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America is often advertised as the "Land of the Free" with "equal opportunities." However, when immigrants arrive, things do not end up in their favor. Instead, the justice system rules out the people of color and favors the White privileged and only brings complications and inconveniences to society. The American Dream is not much of a dream as it is a nightmare for many non-Caucasian individuals. Generally, most people start at different starting points in life yet, it is…

Although race is a social construction it has had serious effects on the daily life of individuals. Many individual think that racism is something at a personal level, through individual interactions. However, racism is something which affects minorities at a systemic level. It affects every aspect of society but individuals often don’t see how deeply invaded racism is into the system. One of these systems is the adoption process. The adoption industry is one that has biases because of the…

Family, School, and Environment: How Do They Affect the Student? For this ethnographical project, I observed in a Pre-K classroom at a public, urban elementary school in Birmingham Alabama. I observed in this classroom for a total of twenty-five hours during the months of November and December. During my time, I participated in regular classroom activities, attended lunch and physical education class with the students, and interviewed both the lead teacher and the teaching assistant. The…

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…

Progress and Conclusion on my Personal Growth The four diversity related topics I’ll be focusing on are: oppression & power, ethnic identity development, ableism and ageism. With the topic of oppression and power, as well as some the exercises we did, sort of made me realized how rough my bringing up and how easy some of the white students had it, regardless of their situation. It also made apparent who had more privilege than others and who was a bit more wary of the power they held with their…

The meanings of home not only refer to a place where can sleep and eat, but a place to carry the joys and angers, the place where full of love, responsibilities, obligations. Finding a home is a human destiny in a sense. For Asian Americans, a home can be a small family built up by the people they loved, also can be a community established by the entire Asian American. For APA LGBT, the home is not always make they feel peace of mind. It is easy for ordinary people to have access to the support…

Many changes have occurred regarding education, altering what is taught, how material is taught, and what material is no longer available to be taught. The removal of course material that is offered to students is not uncommon in educational institutions, however, the material removed is that with usually very little educational or cultural significance. Seeing as Mexican-American Ethnic studies was not drawing enough student interest, some schools had begun to drop Mexican-American ethnic…

Through writing about my racial identity and ethnicity, I will discuss how my life has been impacted by my ethnic identity and the society that I live in. I will also discuss the sociological aspect of my ethnic identity. I will discuss what my racial identity is, how I define it, how it has changed, and how I interact with others in the same group as me. It is important to discuss my own experiences to better understand the experiences of others. My racial identity is white. I am white but I…

share / A country with me, or the people who share / Skin Color” in the poem to display the internal conflict faced by immigrants. Your race and ethnicity become defining characteristics of who you are, whether or not you fit into the stereotypes your place of origin is put into. For instance, people automatically look at Pablo and decide he is Mexican and make racist remarks towards him, characterizing him with the ethnicity others presume him to be. They assume him to be Mexican, and while he…

antibiotics, as well as HIV drugs. Animal testing is an exceptional study because it improves the health of humans. Without testing on animals scientists and doctors wouldn’t get the chance to even create safe, ready-to-distribute drugs in the first place. Humans would either die from the unpredictable medication or they would suffer through the illness/disease without the hope of recovery. Therefore, animal testing is a medical savior, ensuring that drugs are safe for humans to consume.…