Ethnic groups in Africa

Although an individual’s experiences may shape one’s positionality, it doesn’t determine positionality. My positionality does not necessarily align with the positionality stereotypes of those who identify in the same groups. My complex personal experiences and background all contribute to my positionality and how I view the world, but doesn’t definitively determine them. In this essay I will argue of all the factors that shape my positionality, the three that have impacted me and my…

Interracial Marriage Interracial marriage is more accepted now as people are embracing diversity. We are taught it at school and at work, but it wasn’t always that way. As different cultures and ethnic groups came to America, ones exposure to different cultures and ethnic groups resulted in a gradual acceptance. Unfortunately, when it came to people that were black, they didn’t come here freely – they were brought here and faced harsh criticism, racism, and discrimination. When I grew up in…

However, their particular revivalist methods should not be seen as the only ways in which Islamic peoples and groups reformed or reinterpreted Islam in order to meet the current political and social demands. An imperative question to ask is in what ways have other movements not typically included under the Islamic movement umbrella have been indeed Islamic, promoting a specific type of Islam? Ethnic nationalist and secular movements, while typically ascribed as being antithetical to Islamic…

The options on how to research, economic inequalities among and within ethnic and racialized groups in Canada, as well as how to improve the current 2016 Canadian Census of Population are endless. However, in order to get an accurate, clear, and reliable representation, I believe that certain aspects need to be focused upon. With this, the reader will get a better understanding of how certain independent variables impact the one dependent variable in focus, this being, Economic Inequality. As a…

Sam Fathers is a prominent father figure, teacher, and representation of an individual with a mixed racial heritage during the time period of the short story, “The Old People” in Big Woods. He possesses the blood of African Americans, Whites, and Native American, as he was born to a Chickasaw Indian chief, Ikkemotubbe, and an unnamed quadroon mother. Several years after Fathers’ mother was pregnant and pronounced married to a slave in which Ikkemotubbe acquired, he sold “the man and woman and…

debated around the state over multiculturalism in the classroom because of ethnic study classes that are in the schools. This heated argument began when a new Arizona law that was being made, that stated that they will ban ethnic studies from public an charter school. The reason behind the creation of this law is because certain individuals saw these classes as a "threat" to overthrow the government and "promote" ethnic solidarity over other students due the topics and books that were being…

Ethnicity and class plays an important role in nowadays society, it aims to group the same type people together. Some of the way to classify or distinguish people is by their race, economical statue, language and also their habitat. Although the word ethnicity and class aren’t any negative word but the outcome of classifying people, often lead to a bad influence on someone life development. During the WW2, the Germany considered the Jews as a degrading class of human being, resulting in an…

criticalness is connected to it. For instant, Basotho from South Africa, a name will acknowledged a social virtue; this origination may be apparent for a standout amongst their proverbs which say. “bitso lebe keseromo” (bad name is ominous, In Zulu, traditionally name givers usually give names “personal names” after a certain events or circumstance that were relevant at time of the child birth. IsiZulu is major Bantu language spoken in South Africa with the estimated 10 million speaker. Zulu’s…

The term ‘Cultural Diversity’ refers to the presence of cultures different to the majority culture in a society. There are two approaches to cultural diversity: Multiculturalism, which institutionalises tolerance and inclusion by law and uniculturalism, which allows cultural minorities to express their culture but regards the majority culture as national ethos. The opposite of cultural diversity is the approach of monoculturalism, which aims for a homogenous society by only entitling the…

Humanity’s predecessors were forced to pass judgements on different groups in order to stay alive. After centuries of colonization and cultural cultivation, these elementary prejudices have evolved into a systematic issue: racism. Though prejudice and racism hold similar connotations, there are slight nuances in their definitions…