REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. What impact does the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms have on rights and freedoms not mentioned specifically in the Charter? Could these "other rights and freedoms" be curtailed or extinguished by governments? Answer: The Charter recognizes the existence of other rights and permits them to continue except where they conflict with Charter rights and freedoms. Rights outside the Charter do not have Charter protection, and may be abolished or encroached upon by governments
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class people. “Bourgeoisie Blues” – the black middle class The video explained that since the 1960 s the black middle class is growing by leaps and bounds, African Americans have chance entered white-collar jobs and have better education than before. They are no longer isolated by color identification in white middle-class community or in some areas; they developed their own black middle class community. But they still don’t have the same
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predominately white city, my real life experience with people of different races has been limited to quick exchanges with a few people of color in the hallways and watching Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech as part of a report. I realize these are isolated experiences, but they are the only memories I have to develop my feelings on the issues of race. However, I do not need to apologize for the privileges I was born and raised with, instead I will treat people with different privileges based
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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
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SOC 322 All Discussions Forum Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/soc-322-discussions-forum/ Discussion Forum 1 Discussion Forum 1: What is your cultural background, and what is it like where you live? In Discussion Forum 1, post your response to the following discussion questions. Reply to at least two classmates’ responses by the date indicated in the course Calendar. 1. What is your cultural background, and what is it like where you live? 2. Describe how you have
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back home in my country, Kenya, black people are the majority and white Kenyans are not racist toward other Kenyans who are black. However, my stay in the America has made me realize that someone can be discriminated against because of the color of their skin as at times I have also experienced this discrimination based on my race. In America, for the first time my life, I identified as black. While living in Kenya, I had the privilege of not always thinking about my racial identity. Moreover,
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explains how theorists have constructed different ideas about racism in relation to ethnicity, social history, class and gender. The theorists have made a very important point in that although social culture rejects the idea of racism, it does still exist, sometimes in very similar ways. An example is the similarity between ethnocentrism and ideological racism. Both of these believe that their ethnic culture is superior and other cultures are biologically, intellectually or culturally inferior
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a strong role in promoting diversity and creating prejudices and stereotypes. In school I was taught that Blacks were separated from Whites in the south, but I did not realize this was until 1964. That is not that long ago. Living in California I do not see racial separation still today, but in a visit to South Carolina you can see the separation still exists. I guess I had assumed that segregation ended soon after the freeing of slaves. In 1964 that would have been part of my Mom’s generation
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Revolution there was a debate over how to education would look in the colonials. Slaveholders, at the time, did not want to educate their slaves or nonslaveholding white population (Stubblefield & Keane, 1994). Some of this exist still today, many of our poor whites and minorities are unable to access the quality education as the privilege society. Skills learned from Native Americans and African Americas are still used today. During colonial era, slaves were used to build and develop structures.
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* How does your selected religious group differ from other religious groups (such as in their beliefs, worship practices, or values)? My selected religion is Judaism; Judaism is a religion that is based on the Old Testament, that the Jews call the Torah. Judaism is based on the belief of God. The Jews do not believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah and are still waiting on his coming. According to Kriger (2010) According to the American Jewish Identity Survey of 2001 (Mayer, Kosmin, & Keysar
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