Ethnic groups in the United States

labor contracts. The action of the Black Codes to segregate an ethnic group and proclaim them as criminals and their behavior as a crime became known as criminalization. Although, criminalization continues to be enacted on different ethnic groups the Black Codes didn’t persist in American society. However, today we are able to witness criminalization at a larger scale with the prosecution of African American, Latinos and other ethnic groups. Two of the main events that happened this year were…

discusses the nature of ethnic, Joane Nagel discusses the nature of ethnicity and its relationship to culture in the United States. Mikhail Naimy’s short story, “His Grace” expresses a message that supports Nagel’s claims about ethnic identity and cultural construction. Nagel acknowledged that the socially constructed aspects of ethnicity are flexible, elective, and constantly negotiated. By delineating the Bey’s interactions with Roukus Nusour and Abu ‘Assaf, Nagel’s argument that ethnic…

that discusses the social construct of race and ethnicity in the United States. Social construct is considered to be an idea formed by human thought and interaction. Race is a biological entity, but it has been demonstrated that the perception of race can be constructed by society. Historically, race and ethnicity have been socially constructed in the United States in a divisive and prejudice manner. Despite the fact that the United States is nation of immigrants, many citizens are treated…

phase 2, and determining which cause exactly is the most important one in causing the 27 year conflict in Angola. The root cause for the conflict in Angola, I feel, is the deep rooted ethnic tension that was stemmed even long before the Portuguese colonization, but became more outstanding…

In the United States, its citizens elect representatives to both chambers of Congress. These representatives are intended to make decisions in order to benefit their constituencies. However, the government of the United States is and has historically been whiter than the United States itself and no longer reflects its current demographics. According to the Pew Research Center, “whites account for 83% of the new Congress but just 62% of the population” (Krogstad, 2015). While minority groups…

are an immigrant? Everyone is a immigrant because everyone was born into a nation. All of the groups of different ethnic and cultural groups have been immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. Although “A Quilt of a Country” and “The Immigrant Contribution” are similar,they have many different key characteristics. For example,in the essay “A Quilt of a Country”,it states that “The United States was built in nobody's image because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant,like…

Retention in Depression Treatment among Ethnic and Racial Minority Groups Alain Ricoh Flores Contra Costa College  Abstract A study that includes the focus in the ethnic-racial minorities with a sample of 561 participants in the United States such as the African American group is primary subject of the research. The study portrayed the premature discontinuation of psychiatric treatment among ethnic-racial minorities is a persistent concern. But the previous researches that was focused on…

Zuni, Mormon, Spanish-Mexican, and Texans didn’t believe that their ethnic group was superior to the others then they probably would have shared cultures and ideas, eventually losing the things that make their cultures so special. Ethnocentrism could have also been a disadvantage for the people of New Mexico, because when one group feels superior to the next, they miss out on the knowledge that they could gain from other ethnic groups. Just life if someone feels that they are better than…

an interesting place with all different kinds of ethnic/racial groups. The problem is how the experience of becoming an American is so different for ethnic/racial groups. I find very troublesome to see how people were treated for just because they were different. Let’s dive right into it on how the Germans and Japanese ethnic/racial groups…

Across the board, Asian Americans outperform all other ethnic groups in education. They also choose to enroll themselves into upper level math courses when offered more often the other ethnic groups, as well as, do twice the amount of homework when compared to other ethnic groups. Asian Americans represent just roughly two percent of the nation’s population. However, the number of Asian Americans that are freshman enrolled at universities and institutions across the nation have a much stronger…