The Journal Evolution and Human Behavior published a study, that shows Americans make racist assumptions based names. For example, someone name Deshawn, it can be stated a character wit h a black- sounding name was assumed to be a physically larger and can be more aggression. During the civil rights movement, black people have typical names like Florence or Franklin. Blacks wanted their individuality and break ties from the society, and so they wanted to created unique names so they can be appear in birth records once for that year. The trends of names are close to pure, unmediated, reflective mirror of societal…
Due to the fact, that one culture overpowers the other. Hitherto, we could arrive to the point that we regret our names which means our culture and want to change to name which has the supremacy. Dumas did this choice stating “I wanted to add an American name,” and called herself “Julie.” Since then, she had an easy life; she was not rejected, she was accepted because she assimilated to the predominant culture. “I spoke English without an accent and was known as Julie, people assumed I was American.”…
On August 5, 1585 Jane Langley had witnessed one of the most scariest and disappointing events she could remember. 118 colonist, including herself, that had been hoping for a better life in America had just arrived in Roanoke; an island off the coast of North Carolina. As Jane and her family waited on the supply ship to come in, she watched her little brother. Her brother was a short, blond, four year old who knew nothing on what was going on. All of a sudden she heard her mother scream in panic and saw her father and every man that could, run to the shore.…
Both "In Response to Executive Order 9066" and "Mericans" a common theme is American identity. Both stories have main characters that feel out of place, and are stuck between two different cultures. In Okita's story, American identity comes from where they live and who they interact with. Both Okita's story and Cisnero's stories determine that your families heritage and race doesn't dictate what it means to be American.…
Stereotyping is a big part of the human life. They are formed by our experiences and how we grow up. Stereotypes form our judgement about others and impact our mindset. It can help you determine someone’s identity in a positive or a negative way. Stereotyping is a big problem in this world.…
Who Will Light Incense When Mother’s Gone? “Who Will Light Incense When Mother’s Gone?” is a creative non-fiction essay written by Andrew Lam. Lam was born in Vietnam in 1964 and immigrated to America with his family during the Vietnam war to avoid the violence surrounding the war (CITE).…
"Where are you from?" People always ask this question when they are making friends. However, this is an embarrassing question for the immigrants because they come from their own countries physically, but they are Americans on the inside. They are struggling to either be Americanized or keep their own cultures. Then, it brings a puzzle to the immigrant parents: should they Americanize their children?…
“Without words we should scarcely be able to form categories at all” (324). If we weren’t able to speak then people wouldn’t be labeled or subjected to a category. In Gordon Allport 's “Language of Prejudice”, he states that labels subjects a person to one aspect of their appearance. A person shouldn’t be looked at as being in a group but as an individual, everyone is different. Once a individual is given a label, that’s what overlooks every other feature an individual may have.…
Some people could have different names during lifetime. Sometimes names are chosen to get the importance to an events in life. Babies could be called by totem animals. They would not be ever used as an ordinary address. Native Americans names have very sacred and personal meaning .…
The chart above shows the percentage of call back between black sounding name and white sounding name that determined by the criminal record. Criminal record represented by the black box and no criminal record represented by the striped box. Based on the chart, it is shown that black-sounding names have a lower percentage to be called back than the white-sounding names, although they have a lower criminal record compared to the white people by 50% on average in 2003 (Goyette and Scheller, 2016). For instance, it is happened to Nakia Sanford, an African-American applicant who got rejected by FedEx’s Supervisor because she has a black-sounding name (Evans,…
“I don’t know” I can still distinctly recall my eleven-year-old self repeatedly saying to anyone who tried to talk to me. It was my first day of school in America and that was the only sentence I could put together in English. I was born in China and lived there my whole life until my mother decided to move to New York. I thought I was just visiting her for winter break, but she dropped me off at school just a week after my arrival. As my new classmates tried to talk to me, I can see their mouth moving but they might as well be speaking gibberish.…
American Identity is unique, this is a common theme found in the two pieces of writing "Response to Executive Order 9066" by Dwight Okima, and "Mericans" By Sandra Cisneros's, and that how they determine their American Identity is how they are exposed to American Culture. This theme is seen in both pieces of writing as both narrators are treated differently based on their looks and ethnic backgrounds, yet they are both able to show that they think, feel, and act the same as any other American, and they prove that your American Identity is not based on your looks and ethnic background, but instead how you are exposed to American Culture. In "Response to Executive Order 9066" by Dwight Okima, the narrator describes his experiences and thoughts…
When I started elementary school, I was always asked by my friends and teachers why my parents gave me a more customary American first name instead of a more traditional Chinese first name, and what is so special about my first name Kevin. When I was younger, many of friends were too young to understand that my parents were trying to assimilate me into American society by giving me an American name. At the time, I wasn’t quite sure why my parents named me Kevin Kwok or the meaning behind it. I would change the subject every time someone would ask me about my name. As I grew older, I realized that my parent gave me the name, Kevin Kwok because it bridges the American and Chinese culture together.…
Unexpectedly, the results exhibited an even distribution rate between the envelopes with a Middle Eastern name and White name. There were 40 out of 159 envelopes returned for the White name, and 45 out of 161 for the Middle Eastern names. The results do not support the hypothesis of the White name receiving a higher return rate. The data would suggest that there is no bias against middle easterns in the Columbus, Georgia and Phenix City, Alabama areas. In other studies the results are mixed.…
There is a topical ongoing debate in society about whether citizenship is becoming an outdated notion in the 21st century. Citizenship refers to the “state of being vested with the rights, privileges and duties of a citizen” (Dictionary, 2016). In the last century, the concept of citizenship has altered drastically and in addition, there is now more then one type of citizenship in existence. Until the modern era arrived, there were only two types of citizenship; natural born or naturalised. A natural born citizen refers to “a citizen being born in the state and a naturalised citizen is a person whom moved to the country post-birth”…