Ethnic Germans

Over generations, culture has changed drastically. Culture can be characterized as our feeling of having a place with a specific society or ethnic group. As the world is progressing cultural norms are being retested and reclassified. In today’s society people want to do things their way and not the way their ancestors have been doing. Years ago people were very narrow-minded and did things traditionally or the way that the society accepted. This was exactly the case in the film Bend it Like…

I am a first generation immigrant to the United States from South Korea. While my ethnic identity is Korean, I consider my cultural identity a blend of both American and Korean as my cultural experiences have occurred in the United States while my roots lie within Korea. Considering my family’s origins as a whole, my family has resided in Korea. It was the decision of my immediate family to move to the United States for better opportunities. The Korean culture’s unique foods have been around my…

Language is powerful, it can be use to make one’s feel happy or harm one or more group of people. We human uses language everywhere in society to make peoples feel horrible or use our own greed to make one’s feel less than an animal. It is in our mindset to accuse and blames other people of other race. We stereotypes many group of people because they are different. We show our dislike towards them by persuading and manipulating a group of people to think that they are higher and lower people…

both. These theories helped others have a view of them from different perspectives. I find the Conflict Theory to me more clearly at justifying the relevance of both race and ethnicity. There are what’s called racial groups, minority groups, race, ethnic groups, all these are a vital part of a culture. Now to put in the perspective of the Conflict Theory I will be explaining the relevance it has in race and ethnicity by pointing out the strong supporting views such as; discrimination, prejudice,…

indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color. Perpetrators are often unaware that they engage in such communications when they interact with racial/ethnic minorities”. It is essential that we reflect and consider whether we are perpetrators ourselves, be it consciously or subconsciously. (Sue et al., 2007, p.…

Most of the participants stated that they had observed no differences. However, there was one participant that had observed some inequities of other ethnic groups by their administrator. P7 was one of the participants that felt her principal treats her just like all of the other teachers by stating, “I have not encountered such. My administrator has always treated me the same as my non-African American counterparts.” P1 was very to the point, with no elaboration on the subject, “No.” P2…

introduced to them I realized that we all have different backgrounds. 2. What were you taught in your family about people from other ethnic or racial groups? How were differences dealt with in your family?…

considered to be a melting pot of many ethnicities. These ethnicities have helped United States grow, develop, and change by working together. From the late 1800s to the early 1900s, the Progressive Era, progression had become possible by looking past ethnic background and uniting the people as Americans to accomplish equality in rights, benefits, and work for all. However, it must be noted that these accomplishments of color America where not made by verbal dispute for equality but by working…

artists, swindlers, cheaters, crooks, or squatters, most of them were notorious for doing such things which is why people tend to very prejudice toward them. But that doesn’t mean that we should discriminate Gypsies just because some members of their ethnic groups do these sorts of things. This is just one of the many reason that proves that stereotyping exists based on some…

Have you ever watched television shows and noticed the genders of the main characters? If so, how does the producer create their personalities? Does he or she consider the actors as “crazy” or does he or she consider the actors as airheads? Two articles that discuss this topic are “TV’s New Wave of Women: Smart, Strong, Borderline Insane” by Heather Havrilesky and “Male-Bashing on TV” by Michael Abernathy. In Havrilesky’s article, she talks about how women are portrayed as “crazy” on television…