Acculturation

In the book, Our Hearts Fell to the Ground, author Colin G. Calloway noted that Native American were reluctant to discuss their lives once they had been relocated to the reservation. This reluctance to write or speak about life on the reservation became the mentality of many Native Americans due to varies factors. However, this reluctance can be explain if one was to examine the catastrophic damage that was cause to the Plains Indians culture and traditions. The expansion to the west stole not…

Throughout history many minority groups have to constantly combat injustices. American Indians were displaced from their homes and completely taken advantage of by colonist and had to undergo a new reality. Their religion, education system, tribal customs, and languages were all destroyed. In 1960s, American Indians began the Red Power Movement where Native youth began fighting for their rights. One of the most influential social and historical movements for American Indians was the occupation…

In the last few decades, Muslims have come to constitute a significant immigrant group in the United States. As a result of this relatively recent arrival, the second generation, defined as children born in the United States to immigrant-origin parents, are the first generation being raised in America and are starting to reach maturity. Their unique perspective on the United States, thoroughly unlike that of their parents, forces the second generation to confront issues that their parents and…

Racism can be defined as the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. Although it may seem that racism in America has come a long way from its unsettling past, Michael Omi argues that racism in American culture has a pervasive feature in our lives. One that is both overt and inferential (Omi 538). Nowadays, American culture uses race on how to judge a person’s character. Racism is…

Family therapy has always presented itself as a treatment for people within the framework of their environment, and this standard has been considered the pragmatic expression of guidance upon family relationships (Nichols, 2016). Today, counselors remain receptive to the need to understand the ethnic experience of their client’s family, so incorrect suppositions are not formulated just because the clients are from a diverse culture. Structural Family therapy provides a comprehensive framework…

Foreign-born Americans, as well as the generations before them, have been the main driver of U.S. population growth and the epicenter of national racial and ethnic change, since passage of the 1965 law that changed the nation’s immigration policy. It is projected they will remain as such over the next 50 years. This comes as a surprising, yet fearful revelation in a country that has seen an increase in immigration tension and alienation. A recent survey done by the Public Research Religious…

Canen & Canen, (2008) studied Multicultural leadership: The costs of its absence in organizational conflict management in higher education institutions in Brazil. The researcher did a case study within a unit of an HEI in Brazil. The research discussed in this paper showed that the system of constructing "otherness" and isolating it can actually be characterized as workplace bullying condoned by extremely mono-cultural leaders. Leaders should be ethically and multicultural accountable for…

How did slave trade and slavery contribute to the Afro-American Culture between 1600 and 1800? What were the available channels and regional differences of these contributions? Foundations of the world we live in have been largely laid by the economic growth in between 1500 and 1800. Western Europe have experienced sustained economic growth and institutional changes which transformed medieval institutions in some of European countries. The growth was mostly due to the access to the Atlantic…

Theme #1: Gender Issues The first theme we discussed in class was Gender Issues which includes gender inequality and stereotypes. Gender issues affect both men and woman. We learned the difference between Gender (a sociological category) and Sex (reproductive organs and individual is born with) and within these terms are issues that are portrayed in the media (Croft, 2016). There are also certain gender stereotypes that are directed to either male or females. If a man associates himself with a…

Case Analysis on Young Rural Migrants Characteristics of the New Cohort of Migrants Referred to the Story (Hu, 2012), the characteristics of young rural migrants as summarized in this section. Young migrants, who were born after 1980, are first stepping into the metropolis at an average age of 17.2, much earlier than the previous generation (Hu, 2012). This new group of working force leaves regular schools early, which implies a low education level on average. With the recent rapid…