Ethnic groups in the United States

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In the clips prior to Lone Survivor Navy SEALS trainees ring a bell three times and place their helmets on the ground when they want to voluntarily fail SEALS training. By the end of the clips there’s a line of helmets showing that there is a limited number of sailors that passed. Sailors are exposed to extreme conditions in the training such as drowning and cold, yet they don’t go through these challenges alone as they are surrounded by their fellow trainees. This brotherhood in the face of…

Questions: 1. United States Diversity Index: Briefly define the diversity index (in your own words). Note: if you click on the small arrow next to the layer title, you will have an option to ‘show item details’ … this may help. The USA Diversity Index 2016 is a choropleth map that highlights the racial and ethnic diversity of the United States in 2016 based on country, state, county, ZIP code, tract and block group. When two people are chosen at random from the…

1. Realizing that cultural diversity is not the same thing as demographics, what is the changing nature of cultural diversity in the United States today and in the likely future? Cultural diversity refers to the differences in how individuals in different societal setting do things. Cultural diversity is a wide facet of social sciences that focuses mainly on how individuals appreciate the various phenomena that exist in the society. Demographics on the other hand is a general science that deals…

The intermarriage of the Asian Americans Simona Nissan San José State University The report The Rise of Intermarriage, of the Pew Research Center from February 2012, presents that the popularity of intermarriage in the United States increased compared to the past. The report mentions that “about 15% of all new marriages in the United States in 2010 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another” (Wang, 2012), while it is more than double comparing to the 1980…

Students should be required to take courses in minority or ethnic studies as part of all college degrees. The unique value of ethnic studies in colleges and universities is that these studies promote respect and understanding among races, support student success, and teaches critical thinking skills. Ethnic studies by and about racial minority groups presents a different narrative that is shaped partially by histories of oppression in the United States. as well as by the intellectual and…

Ethnic Restaurants as Cultural Ambassadors. Ethnic restaurants are very influential in the representation of foreign cultures. They act as important socializing agents presenting foreign ways of life in a different country. Due to their foreign themes, the restaurants provide the clients with comprehensive and precise details about the foreign culture. They offer the clients an opportunity to explore the foreign ways of life in their country. The restaurants provide insights to various ways of…

People believe in their work, and they do the hard work. The American people plan things ahead, and they become successes in their future. The American people are independence, and they make their own decisions. Americans follow the time and its value. In Nepalese culture, people are family-oriented and the family value is greater than the individual value. The Nepalese people believe in god, and they wait for the people who can do their work. The Nepalese people do not plan any things and do…

1. Why did people who lived in the US before get upset when new groups arrived? – People who lived in the U.S. before got upset when new groups arrived because it, “…seeds of new and serious social problems for American society and an acceleration of its social and structural breakdown” (2). In addition to a “structural breakdown,” it also made Americans worry that the United States was no longer prepared to manage its borders and therefore losing the idea of American standards. Americans also…

There is no greater manipulator in the United States than the media. Ranging from radio, television, newspapers, and the internet, they reach out to the vast majority of the United States population. As a result, they shape the thoughts and opinions of many Americans. The media is a broad field that employs millions. Given the tremendous influence they have over American citizens, it only makes sense that the media should be a fair representation of the American people. However, like many other…