Ethnic groups in the United States

The genocide in Rwanda was an extremely tragic event in 1994, claiming over 800,000 lives. There are a multitude of factors that are culpable for this genocide. This genocide was largely due to the ethnic tension in Rwanda, as well as different political groups being power hungry. There are a few reforms and principles that should be put into place so that there is not “another Rwanda” in the 21st Century. These include nations supporting one another. If nations across the world worked together…

political, social and economic change. It was an era of prosperity, however not long lasting as the Great Depression of 1929 loomed. Frivolity, fun and the flapper emerged as people discovered new ways to spend their newly found leisure time. The United States entered a time of good feeling and even the introduction of prohibition did not inhibit people from having a good time. America had become a consumer society due to newly found affluence and with this came mass culture. Americans were…

forming coalitions with allies across ethnic groups, public and private sectors to ensure America has a just society for all races and classes.…

between Malaysia and the United States of America with their cleanliness and their family culture such as extended family and special family. Based on (Hofsted 1997), culture refers to the knowledge, experience, feelings, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the macrocosm, and material objects and possessions taken on by a group of the great unwashed in the course of generations through individual and group striving. Besides…

Mexican origin people have interlocked with the beginnings of the United States since the Anglo-saxon’s era of Westward Expansion. This little known fact has affected and continues to affect the identities of these people. Within the Great Depression, the identity of Mexican origin people was categorized as part of the Mexican race and then later, with continuing changes in politics in the World War II time period, their identification as part of the Mexican race shifted to that of the white…

to understanding the condition of all Latinos in the United States. Two of these concepts include the anti-Latino racism, which is lost in racial discourses that remain exclusively concentrated on the black-white binary, and ethnorace, which is a hybridized identity. The black and white binary is where the conception of race does in fact exist in America; however, it either exclusively or predominantly only involves two fundamental racial groups, the Black or the White. The black and white…

Tragically in the next five years the world will be faced with new challenges. However, the United States will be faced with the most. The most eminent challenge the U.S. will face is HIV/AIDS. Like majority of the american population I have baffled around with the topic. Most people who speak or make comments about HIV or AIDS are conversations of Ignorance. I never personally knew anyone who has contracted the virus but I have always been subconsciously curious about the topic. HIV is a virus…

Many domestic conflicts emerged after the breakdown of state authority, leading to the security dilemma in much the same way that it exists in the international system. Because the people are not able to depend on the state for their security, they organize along ethnic lines and engage in self-help behaviors to enhance their own security. This creates oppositional relationships across society, increasing the…

disproportionate burden as well. The experience of Western countries where women and men have less inequality than in developing countries has shown that girl students do better than boy students in schools and tests. In countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, female students outperform and outnumber their male counterparts in schools and universities. Yet, women cannot emulate…

The new American lifestyle, there are many cultural problems especially in adjusting to the new American life which is controversial to the Arabic culture. One of the most affected is gender roles between Arabic men and women and boys and girls from the same family. A very little percentage of Arab Americans especially those from rural areas are preserved their dressing, little socializing between children of opposite sex, respecting the elderly, and no dating among teenagers. Arabic culture…