Minority influence

grades and those who have participated in extracurricular activities to get accepted. Minority students, such as Hispanics, blacks, and Asians, are being favored by many schools solely because they are the minority, even if they are not achieving as much. In an article written by David Sacks and Peter Thiel they say “Over the past quarter of a century, Stanford has been discriminating in favor of racial minorities in admissions, hiring, tenure, contracting and financial aid.” (Sacks & Thiel 1)…

Education is the most important influences on health in the contemporary United States. With a good education, you don’t only understand the risks that substances like smoking tobacco or drinking have on your life, but with a better education you are usually provided with a better job or career and given more coverage with insurance and health care. People who are poorly educated usually end up getting a job that doesn’t have the best pay, that loses their interest and doesn’t challenge them,…

socioeconomic status, religious beliefs, etc. As people come to understand their standpoint and their positionality, it is easier for them to understand how one’s position in society influences how and why they communicate with others the way they do. A better understanding also affects the ways in which this influence can be changed to better interact with those of other cultures,…

An investigation into whether the knowledge and understanding of food labelling are associated with obesity in particular consumer groups. INTRODUCTION Over the past 20 years, the rates of obesity and overweight have increased significantly (Visscher, 2001) and is diagnosed as one of most serious threats to public health of the time (Katz, 2005). Differences in related policies and health behaviour may be one of the causes (WHO, 2000) or lack of food labelling knowledge in the process of…

The relationship between the majority and minority in America has been a shaky, rocky road. Whites and all the other races have had quite an interesting relationship, with lots of ups and downs. The history reveals many nasty, shady events that can be placed on both sides. Because of such an unsteady past, much of the concern today can be seen through protests, marches, and riots across the country today. Many minorities feel as if they have been getting the short end of the stick for a long…

Even after the slavery’s abolition in the U.S, different communities such as black and white people lived apart, and that segregation, specifically between minorities in general and especially Blacks and Whites in America, contributed to racism. The minorities as well as black people were so oppressed, even several generations after, the wounds are still active in their hearts. They are victims of discrimination which means according to Henslin “Unfair treatment…

(Wilkins, V. M., & Wenger, J. B., 2014). Having a diverse work and school community helps expose people to different ideas and cultures that are different from there 's and gives individuals a different perspective of several topics. For many centuries minorities including blacks, Latinos, women, and homosexuals have been placed lower on the totem pole as compared to white Americans (Green Cage., 2015). There have been several civil rights laws and Supreme Court cases that have attempted to…

This is a heated age and the policy of affirmative action is a controversial topic. Ever since it was first introduced in the 1960s, the court has affected the use of affirmative action significantly because its rulings upheld the policy’s constitutionally and made it more acceptable to the public. To begin with, it is important to acknowledge that the court was not the only arena in which affirmative action policies have been challenged. It has also been challenged in arenas such as college…

consequences they carry. Research has suggested effective ways to avoid the negative aspects of prejudice, such as: 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…

According to Atkins et at., the model of Minority Identity Development consists of five stages, which are Conformity, Dissonance, Resistance/Emersion, Introspection, and Integrative Awareness. Conformity refers to the point when African Americans do not resist discriminatory practices or behavior, refuse to acknowledge that these practices exist, and might even welcome them as the norm. Dissonance occurs when a minority feels perplexed as they cope with the realization of the system…