Ethnic Germans

try to justify their racism by turning it into jokes. This only increases racism in our world. Television easily influences its viewers’ thoughts and beliefs about races. There are several ways on how the digital media portrays certain racial and ethnic groups. There are even television shows that purposefully use racial stereotyping as a way to increase their shows ratings. Racial stereotyping is highly affective on those being negatively portrayed in the media. It is also very influential on…

“How to date a brown girl” Our personalities or rather the qualities that make us who we are derive from different aspects in our quotidian lives. In other words, we are a product of our time, surroundings, and in some cases factors such as race and social class play their own role. However, what if the so-called essence of our being was merely determined by our race and social class? An assumption in which individuality plays no role. This could also be seen in Junot Diaz’s “How to date a brown…

We are stereotype as lazy people, dangerous, problematic, etc. Also, the immigration policies seem Mexicans immigrants as the largest ethnic group immigrating to the country. Unfortunately, we don’t have the same fate of other countries to enter ease to the United States. For example, Salvadorians are beneficiated with the TPS, which is a permit to reside legally in the country. However…

After reading the article, “Mirrors for my Daughter’s Bookshelf,” I feel a little embarrassed when I think about diversity at my school in Washington Heights. As many New Yorkers know, many of the residents in Washington Heights are immigrants (i.e. first, second, or third generation immigrants) from the Dominican Republic. Thus, the vast majority of my students are from the Dominican Republic, and they can speak both English and Spanish. Each day, I learn something new about the Dominican…

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 studies from their course catalogue. The results of this action came as a shock, as many individuals were outraged and took action in many different manners, barring the question: should educational institutions consider reinstating Mexican American Ethnic…

Both the movie Crash and Treuer’s From Rez Life: An Indian's Journey through Reservation Life discuss the issue of ethnic relations. Even though these works have a different approach to the issue, they are also quite similar because they show how people from different ethnical and cultural backgrounds interact with each other. Moreover, they also show how members of the same ethnic groups deal with each other and their own cultural identity. Both of these works show how the process of…

be rude and stereotypical to label an individual simply by the way he or she looks or dresses. Not only is this an ethical issue, but a weakness as well, I will not be able to take into account students who are mixed raced, or may appear to be one ethnic group but is either the complete opposite or does not identify as such. Another ethical issue involving race would be to ask complete strangers personal questions in regards to racial issues. Like I mentioned before racial issues has become a…

Asian Americans is on the rise in the United States. This continued rise of the Asian population compelled me to research a culture that is one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in America. If the population of Asian Americans continues to grow. especially in the city that I teach, it would be very important to know about their ethnic backgrounds so I could better assist them in the…

How Racial Humor Facilitates Racial Interaction Berger has once said that, “since the first men and women noticed they were different from the second, and ethnocentrism and a sense of ethnic identity appeared, ethnic jokes have been popular” (53). Ethnic humor has been one of the most frequently used comedic techniques. It not only appears in all kinds of comedic forms but also regularly pops up in daily life, especially in countries that are racially and ethnically diverse like the United…

Amelia M. Paget’s People of the Plains is an insightful exploration of Indigenous culture on the plains of Canada during the early twentieth century. Paget, having grown up immersed in the culture of the fur trade, was able to communicate with the Elders of the bands she interviewed in a respectful and comprehensive way. Her attention to detail unquestionably shows in People of the Plains. This is proven to be true, as Sarah Carter stresses in the Introduction that Paget went to great lengths to…