Group processes

Embarking on a new journey is driven by hope, hope that you will find love, refuge, a chance to start over, to live out your dreams, to get a better job and education. Hope motivates us to get out of bed each morning and be the best we can be. Hope is what brought our ancestors here all those years ago and what still inspires people to immigrate from all over the world to live out the American dream. In Not Everyone is Chosen, Waters shows that each wave of immigrants experience different…

The youth hyperculture that constitutes the technologically dependent age group known as Generation Y is an amalgamation of a countless myriad of societal institutions, all shaping the growth of individuals in this increasingly modern 21st-century; in particular, I have been shaped by two social groups: the family in which I was born and raised, and the school-setting peer group of which I was a member of during my secondary education. Both have been tremendously invaluable to my childhood and…

I am a fifty eight year old white native American woman, and the middle child of three. I have an older sister, by fifteen months, and a brother who is three years younger than I am. I should probably mention that my dad was not around when I was born. My parents raised our family of five in Port Huron, Michigan. I am a member of the Baby Boomer generation. As an American, we traditionally are passionate about baseball, hotdogs, apple pie, and lemonade, but being an American means much more…

How Growing up Poor Made Me a Better Person I really hate it when someone is looked down upon because they are poor and in a lower economic class than someone else. If you look up economic class it is defined by Wikipedia in the following way: the term "social class" is usually synonymous with "socio-economic class," defined as "people having the same social, economic, or educational status," e.g., "the working class"; "an emerging professional class." Or the lower, middle and upper class. We…

This lead him to live how he does now, he states, “if the world is only going to see a fox as shifty and untrustworthy, why try to be anything else”. This is relevant in our society today as many people of minority groups are treated certain ways by people of different races and even people of their own race or, portrayed a certain way in movies and TV. This leads them to believe they are expected to be that way and closed off from realizing who they can be outside…

classes to utilize are also given unfair hardships. Upper/higher Class Being in the upper/higher class group was a life changing experience. We were very privileged and respected by the Housing Authority. The Housing Authority was very generous and offered numerous amounts of times to pay for some of our building permits. I noticed with our group, even though we had the most money, we were the only group who actually took about 20 minutes or more planning what building permits we needed. I…

the merit of the company. If a company were only to be worried about not discriminating against a minority group, then they would tend to lean back from hiring the white male and would hire, for example, the African American female. But while doing this, if the white male were to be more qualified for the job, then that is an argument of merit. Members of a historically discriminated group are in effect not necessarily victims; consequently, compensation is not necessarily owed, in this case,…

apparent separated affects between classes of Americans, and some of this divide persisted into the Second World War. The effects of both events affected everyone from African Americans, to Jews, and wageworkers to labor Unions. Above any other groups, ethnic groups and immigrants endured significant hardships due to white hostility. With an increasing want for government provision from citizens, the decade rang in with new policies to boost the economy. The policies were put into place to…

Norwegian and several black African people in another” a Quote from Jared Diamond (1994:191) that explains how humans can be characterized in different races by some arbitrary category decided by someone. Other ways to classify humans into different race groups might be by the type of fingerprint left, the existence of a particular gene, a geographical location,…

All students should have access to a diverse staff. The Assessment of Diversity in America’s Teaching Force (2004) states that more minority teachers would provide opportunities for all students to learn about ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity, and serve as cultural brokers, able not only to help students navigate their school environment and culture, but also to increase the involvement of other teachers and parents. It is important for all students to interact with people who look and…