Ethnic groups in the United States

simultaneous forms of ethnic identity among Asian Americans. One common example is the ethnic identity of Japanese American after World War II. Many Japanese American adults who were imprisoned during WWII initially discarded their identity after the end of war, to avoid any association, shame, or embarrassment with being imprisoned. However, after movement to demand…

Islamic students captured 52 American students and held them hostage with the demand that they return Shan to Iran. This situation created a major crisis among the United States and Iran relationship. After the intervention of Algeria as a mediator, the hostages were released after a captivity of 444 days. The relationship with United Sates was not smooth ever since. A year…

Disparities in health care among different racial and ethnic groups are of major concern. The Hispanic/Latino population has the highest uninsured rates compared to every other racial group in the United States. This is worrisome because this population makes up 17.6% of the United States total population (U.S department, 2017). The article, “Young Adults Seeking Medical Care: Do Race and Ethnicity matter?” by Barbara Bloom and Robin Cohen (2011) does not provide a fair assessment regarding…

Asian-Americans and other groups ethnicity no matter how long they stay in the United States are face the same stereotype. This perception not only to devalue the experience of the other ethnicity groups, and how difficult issues that Asian-American can be to confront. Some of them mentioned the experience the related of immigration and personal account of racism and discrimination in the United States. One of the three conversation documentaries films, Latinos has mixed gap to define their…

population is still Hong Kong Chinese, more and more diverse students from different ethnic backgrounds arrive in Hong Kong to study resulting in a multicultural classroom environment (McInerney, 2010). Some researchers raise concerns of the current unequal student engagement level amongst diverse ethnic groups in classrooms. This concern may result in a skewed educational attainment for certain ethnic groups. Dr. McInerney states that student engagement is heavily associated with…

Genocides have been studied throughout history as deliberately killing a group of people based on their racial identities. The question that arises is why do people commit such crimes against innocent people based on their race or religion? The two international relation theories that relate to atrocities such as genocides is realism and constructivism. Although, genocides can describe the social construct of how idea has shifted over time, the realist perspective best explains the decision…

new areas with differing cultures face this problem of assimilation. This brings up the issue how does native language loss effect later immigrant generations that have assimilated to the new culture. Later generations are faced with the problem of ethnic identity, and issues of possible maintenance of heritage language. There are currently many studies that are looking into how assimilation of American culture is affecting immigrants and their descendants. Generations of Immigrants To…

Berry discussed acculturation on the individual level and stated that even despite there being overall changes within a group, individuals’ changes might vary significantly as a part of these collective changes. The theory emphasizes factors prior and during the process of acculturation (pre-arrival and post-arrival) as well as highlights group and cultural (i.e. political context) and social/psychological (social factors, language proficiency) variables that influence the acculturation…

some states have set laws embellishing strict penalties; to safeguard Arab-American citizens. I believe people still demonstrate racial profiling of most races based on their appearance alone, but there tend to be a substantial act of discriminating for the Arab-Americans if they identify a robust ethnic faith and not white. According to Parrillo (2014), “some assume both strong ethnic and white identities, while others report a strong white identity, yet distance themselves from the pan-ethnic…

Transition of power from communist regime to an Islamic regime came through war as well. The Mujahedeens who fought against communists for Islamic ideology were now fighting for ethnic supremacy. After the collapse of communist regime, ethnic conflicts became the new reality in Afghanistan (Cramer and Goodhand 2002). Ethnic alliances were formed against one another. Before the start of the civil war, most of the Mujahedeen parties rejected several attempts of a power-sharing government. Even…