Essays on Ethnicity

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Official statistics show that black and other ethnic minorities are more likely to be stopped, arrested, and imprisoned than white people. Left realists argue that black people do have a higher crime rate because of their greater relative deprivation and social exclusion, whereas neo-Marxists argue…

The United States was created on the “racial structure” as a hierarchy system in order to keep African Americans in poverty. Sociologists have criticized the United States for maintaining a “racial structure” despite having anti-discrimination laws that were intended to prevent prejudice and discrimination practices….

Immigration policy fluctuated greatly between 1930s and 1980s. In 1930s to about post -World War II, immigrants were greatly discriminated and only few could enter the country. Great Depression hits Canada in 1930s, the unemployment crisis made Canadians particularly intolerant of immigrants. Immigration would only…

Fritz Staal (2003) and Fernando Zialcita (1999) attack the “Asian Values” rhetoric as being empty. Staal criticizes Mahathir Mohamad for using “Asian Values” as a way to jail Anwar Ibrahim. He also points out that there has been (especially in the past) a vibrant homosexual…