Essays on Assimilation

The model of assimilation refers to a group of people integrating into a new culture assimilating its host's cultural elements such as language and customs, losing some or almost all of its original cultural elements. An example of this model is the case of Argentina which has open immigration policies and received a growing number of Chinese. These integrated in such a way that they have assimilated their hosting language, Spanish and the way of Argentinian living, doing business, and social life. The first generation of immigrants continues speaking their language. However, they left behind many of their cultural ...

Migratory History It is said that ethnic Chinese first appeared on the western shores of North America during the period of the Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines, which is about between 1521 to 1815. They had accepted commissions as being businessmen, sailors and fishermen on the Spanish galleons that traversed the Pacific Ocean between the Philippines and Mexico (Brownstone, 2). Several numbers of ethnic Chinese were able to reach California as this state was still the territory of Mexico until 1848. Future expeditions to Vancouver by John Meares, a British fur trader, brought more Chinese into Vancouver around ...

Introduction

The book mentioned above gives a continuation of the captivating autobiographical aspects of Charles Eastman. It tells the story right from his Indian boyhood, to his years while in school and lastly his life as a medical doctor. As a result, he becomes one of the best known and highest paid Indians at the time. Notably, he devoted his entire life to government service by providing assistance to his fellow Indians so that they may sufficiently adapt to the ways of the white world while at the same time maintaining their culture. It is on this basis that the ...

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Primitive and alienated from the rest of the world. Hegel viewed Africa as a world enveloped on a dark mantle of the night. It is a land shut-up from the rest of the world and often presumed to be static from development perspectives.

Stereotypes associated with Africa includes being under-developed, unhistorical, wild, and untamed.

Definition of terms Assimilation means an adaptation of a minority group to the norms or directions of a larger group. In this case, the way of life of the minor group becomes similar to that of the dominant one (Brubaker, 534). Acculturation is the contact between individual members of groups with different cultures that produce a ...

Qualitative Research

Brief Description The interview was conducted among two people on the topic “Interpretation of the migration crisis”, which turned to be quite challenging due to the sensitiveness of the topic. First of all, it was problematic to find participants, as the majority thought that the answers may affect their social or professional life, even though I made it clear that the participation is anonymous. Secondly, one of the respondents refused to continue answering the questions in the middle of the interview without explaining the reasons. However, as this option was discussed before the interview, it did not affect the ...

Bacteria refer to the regnum of prokaryotes (Sundararaj, Mudaliar, Anthoniraj, Kannan, Muthukaruppan). For the current moment, it accounts for more than ten thousand kinds of bacteria. The bacterium is recognized as one of the most ancient of living organisms, arising about 3.9 – 3.5 billion years ago. Bacteria have the substantial variation in the ways of metamorphic and energetic metabolism. Thus, autotrophs can synthesize all necessary organic molecules from non-organic compounds, whereas heterotrophs demand active organic compounds to transform them. The biggest degree of heterotrophs belongs to intracellular parasites. They are called saprophytes (Sundararaj, Mudaliar, Anthoniraj, Kannan, Muthukaruppan) and can ...

Racial inequality has always been rampant in many societies, as it is reflected in white privilege seen not only in the United States but also in Canada, Australia, Israel, and in many countries in Asia and Africa. In white privilege, there is racial advantage on the benefits of the Whites, as they enjoy greater earnings, life expectancies, and access to high-quality education and healthcare services, as compared to the Blacks. This is the effect of what is called stigma—a sociological concept that Erving Goffman developed in his book in the year 1963. Kowal (2011) repeated the words of ...

Racial inequality has always been rampant in many societies, as it is reflected in white privilege seen not only in the United States but also in Canada, Australia, Israel, and in many countries in Asia and Africa. In white privilege, there is racial advantage on the benefits of the Whites, as they enjoy greater earnings, life expectancies, and access to high-quality education and healthcare services, as compared to the Blacks. This is the effect of what is called stigma—a sociological concept that Erving Goffman developed in his book in the year 1963. Kowal (2011) repeated the words of ...

Gender is a very powerful category and one that many different people have used in order to explain culture and society. The role of women in society had for the longest time been constricted to the private sphere, the home, taking care of the children and being the primary Linchpin that could take care of the family and be the emotional and often moral center of the family. Women in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have gained more rights and have fought for equality with men. When Korean families immigrated to the United States in the ...

