Ethnic Germans

Based on student responses from the questionnaire, students are spending significant amounts of time participating in extracurricular activities. Students are spending more time participating in arts, which includes band, orchestra, and fine arts and sports offered at middle school level like football, basketball, track and field, and swim. A substantial amount of students spent zero hours participating in extracurricular activities, seen in Figures 3 and 4. Figures 3 and 4 also demonstrate…

My worldview has been shaped and evolved over the time in my life by my beliefs, values, and my experience. In addition, influence has mainly impacted on how I viewed on the world such as in human nature and attitudes. Initially, when I was a young child, I thought that the world was flat based on what I was taught about Christopher Columbus and his theory in school. I was so “conditioned” with the same routine on the daily basis with my homelife with my family and school with my peers to the…

which leads to the topic of racism. All over the country, I’ve heard people attribute racism to parents teaching their children a certain way and that is what ultimately leads to it. However, the scientific study of prejudice explains that racial and ethnic groups are far more alike than different. It also explains that differences between the two are actually smaller than among members of the same group. Psychology explains what explicit and implicit prejudice while reflecting back on how it…

The power of race and the beauty of ethnicity has shaped and developed America into the influential nation it is today. As the child of two immigrants from Poland, I can define myself as Caucasian and 100% Polish America with roots that stem back to Rzeszow and Wiesbieza, Poland. In an era of multicultural inspiration and education, interpersonal treatment of my own race and ethnicity can be my roots, I can easily identify myself with other Polish Americans through analyzing the representation,…

Racial Ambiguity on Racial Discrimination Racial discrimination has been an issue throughout the history, especially in 19th century in the United States of America. The two texts Passing (1929) by Nella Larsen and “Recitatif” (1983) by Toni Morrison engage racial discrimination in related responses. The two works are focused on issuing unclear ethnicity. It will generates questions that why defining race is so important in the time of the works. Both of the writers are carries the same theory…

Most people would agree that stereotyping someone is an unjust action, however people unknowingly stereotype every stranger they see. When walking down the street and seeing a homeless man sitting down asking for change, most people would assume that the homeless man is living an unhappy life or has a drug addiction. This is an example of stereotyping, based off the man just appearing to be homeless. However, stereotyping does not necessarily always have negative impact. Stereotyping is an…

Dalton Conley’s memoir narrates how growing up white in the projects of NYC affected how he perceived race as he grew older. Growing up being one of the few white boys in a mostly black and Puerto Rican neighborhood on Manhattan’s Lower East Side made his childhood out of the ordinary. Conley opens up the book with an incident that underlines his experience with color in his childhood. In an attempt to show his unawareness to color, three year old, Conley whose mother was pregnant at that time,…

families faced:” When the train stops, they give Papa not a chisel, but a shovel. He shakes his head, no, no, no — but already we owe for the train” (Fisher 82). Many immigrants worked in the mines of West Virginia and they were mistreated due to their ethnic background. These immigrants migrated to America to seek freedom and greater economic opportunities, however in reality they faced employment discrimination because of their ethnicity. The mine guards mistreated the immigrant workers,…

Race is a common factor when commenting on a person who is trying to define who they are and identify themselves in a group of people. The fact however lies that race is not a biological concept as stated by and is rather a social perception. The way one chooses to identify their race and who they are as a whole plays a part on who they are and sometimes even their social class within the life they live. Through racialization and racial formation both in and out of the Americas even Susie Phipps…

The idea of having diversity in world-wide unique system has been controversial for decades. In England and Wales where ‘the white men’ stereotype was predominant from the beginning was highly debated; and not everyone agreed on changing this culture. Groups including disabled lawyers, BME- black minority, LGB – lesbian, gay, bisexual, women, persons with different religious views or persons from disadvantaged social backgrounds, with lower family income had always struggled to secure experience…