Ethnic cleansing

along ethnic lines and engage in self-help behaviors to enhance their own security. This creates oppositional relationships across society, increasing the potential for costly misperceptions and miscalculations, especially when uncertainty surround everybody’s actions and intentions. Ethnic conflict in Serbia was artificially manufactured and came about due to certain imperceptions. Starting during the 1960s, a wide coalition of Serbian elites joined together to provoke conflict along ethnic…

Having lived in the Buddhist dominated Myanmar for centuries, the Rohingya are an ethnic group where most of them are Muslims. They are a neglected ethnic group where there are other 135 official ethnic groups in the country. They have been living stateless since 1982 in Myanmar because they have been denied citizenship. Savagely violent security forces forced the Rohingya to escape their homes in Rakhine State in Myanmar. They are facing major violations of human rights , their only option was…

The Rohingya crisis The Rohingyas are an ethnic minority group in the western region of Myanmar, accounting for two thirds of the population of the Rakhine state. They are a religious and linguistic minority from western Myanmar according to the United Nations The 1 million Rohingyasare different from the Muslim majority linguistically, ethnically, culturally, and religiously. Myanmar was ruled by the military for over 50 years and during that time period it adopted a lot of racial policies…

Complementary Field Exam RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN: APPROACHES, INTERPRETATIONS, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS Race and ethnicity are both important aspects of identity in the modern world. Given their centrality in today’s identity politics, the study of race and ethnicity has naturally found its way into the pages of studies on the ancient Mediterranean. The Greeks and Romans are thought to have been the progenitors of ideas and philosophies which the modern “Western” world…

The summers I’ve spent in Tonga were full of good, natural foods that were either picked locally or from one’s backyard. The ingredients used to make a delicious beverage called otai contains watermelon or mangoes, crushed pineapples, coconut, milk, water, and sugar. The combination of these different components made in Tonga gives a unique taste. However, otai made in Tonga differs to how it is made in America. The texture and sweetness of this beverage is different which makes it less…

country with over 140 million people is located in West Africa. Nigeria has over 270 ethnic groups, each group has its custom, tradition and dialect. Although diverse in their way of live, Nigerians are unified by the language of death. For the sake of understanding, there are three major ethnic groups in Nigeria, they are the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. Although rural-urban migration has caused us to live together, each ethnic group has its designated primary location. Although death is a common…

Implicit associations are formed automatically through social experiences and unconscious biases are held as negative attitudes and behaviors towards a social group. The influence of these biases is seen everywhere, including educational forums. Public school systems in the nation reached 49.8 million students grades pre-k through 12th in 2014 and the Department of Defense Education Activity 's (DoDEA) facilities 2014 enrollment was 83,000 students. Exploring the demographic information and…

Whitewashing has become increasingly prevalent in modern entertainment, and Hollywood continues to cast Caucasian actors in minority roles. This pattern of casting encourages cultural appropriation, and also prevents ethnically diverse actors from becoming established in the film industry. The term “show business” in reference to Hollywood is extremely applicable; studios are so concerned with the “business” aspect that they often employ celebrities for the sole purpose of capitalizing on their…

Introduction Racism is the thinking that capacities and characteristics can be given to individuals just by their race and that some ethnic groups are better as compared to others. Racism and Prejudice have been applied as powerful weapons empowering judgment of others in times of controversy and war, and notwithstanding between financial downturns (Alvi, 2012). This paper presents a broad picture of research on criminal equity in Canada factored on crime and race. The idea of race in Canada…

descent and other criteria for what Weber refers to as an ethnic group (Weber 1920, 385; 389). This is not to erase the importance of regional differences in Germany. Rather than being comprised of many different ethnic groups, Germany was considered a conglomeration of different groups that essentially came from the same descendent. While this played into the rhetoric of Nazi Germany, one must be careful not to place this belief in common ethnic decent only on the development of National…