Ethnic groups in the United States

Being an immigrant is not easy. Growing up in a foreign place where one does not speak the language and is completely unfamiliar to the culture can definitely put oneself in isolation. Identity has been one major issue for most minorities and immigrants. Should they maintain their culture or should they conform? This is why community is crucial for them as it is the closest thing they have to their homeland, especially for the immigrant youths who are in a constant battle in adapting to the…

Often America is referred to as “The large melting pot.” The idea that the United States is a land of opportunity, where anyone can come and blend into a new breed that is uniquely American. However, the cultural diversity in America is clearly evident, from physical characteristics to different religious beliefs and customs. As minorities immigrate to America and attempt to assimilate into society, they are forced to live a pluralistic lifestyle of blending with the current society, while…

Stage 2 - Ethnic Identity Search (Moratorium) The main process of exploration occurs in the second stage and requires the most effort to advance from. Phinney & Appelbaum (1990) described this stage an “intense process of immersion in one 's own culture through activities such as reading, talking to people, going to ethnic museums, and participating actively in cultural events” (p. 503). A person going through ethnic identity search is expanding himself/herself through interactions with…

of Shia Muslims, however, it is not a Muslim state. There is free religion in this diverse country but it has not yet been directly integrated into the government. In the last three years, Indonesia has seen drastic changes within its political structure, leading to an increase in support for the government within the local populace. With this support, more political players with different…

past, but most of them were predominately of Anglo-Saxon origin in their ethnic makeup. The nations that "founded" America would end up justifying their killing of the aboriginal people as a means of saying "well God ordained it". From this, even though America claims to not be based on ethnicity it ends up being a founding value of the United States and we possess a de facto founding ethnicity from the start. This founding ethnic culture remained the basis of American culture for a long period…

Americans are people who settled in the United States with Vietnamese ethnic origin. According to Pew Research Center, the Vietnamese American population was estimated at 1.6 million in 2010, making up nearly fifty percent of the overseas Vietnamese population in the world. They are also the fourth-largest Asian ethnic community in the United States after Chinese Americans, Indian Americans, and Filipino Americans. The majority of Vietnamese migrated to the United States after the end of the…

culture, while remaining specific by maintaining that that these connections are either through origin or culture. Every ten years the U.S. government issues the decennial census which collects data about the actual count of people residing in the United States. The census contains questions pertaining to race and ethnicity, and these items are collected as self-identification items. When self-identifying on the census, respondents must choose the race or the races…

An American Language Policy Should there be an official language policy that needs to be adopted such as in other countries? The United States was created by immigrants that left their countries due to many reasons. With such a diverse crowd of ethnicities full of culture and traditions, it would come as no surprise that these ethnic groups would have their own languages. One reason some feel that there should be a language policy is that of communication problems between two different language…

First I will start off by defining minority, race, and ethnic relations. Minority is defined as a part of a population differing from others in some characteristics and often subjected to differential treatment - Merriam Webster. Race is defined as a group that is identified by color ones skin, physical characteristics, and genetic traits passed through birth - Dictionary.com. Lastly ethnic relations is defined as "The study of social, political, and economic relations between races and…

the founding of the American colonies and, later, the United States, as driven by the quest for freedom when initially, religious liberty and later political and economic liberty. Still, from the beginning, American society was equally founded on brutal forms of domination, inequality, and oppression which lead to the foundation of two models of minority exclusion known as Apartheid and Economic/political disempowerment. Apartheid meaning “state of being apart” is “An official policy of racial…