Race is associated with biology of human beings, whereas ethnicity is associated with the origin and culture. An individual coming into a society where his ethnicity and race is unfamiliar, an opportunity is open for both the individual and the population of that society to learn and get to know each other. It is imminent that the people of different racial backgrounds, especially multi-ethnic groups, will face all kinds of stereotypes when coming to a new society that is completely unfamiliar with the physical features, culture, traditions and world view of that ethnic group. However, that can be rectified with positive involvement and communication in different areas of that society. Individuals coming from various ethnic and racial backgrounds
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In “Paper Tigers” Yang, talks about a Korean-American student who was teaching and cared a lot about his students but could never show expressions. It definitely would help to take advantage of the position someone from an ethnic background is in and use it to influence others and help them in understanding the impact cultural has on their upbringing and daily life and the similarities between their culture and other cultures around the world. For instance, someone from an ethnic background becomes a professor in a country where their ethnicity is in minority, they will have a great chance to influence the students just by presenting a respectable and caring attitude and the rest about their background and ethnicity will just be presumed based on the attitude towards the …show more content…
If individuals and groups as a whole keep taking the use of the advantages given to them as humans on different platforms to bring up the movement of bringing their voices and raise awareness against the mistaken thinking about different races and ethnicity, then it would not take long for humans to have true knowledge and ability to understanding one another. Everyone belonging from various ethnicities has the golden opportunity to take advantage of their status career as a teacher, sociologist, anthropologist, celebrity and break that “Bamboo Ceiling” that Yang talks about, it will allow them to influence and spread to true facts about different ethnicities specially ones are they closely related
In “Paper Tigers” Yang, talks about a Korean-American student who was teaching and cared a lot about his students but could never show expressions. It definitely would help to take advantage of the position someone from an ethnic background is in and use it to influence others and help them in understanding the impact cultural has on their upbringing and daily life and the similarities between their culture and other cultures around the world. For instance, someone from an ethnic background becomes a professor in a country where their ethnicity is in minority, they will have a great chance to influence the students just by presenting a respectable and caring attitude and the rest about their background and ethnicity will just be presumed based on the attitude towards the …show more content…
If individuals and groups as a whole keep taking the use of the advantages given to them as humans on different platforms to bring up the movement of bringing their voices and raise awareness against the mistaken thinking about different races and ethnicity, then it would not take long for humans to have true knowledge and ability to understanding one another. Everyone belonging from various ethnicities has the golden opportunity to take advantage of their status career as a teacher, sociologist, anthropologist, celebrity and break that “Bamboo Ceiling” that Yang talks about, it will allow them to influence and spread to true facts about different ethnicities specially ones are they closely related