Ethnic groups

I am a first generation immigrant to the United States from South Korea. While my ethnic identity is Korean, I consider my cultural identity a blend of both American and Korean as my cultural experiences have occurred in the United States while my roots lie within Korea. Considering my family’s origins as a whole, my family has resided in Korea. It was the decision of my immediate family to move to the United States for better opportunities. The Korean culture’s unique foods have been around my…

is powerful, it can be use to make one’s feel happy or harm one or more group of people. We human uses language everywhere in society to make peoples feel horrible or use our own greed to make one’s feel less than an animal. It is in our mindset to accuse and blames other people of other race. We stereotypes many group of people because they are different. We show our dislike towards them by persuading and manipulating a group of people to think that they are higher and lower people such as…

Humans already have to go through enough hardships in life, they do not need the extra burden of dealing with racist people telling them they do not belong here. Kids should be taught and given “equal educational opportunity no matter what their race, ethnic background, religion, sex, or whether they are rich or poor, citizen or non-citizen” (Right to an Equal Education 1). All human beings should be treated equally and kindly. Acts of racial discrimination include the failure to provide…

I suppose that as I am not solely Korean, I do not look blatantly different to others, but I look it enough to see it when I glimpse in the mirror. Sometimes I think that is the worst part; people do not always recognize my Asian blood and therefore do not hold back in the degrading comments that they make. When I was in high school, especially when sitting in a history class, there were always classmates who felt the need to throw out inapt remarks, hoping to receive a laugh from the class. A…

Race and culture are terms that are often used interchangeably, however there are distinct differences between these words. Often, one’s culture is assumed based off their race, yet culture is not always a direct result of race. Race is constant and cannot be changed, and comes with birth. Culture on the other hand, is adopted, and is the result of one’s surroundings, friends, home, and beliefs. While it is true that races are often associated with a certain culture, being of a certain race is…

Rudy Acuna is one of the founding fathers of the Chicano Studies Department that supported the incorporation of Ethnic Studies in our college education. In his interview composed by Dr. Gabriel Buelna, Acuna mentioned all the work and effort that has been put into building Chicano studies. Acuna declared that the future of Chicano Studies is in jeopardy due to the…

Reality Is a Slap on the Face The themes of class conflict and racism manifest themselves in Flannery O’Connor’s “Everything That Rises Must Converge” in a few different ways. The characters’ attitudes, the focalizer’s behavior, and the images come together to reflect discriminatory outlooks and beliefs. The racism of white people is obvious in the short story. It is evident in Mrs. Chestny’s speech and mannerisms. Mrs. Chestny thinks that the world has become chaotic because slavery has been…

There are currently 7.6 billion people living on Earth all with a different story to tell. Everyone has a different background and goes through obstacles throughout their life. Some people share these experiences for others to be inspired and understand their backgrounds as human beings. Humans can relate, adapt, and learn from these events by simply taking the time to hear one's journey. Whether that be in a book, a documentary, or even just a one on one conversation some people tend to open up…

In the echo of the American identity individualism can be considered as one of the loudest componets. However that was not always the case. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter the division between the community and the individualism is discernible. In this essay I will explain how the puritan society contrasts with the main heroine’s personality and how the two characters who sinned differ in the path they took upon. The story takes place in Massachusetts Bay Colony in a strictly…

Introduction For the purposes of this paper, I have chosen to focus on the social identities of white privilege and my Mexican ethnicity in discussing how both have impacted the construction of my social identity. Patton, Evans, Forney, Guido & Quaye (2016) mention in their text “Student development in college: Theory, research, and practice” Ferman and Gallego’s model of Latina/o Ethnoracial identity, which I will use to discuss how my Mexican ethnicity and being white has shaped my social…