Minority group

writing to you to address a majorly controversial topic, Affirmative Action. I would like to ask you the question, do we all have equal opportunities? The answer is too often no from minority students. Affirmative Action is a popular debate that has to do with colleges and workplaces letting in more women and minorities. I am going to argue that Affirmative Action should stay legal and should be allowed in more cities and companies. It gives everyone an opportunity at a higher education and it…

specifically minority students in need of educational opportunities compared to privileged students. Unfortunately, Caucasian applicants, who do not obtain any benefits from affirmative action, have blamed the process for their college rejections. Many of these students who claim to be “disadvantaged” have voiced their opinions to court, and the constant pattern of lawsuits…

Affirmative action was created in the 1960s in order to give the groups that had been marginalized for years a leg up in order to help them out. The mentality behind its creation is best summarized in a quote from a speech given by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 in which he says, "you do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say you are free to compete with all the others, and still just believe that you have…

any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, or national origin”. Now all affirmative action has done is start discriminating against majorities instead of minorities. Affirmative action was created so no one was discriminated against, not just shifting the discrimination of the minorities to the majority (Elizabeth Slattery). 7 The USA has had slavery for 188 years and segregation for 99 more (USA Today). Affirmative action is only 56 years old, meaning the US has…

be played by Caucasian people. However, this changed in 1950 by three men named Earl Lloyd, Charles Henry, and Nat Clifton. These three young men were the first African-Americans and minorities to play the game of basketball in the NBA. It took the NBA fifty-eight years to make this change to allow the minority group African-Americans to play basketball. Since the 1950s succeeded in allowing African-Americans to play basketball, African-Americans have dominated in participating in this sport at…

As more of the world becomes accessible, intercultural communication is becoming an evolving field of study that combines the interactions between individuals and groups from different cultural backgrounds. It has taken a considerable amount of time to get to the diverse point that the world’s society is at now, with more acknowledgment, acceptance and discussion around diversity. However, one can question is what ascribes and defines this identity that we acknowledge as being diversity. It can…

I also consider my identity multidimensional because it is made up of more than one factor or dimension of myself such as my gender, race and religion. Based on the article the meaning of a both a dominant and a subordinate are, a dominant group is a group that has a lot of power and authority in society and can also determine how they can use this power and authority. This power and authority can sometimes be used to determine things such as whose history is taught in schools or finding the…

scholar specifically named Thomas Sowell believed that Affirmative Action had a reversed outcome than what the creators had intended. He asserts that “Policies initiated to help the disadvantaged ended up helping the privileged within the preferred groups instead. Policies intended to insure intergroup harmony led to intergroup resentments and violence.” Also he asserts that Affirmative action was not needed because African Americans were already receiving good jobs. Sowell also asserts that…

us. But the “Model Minority is a tease” (lines 36- 42). In these few lines Chin stress the idea that in the American society people tend to labeled the Chinese immigrants group as the model of minority which leads to Chinese children are intelligent in education, statistic and demography in compared to another minority group. However, Chin discovers the way that America view all Chinese immigrants are smart and it is not true. In addition, Chin indicates the term “Model Minority” as stereotype…

family oriented group and many have been Catholic for generations. Latinos are becoming the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. Latino elders are the most traditional in their beliefs and values must be respected. They prefer to get their health information through church, tv, radio, word-of-mouth and health fairs. Fear of deportation, poverty, poor health and little to no insurance contribute to Latinos not accessing services. . Latinos are a family oriented group incorporating…