Dominant minority

Is TV Too White? Visible minorities make up less than 30% of all those who appear in the top 100 films of 2014, according to University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication (Smith et al). A number which is too low to represent the diversity of multicultural countries such as Canada, United States, Australia, etc. When asked what are the difficulties of working in the entertainment industry, amateur actors from various backgrounds mostly mention the complicated task of…

found the representation of minorities has not changed enough to see a well-rounded representation of ethnicities in special education. More so, the authors have seen a reduction in students of African descent with Intellectual Disabilities (ID). This is not surprising, as diagnosis of ID in students with African descent cannot occur. The reduction comes from the lack of ability to label students rather than the diagnosis being more culturally sensitive to minority students. Additionally,…

Racial prejudice is the belief that certain racial groups are inferior to others. The inequalities between races around the world not only affects their economic status, but their health status as well. It is a given that racial minorities have an elevated risk of exposure to stress, toxic environments and minimal opportunities, but what is often ignored is the health concerns that come along with it. The institutional discrimination and socioeconomic disadvantages lead to exposure…

and enabling of special right for certain cultural and national minorities that reside in a larger liberal nation. In essence, group differentiated rights might be counter intuitive to the liberalism, treating a minority group differently by ways of exclusion or special treatment, however according to Kymlicka, group rights should exists in order to uphold the main agenda of liberalism. Kymlicka strongly reasons that these minority groups have rights to preserve their culture and way of life…

feeling of impending death. Yet even with these egregious conditions, minority soldiers dealt with far worse conditions than white, straight servicemen ever faced. Black soldiers experienced segregation and savage physical assault, while Japanese and gay soldiers often faced isolation and psychological harassment. Each minority serviceman had a unique experience in the military because of their race or sexuality. Further, each minority serviceman endured their conditions for different reasons.…

world due to rising issues of identity and rights for minority groups. Will Kymlicka is a Canadian scholar who “focuses on issues of democracy and diversity, and in particular on models of citizenship and social justice within multicultural societies.” Kymlicka proposes that states should protect minority and cultural rights, attempts to categorize minorities into two groups, identifies that culture is a synonym to a nation and states that minorities in a liberal state like Canada have more…

racial and ethnic minorities groups.…

Institutional racism is defined as racism that is ingrained into the procedures and practices of schools that cause disadvantage and discrimination for ethnic minority groups. There is evidence that there is differential achievement in terms of ethnicity. This is evidenced by 79% of Chinese students achieving 5A*-C GCSE grades (including English and Maths) and 74% of Indian students achieving 5A*-C GCSE grades (including English and Maths). This compares significantly to 60% of Bangladeshi…

mass or mainstream media do not operate in a vacuum but interact within the particular historical, cultural and political circumstances of each society, and in relation to the specific characteristics of each minority as it interacts with the dominant hegemonic majority and the other minorities (Adoni,…

aspirations, and obstacles to more recruitment of minorities. Results of the questionnaires made apparent that all applicants had good intention for joining the police service. Many chose service, job stability, and career development opportunities. Nonetheless, Ethnic and racial minority recruitment remain to be consistently low (Holdaway, 1991). Two decades after the British home office report, there is only a minor 1% increase in racial and ethnic minority officers within police service…