Minority rights

ethnic minority groups (Jovanović, 2005). By common consent it is currently established that being a minority implies being numerically inferior to the dominant majority in the…

historical discriminations, affirmative action has, inherently, built reverse discrimination against Asian and white males. Due to a limited number of accepted applicants in high-level institutions, the preference that affirmative action gives to minorities have had dramatic effects in the acceptance rates based on race, with the Asians and whites face much harder competition amongst themselves. Consequently, as Ron Unz points out, affirmative action serves as quotas on Asian Americans, and…

gender, and other minority groups play a key role in politics, significantly in Britain. Three specific chapters from Sex Lies and the Ballot Box: 50 things you need to know about the British Elections, shed light on the key roles of ethnic minority MPs, gender differences in voting, and ethnic group norms, which effectively illustrate the importance of these elements in political system in Britain. Maria Sobolewska, author of the chapter titled “The British Obamas: Ethnic Minority MPs,”…

the New World, they were seen as inferior; as a result, African Americans were discriminated against. This discriminatory pattern continued, eventually leading to the Civil Rights Movement. Many believed action was necessary in order to ensure the equal treatment and opportunity of African Americans and those of other minority groups, so legislation was enacted. However, by doing so, reverse discrimination against Caucasian citizens in the eyes of employers and admissions offices of colleges…

Affirmative action is important in higher education for minority groups in that it is a critical need to successfully develop role models and achieve diversity. According to the United States Census Bureau, more than half of all U.S babies today are people of color, and by 2050 our country will have no clear racial or ethnic majority. Communities of color are tomorrow’s leaders in many areas in society. For years minority groups in the United States are generally disadvantaged in reaching their…

better. Congress have passed Acts to make America an equal and free country. Some of the Acts that helped create the country that we live in today are the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Immigration Acts of 1965. Although the Acts have different main points, both sought to put a lid on discrimination, create more opportunities for minorities, and push America to be a better place. During the year 1965 there was a lot of violence against blacks. They did not have the same privileges as the…

Lack of adequate support for faculty members can be perceived as discrimination by the student. The feeling of discrimination was reported in several studies as a barrier to success for minority nursing students. For example, a study by Sedgwick, Oosterbroek and Ponomar (2014) involved interviewing 41 minority students about experiences during clinical. “Clinical instructors who used discriminatory language inhibited students’ sense of belonging” (Sedgwick, Oosterbroek, & Ponomar, 2014, p.…

Introduction: The Butler by Lee Daniels, is a movie loosely based on the truth regarding the extraordinary story of an African American man named Eugene Allen, amid the Civil Rights Movement. Allen was employed as a domestic servant or butler at the White House during a time when cultural diversity was not accepted. Allen is portrayed by a fictitious Cecil Gaines (actor Forest Whitaker). Cecil grew up during a tumultuous time in the 1920s in Macon, Georgia, and was the son of a sharecropper. As…

Affirmative Action is defined as when a minority is put ahead of a non-minority. Affirmative Action is often used in college admissions and in employment decisions. The purpose of Affirmative Action is to fix 8discrimination by putting the non-minority at the disadvantage. This leaves one to wonder if Affirmative Action is fair to non-minorities, and if it is effective at what it’s trying to accomplish. While many believe that affirmative action is beneficial to minorities, affirmative action…

Minorities are viewed as group of people who are considered different from the majority of people of society, and are perceived to have less social power than the normal white person. There are numerous characteristics that allows individuals to be distinguish whether or not they are part of the minority group through factors such as race, religion, culture, and sex. Minorities typically do not have the same social power as the normal white person would have, and thus be placed at a disadvantage…