The Nation

Identity plays an important factor role in our everyday lives. Identity is the set of behavioral or personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a member of a group. People’s identity defines their identifications; in what they associated themselves with. Identity may be classified by many categories such as religion, race, sexuality, gender and ethnicity. Some identities are developed later in life, such as languages, wealth status and social status. The issues with…

Ethnicity can be described as one identifying oneself in a particular racial, ethnic or cultural group, while also adapting to their traditions, customs, as well as their beliefs systems. In the novel Dark River by Louis Owens, ethnicity, gender roles, and the idea of history and the past are prominently shown throughout this novel. Owens use of both symbolism and imagery in this novel can be considered remarkable. His use of words actually can make one think they’re in the novel and…

Losing a language and culture will advantages the financial prosperity of its speakers to make a living. To avoid being poor and have jobs and salary, those people who left Kenya and came to the United States should learn American culture and language. For instance, I went to Miami in Florida last month, and I saw that the most taxi drivers are African American. Those drivers had to leave their real language and culture to find a job and have money to live. Another example is about our house…

American Vs Cameroon American is huge geographically; this is the uniform reaction to foreign visitors from most countries. Cameroon is often referred to as Africa in miniature for its geological and cultural diversity. The difference between America and Cameroon are the culture, education, and environment. Cameroon’s culture is integral part of Cameroonian ceremonies, festivals, social gatherings. On the other hand, cultures in American include both conservatives and liberal elements,…

The four major models of ethnic relationships include group separatism, cultural pluralism, ethnic hierarchy, one-way assimilation. These models explain the relationship between different groups of people in the society. The four models apply to the American Society and have been depicted in the works of literature as well in films. Among such works of literature and films includes the novel Rez Life: An Indian Journey through Reservation by the David Truer and the film Crash by Paul Haggis.…

In USA Today, Sara Moniuszko says Danny Masterson fired from Netflix's ‘The Ranch’ amid multiple sexual assault allegations. We really don’t know if he did it or not but from what’s being told he assaulted more than one women. He may not be guilty because he’s never been accused of foul behavior but then that’s more a reason for him to assault women. Sexual assault to me is a big thing, I feel like rapist deserve death penalty without no doubt no matter if it’s the first time or not. No one…

Identity There are many influential factors that shape an individual’s identity. • Relationship between Identity and Race and Ethnicity—her argument on social identity. Identity is a very complex recipe that powerfully shapes an individual based on the reflection of one’s self, Race and Ethnicity, social views, environmental setting and one’s culture An individual’s identity is shaped socially by peers and others close to the individual’s life. All of of us in society have specific…

Connections Extended essay: "I think it's really important that we share this world and we're connected to it" - Tim Hetherington Introduction: It is important that we know that we share this world and are connected to it. We all have our suburb community, school communities, our state community, and national community, but most of all we are all apart, little or big, black or white, female or male, African or Australian, all apart of the bigger picture, the global community. I think that it is…

Every person spends their life searching for an identity. Sometimes that identity is straightforward, other times it is obscured by problems and attitudes and cultural perspectives that are beyond the individual’s control. Race, religion, skin colour, geopolitical and socio-political constraints that make the journey tortured and hazardous. The school I attended in Australia can be described as extremely multicultural. Every one in my class (including the teacher) is a migrant or refugee from…

Throughout American history there have been few recurring themes that have ultimately proven to be constant and never changing. The few that have remained consistent are American Identity, Culture and American Diversity. The theme of American Identity exclaims the views of the national character of America as well as the exceptionalism of American viewpoints which recognize contextual differences of what it means to be an American. The Cultural theme focuses on the diversity of individuals,…