Ethnic Germans

The Development of Identity and Self-Concept When individuals look into a mirror, there is much more looking back besides just physical characteristics. As complex organisms, with high levels of thinking, feeling, and social functioning, humans have both unique, inherent traits, as well as unique life experiences. Both of these areas mold together into the development of one’s identity and self-concept. At no other time is the formulations of identity and self-concept more important than during…

Reality Is a Slap on the Face The themes of class conflict and racism manifest themselves in Flannery O’Connor’s “Everything That Rises Must Converge” in a few different ways. The characters’ attitudes, the focalizer’s behavior, and the images come together to reflect discriminatory outlooks and beliefs. The racism of white people is obvious in the short story. It is evident in Mrs. Chestny’s speech and mannerisms. Mrs. Chestny thinks that the world has become chaotic because slavery has been…

During the Victorian era, one of the underlying issues that society was faced with is race. In fact, similar, derogatory characteristics were allocated to different groups of people such as white, middle class women, Blacks and members of the lower class. These different groups of people were seen as irrational, superstitious and sharing the same physical qualities like skin colour for example. However, race in the book Jane Eyre applies not only to colour, but nationality as well. In addition,…

There are currently 7.6 billion people living on Earth all with a different story to tell. Everyone has a different background and goes through obstacles throughout their life. Some people share these experiences for others to be inspired and understand their backgrounds as human beings. Humans can relate, adapt, and learn from these events by simply taking the time to hear one's journey. Whether that be in a book, a documentary, or even just a one on one conversation some people tend to open up…

In the echo of the American identity individualism can be considered as one of the loudest componets. However that was not always the case. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter the division between the community and the individualism is discernible. In this essay I will explain how the puritan society contrasts with the main heroine’s personality and how the two characters who sinned differ in the path they took upon. The story takes place in Massachusetts Bay Colony in a strictly…

Cebuanos, Kapampangans, Bicolanos, Warays, Hiligaynons, Zambuangeños, Ilocanos, Surigaonons and the Moros (Wikipedia). It is a common knowledge to everyone that these groups of people live together as Filipinos in peace and harmony, but there is one ethnic group that wishes to have its own government. The Moros or Bangsamoro people are the Islamic people of Mindanao who at the time of conquest and colonization were considered natives or original inhabitants of Sultanate of Sulu once thrived in…

Compare and Contrast Essay “Cultural identity is a dynamic and a complex feeling and sense of belonging to one or more ethnic groups. It defines the way an individual identifies or positions himself in different cultural context” (Unknown). In James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans and Conrad Richter’s The Light in the Forest; both stories convey many similarities and differences to compare and contrast between the Native American and White cultures. Culture is usually determined as…

that of the dominant ethnic groups in Baltimore. A survey that was carried between 2011 and 2012 indicated that only five percent of the white students were suspended from the institution of learning compared to the 16 percent of the students from the minority groups (Pietila54). This level of racial and ethnic discrimination in the learning institutions lowers the quality of education and consequently affects the performance of the students belonging to the segregated ethnic group or race. In…

Research Proposal I will like to propose an argument about how athletes are portrayed through the media specifically about race. The impact that race has played on professional sports is something that cannot be disregarded. With myself being half black and half white, I take notice in the way the media portrays each race differently. Specifically, blacks and whites. African American athletes are portrayed in a negative, biased light and the way they present the athletes through the mass…

With different cultures and ethnic groups comes with different expectations of that group that is not true. For instance, the generalization that an African American man has more athletic ability than a Caucasian man. In the Article Benefits and Challenges of Diversity in Schools they point how we apply generalizations about a certain group to one particular person in that group. We basically have a bad habit of making the action of a minority represent their ethnic group as a whole. It is hard…