about who exactly we are as individuals and how we became the who we are today. Some factors that contribute to shaping our identities are social, educational, economic and historical. While Obama was growing up, identity was something he struggled with deeply. He was constantly moving, which forced him to experience different communities and ultimately aided in forming his identity. Looking back on it now, it seems beneficial, but at the time Obama struggled with the feeling of belonging to a certain community as well as acceptance by that community as well as others. Many of his encounters...
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...P5 - Review the methods used by Public Services to ensure they have a diverse workforce The 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 introduced a number of ways to try and create a more diverse workforce. Some of these methods include, improving the data collected on the age, gender, ethnicity, race and disability of their members so that these can be analysed and assessed to see which areas are weakest and need strengthening to ensure that the officers reflect and relate to the community they are working in. Another way is positive advertising, for example, the ‘Could you?’ campaign which is the police’s national recruitment campaign which once set up, the police received expressions of interest from nearly 100,000 people, 40% of whom were found to be women. They set up targets regularly for the different regions to recruit and retain ethnic minority officers and females. In 2003 The Metropolitan Police decided to allow foreign nationals to sign up to join the police force for the first time to help meet ethnic recruitment...
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...Race and Your Community ETH/125 Race and Your Community While living in Austin, TX, I have seen the influences of each and every race as it revolves around my community. I believe the relations in my community and city have been racialized, positively and negatively. However, I do not believe these interactions have directly affected affairs in my direct neighborhood, schools, environment, clubs, and service/volunteer groups which I participate in. Even despite the fact the leader of the community’s outlook of the community and individual race is negative, the relations in my community show positive construction influences on race and the our community. “This marks the third consecutive year for Austin to appear among the three most popular places in the U.S. for Hispanics to live and work”. (http://www.austintexas.org/media/press_releases/press_release?id=16, para 1). I will analyze whether members within my community bear a resemblance to my characteristics and in the ways we look different and the same. As well as how the leaders within my community handle people who are of Hispanic culture and if they are treated differently. Also if members of my community treat individuals who are of my culture any differently than the rest of the community. Also analyze texts and work manuals to check for information by or about individuals of Hispanic culture. Also if local media embody people like me, and...
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...film was Rabun in 2002. Mukhsin won an international children's best feature film award and special mention under the children's jury awards. Most of her commercials and films have been screened at the Berlin, san Francisco, Singapore international film festivals and the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival (not to be confused with the other Cannes Film Festival). Her films were featured in a special retrospective at the 19th Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2006. An April 2007 retrospective of her feature films was sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawaii, and the Honolulu Academy of Arts. In Singapore, Yasmin is best known for the pro-family commercials she did for the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports. Yasmin was inducted into the Malaysian Advertising Hall of Fame by the Association of Accredited Advertising Agents Malaysia in November 2008. Yasmin was working on her first feature film to be filmed in Singapore titled, "Go, Thaddeus!" when she died. This was to be an inspirational film for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games, based on the book, "Running the full distance: Thaddeus Cheong" by Belinda Wee about Singapore's 17 year old National triathlete who died after...
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...is still a major problem when it relates to religion, age, gender, sexual preferences, and ethnicities. I had not actively thought that there was a huge problem since I do not surround myself with those that have issues with people in a racist manner. I do see that we are closer to a true “one race.” After this course, I can see that the American history is more than just wars and economy. Is was about fighting for rights and changing the way people view others. There is an overwhelming amount of misinformation and misguided opinions out there. With the “Who am I” assignment I had the opportunity to not only research to find out my own heritage, but I was able to learn about the history involving my ancestors. Knowing that there are multiple religions and backgrounds to my heritage was an eye opener for me in a sense that I am a lot like those that are still discriminated against. Being able to see where I came from and how far my ancestors have evolved has been a helpful in relating to others trials and tribulations. Although my ancestors were from America, not all of their spouses were. This helped me to see that the life of a blended family has not always been easy. I was also able to see that demographically other heritages and ancestors were able to make a place for themselves in America. The year 2050 is not that far away. With the multi-racial families on the rise, I am not so sure that we will have race category for each blended race. That would seem a bit silly to...
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...University of Phoenix Material Research Plan Part 1: |What is your general topic or area of interest? | | | | | | | | | |Cancer | |What is it about your general topic that interests you? |My father in-law had prostate cancer | | | | |What questions do you have about the topic that you would like to|What are the risk factor for prostate cancer | |investigate? List them. |What Is Prostate Cancer? | | |What are the key Statistics for having Prostate Cancer? | | |What are sign and Symptoms of Prostate Cancer? | | ...
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