Race and your Community Michelle Atoigue ETH125 Sunday Michelle Watson Race and your Community Dededo is the village located in the island of Guam. Guam is a beautiful place for vacation spot. I live in the village of Dededo. It is estimated according to the latest U.S. Census to be populated at 45,000 people which makes Dededo the largest population in the island. Where I currently live there are Filipinos, White, Chamorro Guamanians, and Micronesians, because there is difference race
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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
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Race and Your Community Ethics 125 The analysis of different cultures is a very interesting thing this world is full of all kinds of people. No one is going to be exactly the same yet some a very similar. This paper will cover the impacts, differences and the effects that difference ethnic groups have on my life. The differences between ethnic groups make the world a place of challenges and variety. In my community I have to say that I do look like most of my immediate community. However
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Race and Your Community This paper is to be an autobiographical research paper on my community. Contained within this paper I am to answer certain questions posed to me. I will answer those questions in my own way. Although the answers may not be satisfactory to the requirements of this course, I will answer them honestly. I believe that many will be surprised with the answers to the questions. I tend to make people think by what I write. I will admit that the community
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Final Project: Race as it relates to your community What is a community? According to the dictionary, a community is a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage. The community in which I live in is about equal in the amount of Hispanic, and African American residents; however, it appears to have fewer Caucasians than both Hispanics and African Americans. In this paper I will consider relations
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those individuals are whites, 12.4% are blacks, and 2.2% are Asians. There is a reported 1862 business firms in the area with 6% of those businesses identified as black owned (U.S. Census Bureau). Wilton Manors is predominantly white and the black community is centralized in the northern area which surrounds the public housing, public high school, and also the social security office. My local Publix grocery store has a predominantly black store staff and I probably know at least twenty of the workers
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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
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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
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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
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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
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