Ethnicity

by all types of ethnicity, race, gender and so forth. We’ve all come to learn how to appreciate all the things in our life. Being of West Indian background, I consistently get confused about what I am or what I am not. I’ve come to appreciate so much about my ethnicity that I did not care about before. Traditions that I follow are widely being viewed at with such awe from other races and backgrounds. My family plays a big role in how I interact with others of different ethnicity and race. I…

both the host country and the country of origin. Ethnicity and Race in this paper are of great importance because they are important elements that have been used in society in the US and can either be used to help a particular group or can be used against them and will hurt them in terms of employment, integration and interaction into the various particular societies, and the degree to which they will be acceptance into this new society. Ethnicity is defined as the cultural…

Assignment 1, Task A 1a. What do the term of culture and ethnicity mean to you ? Culture For me culture means that a group of people shares language, values, ideas, beliefs and many more aspects. Culture is the outcome of the beliefs one group shares (Morris, 2000) and it grows not with the number of people which belong to the culture but rather with the shared beliefs and values. Many immigrants where coming to germany over the years and they contributed there knoweledge and values to the…

explore how race and ethnicity is perceived in Singapore, and specifically what social significance entails when race and ethnicity interchange or manifests itself to become the other and provide social definitions to form social reality. It is argued that the extent of the interchangeability of race and ethnicity simply rest on state discretion whenever there is a need to combine the Malay/Muslim community into a single entity. By analysing the interchangeability of race and ethnicity in the…

Complementary Field Exam RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN: APPROACHES, INTERPRETATIONS, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS Race and ethnicity are both important aspects of identity in the modern world. Given their centrality in today’s identity politics, the study of race and ethnicity has naturally found its way into the pages of studies on the ancient Mediterranean. The Greeks and Romans are thought to have been the progenitors of ideas and philosophies which the modern “Western” world…

Chapter five in The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, an Crime in America by Samuel Walker, Cassia Spohn, and Miriam Delone (2012) summarized how the court system makes decision based on someone’s race. In the beginning of the book it stated that, “In 2009 the incarceration rate for African American males in state and federal prisons was 6.7 times the rate for whites” (Pp. 2). On page 60, it talks about the general perception of a person who is incarcerated is typically thought of as being…

Introduction Hong Kong is often recognized as an international city and one of the most significant financial centres globally. Yet this does not imply the city itself is culturally diverse. A close look at the demographics of Hong Kong reflect that its population is rather mono-cultural. According to the government’s 2016 Census, ethnic minorities constitute a mere 8% of the whole population, whilst 92% is Chinese. When this 8% is broken down, the majority are foreign domestic helpers of…

Sociologists define ethnicity as “a term that describes shared culture--the practices, values, and beliefs of a group”. I describe my ethnicity as a shared culture in which will “include shared language, religion, and traditions, among other commonalities”. That being said, my ethnicity would be consisted of the Vietnamese language, practice of catholicism, and the annual celebration of Vietnamese New Year “Tet”. Surely, I would include my family’s country of origin of Vietnam, even though I…

opposite.” Race refers to a person's physical characteristics, such as bone structure and skin, hair, or eye color. Ethnicity, however, refers to cultural factors, including nationality, regional culture, ancestry, and language. No one is born with a choice of choosing which race or ethnicity they want to belong. We have to come across the fact that our religion, color, culture and ethnicity is different and learn that we all belong to one race, the human race. As a newcomer…

What have you been taught about race, ethnicity, class, gender, & sexuality? This question is deeper and more complex than it appears, I have been taught many things about each of these topics, most of all how each category describes a person. We all learn that all people are equal, or should be treated equally I learned that through words. Through actions, I learned that is not true. Through experience I learned that a persons race alone is supposed to tell something about them, about…