Ethnic groups in the United States

Introduction The United Nations, whose responsibility is to protect the basic human rights of all individuals, created the Millennium Development Goals to meet unprecedented basic needs of the poor in different areas of the world. The United Nations’ first mission: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Nonetheless, how is an entity such as the United Nations, or individual nation-states at that, supposed to break down systems that were meant to be permanent? A system can be described as an…

Similarities and Differences of the culture in New York and Hong Kong Being well-known international cities in the world, New York and Hong Kong share a similar population history, which reflects a similar ethnic diversity and cultural characteristics. New York was explored by the European in the 16th century at first, and being ruled by the British from 1664 to 1783 (Burrows, 1998). Hong Kong was also one of the colonies of Britain in 1842, making culture of Hong Kong a combination of both…

Americans of Mexican origin living in the United States while Latina refers to Americans of Spanish and other countries origin living in the United States. Latino is a term that refers to a mixture/combination of people from various countries, for example, Brazil, Portuguese, and Spain, etc. who are living in the United States. Therefore, the two groups have their origins somewhere else, but they both live in the United States and constitute the large general group referred to as Americans.…

What makes Buddhism unique from other religions is the way it is able to adapt and expand into various cultures. Buddhism in America is growing at a rapid rate. According to Pew Forum’s United State Religious Landscape Survey, Buddhism has climbed to the 3rd most practiced religion in America, below Christianity and Judaism. Between 1990 and 2001, Buddhism has grown 170%. This rapid growth is said to be due to the conversion of American…

Ethnicity, race, and nationalism are interrelated. We cannot define one concept without elaborating how the other concept plays a crucial role to shape up its agenda. Such as, Nationalism derives from ethnic beliefs, and from cultural religious similarities. Nationalism deliberately supports it 's deeply enrooted believes towards ethnicity. However, race plays a significant role to distinguish the differences between ethnicity and race itself. Due to that, people feel a sense of identity, in…

negative stigma and perception attached to them. Starting from around the time of World War II, 1939 to 1945, many people of Latino descent decided to serve for the United States in its military. They were easily considered the largest ethnic group to have served during World War II and Latinos won more Medals of Valor than any other ethnic group. While the men were serving their country overseas, Latina women were working on the home front in factories and as medical or administrative…

To reduce or eliminate racial and ethnic health care disparities, and to address some of the social factors that affect health care outcomes has always been controversial. The Affordable Care Act was put in place to remove some of the inequalities in healthcare. Yet despite many efforts…

hierarchy that perpetuates ethnic inequality by privileging a dominant group. This privileged group is the white male, whose culture permeates into all other cultures, subtly altering and eliciting behavior to conform to the white male’s norms. Social scientists acknowledge and personify such influence of and social pressure from this culture with notions such as “white gaze,” which depict a totalitarian view of social relations (Flores & Rosa, 2015, p. 150-151). To challenge the ethnic…

family back in the United States. This book commences with an American family in Los Angeles, whose roots lie deep in Jewish culture and religion. Daniel Gordis is a Jewish professor who is invited to study in Israel for a…

One of the things that interested me the most after reading chapter four was the co-ethnic nuclear families. Japanese and Korean people used a system named picture bride were a women who lived in japan would get marry with men who lived in America without knowing each other. Basically both men and women would give a picture of them self’s and their information then they would perform a ceremony and they would get marry. The whole purpose for this was for the couples to submit a passport…