Ethnic cleansing

The Netflix series Orange is the New Black emphasizes racial stereotypes within each ethnic group it portrays. The racial groups that most prominently serve as the focus of the show are Blacks, whites, and Latinas. The Blacks are portrayed as rowdy, and their backstories involve poverty and broken homes. The whites are portrayed as rich and educated, or as the typical “trailer park junkie,” and the ways they ended up in prison are depicted largely as accidents or misfortunes. The Latinas are…

Introduction For the purposes of this paper, I have chosen to focus on the social identities of white privilege and my Mexican ethnicity in discussing how both have impacted the construction of my social identity. Patton, Evans, Forney, Guido & Quaye (2016) mention in their text “Student development in college: Theory, research, and practice” Ferman and Gallego’s model of Latina/o Ethnoracial identity, which I will use to discuss how my Mexican ethnicity and being white has shaped my social…

3.1. Findings Photo Manipulations 3.1.1 Photo manipulation is used in western media to attract viewers and increase their ratings. Editors use photoshop and many other editing programs to make the picture seem perfect. 3.1.2 The singer Meghan Trainor has had her video edited without her consent. Her figure was modified to look slimmer than the singer actually is. Trainor took down the video down until the video showed her actual figure. This act insulting and rude according to Trainor. This was…

Stereotypes are a set of fallacious ideas or beliefs that people have about someone or how something is like. Stereotypes often lead people to believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are of the same type or category. Although some stereotypes are positive stereotypes, people stereotype so often that it turns out to be something bad and unpleasant to hear about. Not to mention some negative stereotypes that have impacted on different groups of people causing…

shootings of African Americans by white police officers, the topic of racial profiling is once again reignited. The issue is especially prevalent and controversial in the United States, chiefly due to the fact that America is a diverse country with many ethnic groups. Such profiling is a form of discrimination by which law enforcement uses a person’s race or cultural background as the primary reason to suspect that the individual has broken the law. The topic of racial profiling has caused a…

American men. More specifically, they wanted to replicate findings that “Asian American men have more rape-supportive attitudes compared to White men and investigate the relationship between rape-supportive attitudes and misogyny, acculturation, and ethnic identity” (Koo, Stephens, Lindgren, George 1). Thus suggesting that the goal of this study was to uncover the relationship between culture in Asian American Men and rape-supportive attitudes. These attitudes take place in the belief of…

have their own believes, participate on sport only to precise their race and culture and valuate their potential as athletes. Many people has been identified and evaluated as athletes, coaches, or media, based on their skin color, gender or their ethnic background. Therefore, many group of people suffers disadvantages due to discrimination, those groups are called minorities. For example Mexican…

numerous religious groups. So, Caucasians, Africans, Asians, Indians, Arabs, Jews are different ethnicities of the human race. In United State, we have many ethnics groups as wrote Henslin that “The United States is a pluralistic society made up of many different groups, his policy of multiculturalism permits or even encourages racial-ethnic variation”. That been said, I think that may be the language,…

Assess the impact of events such as 9/11, 7/7 and the Paris attacks on the prospects of ethnic minorities across Western societies. __________________________________________________________________________________ Multiculturalism has been happening for countless centuries, however the amount of it has drastically increased in volume since the post-war era, mainly as a result of refugee’s and issues that came along with the cold war. Since the first Iraq war, and general the modern…

World War II (WWII) was by no means completely burden-free for any ethnic group that had existed prior to the inception of the war. In the United States alone, groups such as the Jewish, African Americans, Women, Japanese, and Native Americans had all fought for their own domestically respective issues. With the start of the war came significant population deficits, blatant and unprecedented racism, and common economical upheavals. These issues reiterated the hard truth that no party was…