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    In her essay “Feel Good Reel Food: A Taste of the Cultural Kedgeree in Gurinder Chadha’s What’s Cooking?”, Debnita Chakravarti claims that “food is employed as an eloquent indicator for attitudes and constituents of characters, a perfect conveyor of subtexts that often lie too deep for the spoken word” (18). The novel Digging to America by Anne Tyler models this concept by using food to help construct the identities and behaviours of its characters, revealing the complex tensions that exist in…

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    Chechen Language

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    1. What is the demography of the language? The Chechen language, or Tsjetsjeens, is a branch of Vainakh of the Northeast Caucasian language family (Nakh-Daghestanian) and has an approximate number of 1.2 – 1.5 million speakers. According to Thompson (2013), the language can be found in the Republic of Chechnya (Russia), Dagestan, Georgia, and can also be found in Central Asian countries like Turkey and Jordan as a result of the Chechen diaspora. 2. What historical events led to the physical…

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    Why Does Racism Exist

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    a majority of Caucasian individuals had not encountered or ever been involved in racism or discrimination because of their race. The few that did face racism gave examples that they were discriminated against by other races. For example, African Americans assume because the individual is Caucasian he or she is racist based on society’s previous laws and slavery. The data also showed all Caucasians viewed all races as equal and they only used racial commentary within their own race. Lastly, as a…

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    for an actor to portray someone from a different ethnic or race group. Others have clashing beliefs. Actors should not play someone from a different ethnic or race group because they are emphasizing racial hierarchy, mocking them, and concluding that the race that they actually are is the norm. Some people believe in allowing actors of one ethnic group to play characters of another race or ethnic group. Employment security for caucasian actors was one apparent cause for why these depictions…

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    Isms In The Movie Crash

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    labeling is very common like it or not many commercials, television series show stereotypes of all races and as soon as society notices it is considered…

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    today if the police officer who is conducting the interview with a young Caucasian woman, if the police officer has any form of prejudice or bias toward any specific…

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    or belief and it occurs in spite of evidence (2012, p.108). After 12 weeks of placement, I concluded that Jane and Finch community wasn’t as bad as what it was portrayed on the media. Living life as an Asian, Korean, I think that my ethnicity and race was a major part of my identity. Being born and growing up in my home country definitely plays a big part of my life because of the different culture and the environment. It is interesting and sometimes funny to watch people react differently and…

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    What Is Racism In America

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    Racism the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to the race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. Imagine there are two little girls playing on the playground on a hot summer day, all of a sudden their parents comes and grab their hands and say, “ I do not want to see my child playing with her, “ quickly the daughter replies, but why not mommy? As a child they see no color in their world they only see…

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    of the discussion will be on Rachel Dolezal. Genetically born as a Caucasian, she later identified herself as an African American. Now let’s explore the true meaning of transracial. Let’s begin with the transracial definition. According to Merriam Webster the meaning is to be involving, encompassing, or extending across two or more races. An example of this is transracial adoption. This could occur when you have a Caucasian mother and an African American father. Rachel Dolezal was the…

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    the hatred or intolerance of another race or races. Racism is a big problem in our society. People are very often doing things that are racist. When someone says or does something racist, they hurt more than just the people that the comment or act was aimed at. They hurt the relationship between both races as a whole. The more racism there is, the more different races will not tolerate each other, and the more racism there will be. Racism can apply to all races, it can hurt everyone, and there…

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