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language minority groups. It required that voters with a lack of English proficiency, be assisted and given voting material that is in another language other than English. In 1982 Congress amended that Section 5 be extended for another twenty-five years, to ensure that the rights would continue to be protected. This amendment also meant that Section 2 of the VRA was made permanent. Section 2 absolutely prohibited any voting practices that discriminated race, color, or language minority groups.…

disengaging from negative feedback; members of minority groups comparing their outcomes with members of their in-group and not to the out-group; intentionally focusing on dimensions of group characteristics that are positive; and that minorities can increase their identification with their in-group as means to increase self esteem (Sanderson & Safdar, 2012). A study by Harris and Fiske found that if individuals perceive a person to belong to a group that is low in warmth and competence, regions…

professionalism to a variety of backgrounds including women. What makes this study distinguishable from the rest is that it primarily focuses on a single group. It would have been great to see this study or any other study also focus on other minority groups as well. Nevertheless, this study is distinct because it does focus on at least one minority group in the field. This study also helps to see how different all the statistics the previous sources stated are when it comes to women. For…

and national origin. Women, people of color, non-christen, and non U.Scitizens has historically not been given the same employment opportunities as those in the majority. Thus affirmative action is a practice designed to ensure that member of these group have opportunities for employment and advancement equal to those in the majority.firstb and foremost it is important to remember that affirmative act was design to right the wrong of the past. Therefore affirmative action must be remedial. This…

action is supposed to be positive discrimination (to where the majority is the one being discriminated instead of the minority), but in the end discrimination is discrimination regardless of the way someone views it. This alleged positive discrimination is meant to help minorities with equal job and educational opportunities. A minority would be any person who is part of the smaller group of people which can include race, ethnicity and gender;…

participants; other racial groups were limited in their representation. One factor to consider is that Caucasians on average are more likely to seek mental health care than other minority groups; minority groups do not seek mental health service due to limited access and poorer quality of care. This may explain why samples are predominantly composed of Caucasians. The issue still remains, though, that the data from these studies may not have applications for other racial groups. Utilizing…

today is that police have a very distinct culture. When looking at definitions of police culture we see a few particular phrases that are most commonly frequent, these are the abuse of power, absence of culpability, discrimination of particular minority groups and internal solidarity (Terpstra, 2013). Looking at the modern policing styles of Australia we can recognize two distinct types; this is Community policing and Zero tolerance policing. Zero tolerance VS Community Policing and Police…

religion, and sex. However the university of California designated 16 out of 100 spots (16%) of admission for minority applicants in an attempt to create a diverse student body. This minority group included Blacks, Chicanos, Asians, and American Indians. Despite some of these minority applicants having lower test scores than Bakke they were accepted solely on the fact that they would contribute minority status to the university. Therefore the universities admission process violated the Civil…

population makes the U.S prison population the largest in the world as of today. The prison population explosion that happened during the time period of 1972-2000 was caused by many factors, however this population was disproportionately that of minorities. During the 1980’s there was a nation-wide crack epidemic that caused crime to get out of control (Pettit & Western 2004). The people demanded a get tough approach on drugs and crime. That’s when the government delivered by declaring a War…

the same grades, background, and program of study and one might get a scholarship mainly because they are not white. In my high school, there were opportunities to obtain a scholarship if you applied. Quick catch, the applicant had to be a minority in the race group. As a person of the majority, no matter how well my grades were, I could not apply for the scholarship. This is one of a few disadvantages that whites experience.…