Ethnic groups in Pakistan

Ralph Ellison once said, “There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale (Ellison).” With the help of great sociological researchers like Dorothy Robert and Michael Root, this paper will expose some of the sociological fairy tales that exist here in today’s society that have been perpetuated for decades. Many times, there are issues that…

above, empires are not homogenous like nationalism, they are heterogeneous being that empires can span over large areas where there are different cultures. Indigenous people are adopted into the nation’s culture and in many cases cause problems with ethnic Europeans being that these Africans, who were considered lesser human beings by many nationalist Europeans, were being integrated and being made equal to the Europeans. This blending of cultures can be seen in Fadma Amrouche’s writing as she…

To conduct this research, forty five picture books (fifteen for each ethnic group) were systematically selected and reviewed by insiders who were a part of the culture or ethnic group that each book represented. Once the results from the study were published, the authors were able to make some evaluations about how these three cultures are portrayed in multicultural picture…

Recently, a huge stride was achieved for indigenous women across the world, as the first indigenous Mrs. Universe was crowned. Not only that, but the 25 year old Cree woman from Alberta is using her win as a platform to speak up against the injustices that aboriginal women face, focusing in on the staggering 1,181 missing and murdered females. (insert stat citation). Ashley Callingbull competed in beauty pageants at a very young age. She managed to win the Enoch crown before her 9th birthday.…

Ethnicity, race, and nationalism are interrelated. We cannot define one concept without elaborating how the other concept plays a crucial role to shape up its agenda. Such as, Nationalism derives from ethnic beliefs, and from cultural religious similarities. Nationalism deliberately supports it 's deeply enrooted believes towards ethnicity. However, race plays a significant role to distinguish the differences between ethnicity and race itself. Due to that, people feel a sense of identity, in…

Provinces with many different ethnic groups such as Omega may feel that the number is too small to accurately represent each ethnic group. Conversely, provinces such as Gamma who have less of an ethnic population, may feel that the 300 member congress is too large and expensive. For Beta to pass this aspect of the constitutional convention, it is necessary for us…

Van Krieken et al. refer to identity as “who people think they are and also how we see others” (2010, p.255). The term ‘Aboriginal’ was originally used by the British colonists, to identify the diverse tribal groups of Indigenous peoples inhabiting the Australian continent. Although the term was originally used to disempower the Indigenous peoples by way of categorisation to fit into the colonialist view, it has remained today as part of the nations legal definition and also as a term many…

preservation of their ethnic identity difficult (Withman, 1993: 37). An ethnic group can also actively change aspects of their ethnicity. This happened in the 1960’s when the Hausa traders in Nigeria converted en masse to a Stufi sect called Tijaniyya to justify a separate Hausa quarter (Joirnema, 2003: 38). A particular part of an ethnic identity or the identity as whole can bet strengthened or weakened or parts can get changed, all because it is in someone’s political interest. But ethnic…

For the past couple of years there have been many debates of global issues, debates that have occupied the minds of many researchers, but whereas the other debates usually came to a conclusion globalization remains an unending debate. The debate is whether or not globalization is an advantage or disadvantage. The manifestation of globalization begins at various points of a country’s political and economic standing. Karunakar P. describes it as; “The origin of globalization which is an invention…

thoughts and behaviors. Can masculinity really be simplified into a standardized list of this or that? I concluded that personal experiences contrary to previously established social norms, have caused people to reevaluate definitions of masculinity. Ethnic Identity is given at birth and each culture comes with a set of values and norms for how people should behave. In the book Man Up by Carlos Andre Gomez he explains experiences he has had being raised…