Essays on Ethnicity

Genocides happen when an expansive number of individuals are killed in an “ethnic, national, racial, or religious group”. These mass killings are usually in an attempt to wipe out either an entire or a certain extent of this specific groups existence. Genocides lead to grave…

This week’s conference about sustainability was very interesting, since there were guests with different backgrounds like culture, nation, environment, mountain, cities and their speech was based on “how to sustain the spheres on which they are focusing”. It was interesting to have brain storming in…

With all the ethnic groups out there, the three I chose to discuss are Chinese, Muslim and Native American. All three of these ethnic groups have fascinating and similar beliefs when it comes to their religion, diets, and pain and health practices. Although Asia has…

Today, the idea of immigrants or diaspora is not a new concept. People who had immigrated to Canada, US or to another country in the past already have their second, or even third generation. The topic about how difficult it is for the second generation…

In 2004-2005, there were 215 total actions and the highest ethnicity shown as percent of action was black male, with a percentage of 52%. The second highest disciplinary action was between disorderly conduct and student assault. Black male had the highest percentage of action in…

South Africa is known to be the world’s multicultural country with 11 official languages and more than 13 cultures co-existing. Though South Africa has integrated and accepted the various cultures and traditions, all these cultures and traditions have specific ways of dealing with social, economic…

I was born in the beautiful country of Indonesia. Indonesia is a multicultural and diverse country, she holds many culture and traditions but everything that’s perfect always holds a secret. For starters,I have always been told that, when my brother and I was born, the…

There has been evidence of some botanical remains of Grains/ seeds on the ancestral site (present day village) dating to a period of Late first millennium BC to early first millennium AD in New Phor. The present settlement of different villages in the area, are…

The Toda people assign a small pastoral community that live on the remote Nilgiri plateau of Southern India. Preceding to the late 18th century, the Toda close by with other communities, including the Badaga, Kota, and Kurumba, in a loose caste-like community organization. The Toda…

Final Essay (Study of Power in Race and Ethnicity) Culture, generally speaking, is a way of life of a particular social group. Herder, an influential German writer during 19th century had even defined culture as ways of life of particular groups, nations and period. (D.Denby,…