Psychology: Baddeley’s Working Memory

Introduction – Baddeley’s Working Memory Short term memory is an important aspect in human lives as it influences behavior and outcomes in daily lives in more ways than one – of which the role played in development of working memory is an important factor. Even though short term memory is considered to have significant differences from working memory, they are considered to be related by eminent psychologists. The most common factor behind this perspective is that both short term memory and working memory are involved in the storage of information temporarily in an individual. Working memory can be best described ...

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Thesis Paragraph

Immigration has generated interest both in political and in research worlds. The topics have been shrouded with ambiguities considering the dynamics of security and economic constraints. America not like any other nation has culturally diverse populations that coexist harmoniously curtsey of multiculturalism initiatives by the government. The integration of immigrants into the society has slowly evolved to be a complex exercise that requires security scans and consideration of socio-economical impacts of such settlement in the country. This paper identifies two stages of immigrants’ integrations, screening, and settling. The government should not perforate ...

A Closer Glimpse on the Key Terms

As previously observed, it is possible to draw parallels between the following essays and movies and play “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education” by Paulo Freire and Dead Poets Society, “The Achievement of Desire” by Richard Rodriguez and Six Degrees of Separation, and “Ways of Seeing” by John Berger and The Matrix. All three works raise a number of important issues, manifestations of which may be found on the example of the characters of these films and plays. Thus, there are such key terms notions as critical thinking, education, class conflict, racial divide, and power of perspective, which can be ...

Executive Summary

Ecosystem-based management (EBM) is a place-based way to utilization of natural resources with the aim of protecting and restoring the energy, flexibility and activity of the entire ecological environment to benefit its inhabitants. EBM is a great tool to preserve the environment in a better way that will not destroy the economy and humans. Movements of traditional environment have improved the ecosystem at the expense of economy, which has been viewed as a failure. People cannot continue repeating the same mistakes again. This is where EBM approach comes in where the ecosystem would be protected while at the same ...

Information can be represented through various ways; scientists have undertaken research studies and experiments and published their findings in different scientific journals or databases. Similarly, individuals with little or no scientific knowledge have developed an interest in research. They have increasingly adapted and interpreted scientific research articles so as to meet the demands of the layman. In this paper, a comparative analysis of a scientific research article and its adaptation is presented so as to determine the difference in the ways in which information is presented in each. The scientific article Cashew apple juice supplementation enhanced fat utilization during ...

Abstract

The following examines Mexican American and African-American cultures and the ways that these two cultures interact the dominant white culture in the United States. While on the surface these two cultures might seem to have much in common (given that they are frequently discriminated against minorities in the United States), in point of fact they are very different in the ways that they assimilate into American culture. Anthropologists and sociologists have traditionally used words like “integration” and “acculturation” to describe the process in which immigrant cultures ultimately blend in to (and accommodate themselves to) the dominant culture of the ...

Jean Piaget's cognitive theory is an extrapolation of developmental psychology in children that explains the stages through which children develop. The theory is defined by a tripartite composition of; schemas, adaptation processes, and stages of development. Schemas, the building blocks of knowledge, are the settings of the brain for absorption of knowledge, a kind of a page where a child writes new information. Adaptation processes include assimilation and accommodation of information, whereby, assimilation happens when new information can be easily absorbed by an existing schema. In the case where new information cannot be absorbed in an existing schema, the ...

Assimilation refers to the process of adjusting or embracing the culture of a state, group, or nation (Desmond 31). Trump and individuals who think like him believe that Muslims are not able to assimilate in America because of the strict Sharia laws that they uphold as well as the notion that Islam is hostile to Western cultures. Such perspectives are not true because Muslims have been able to integrate successfully in various parts of the world, including Canada and the United States. Such success stories suggest that Muslims can assimilate in Western nations and America. Muslims do not assimilate ...

The United States of America is a country that has been characterized by the cultural diversity of its population. Since many centuries ago, people of various races, nationalities and creeds have lived together in this great nation, yet not always in a peaceful manner. The article “Melting Pot or Salad Bowl” seeks to explore the extent to which cultural assimilation has happened in the United States. Traditionally, Christians of Caucasian descent have been the dominant culture in the United States. Even though this was even upheld by laws before, it is now still true to a certain degree, as ...

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Chapter 1: After the WWII, the United States experienced industrialization, population boom, and the “America First” pride that pushed the country forward, while Indianness symbolized past. As the result, the nation and the government wanted to assimilate Indians as soon as possible, and the BIA took the leading role in this process. Furthermore, the BIA managed all Indian issues. The absence of exclusive rights on the tribes’ territories, the consequences of the 1887 General Allotment Act, and the new harden policies that aimed to cause the rapid assimilation of Indians led to lack of food, health and education services, ...

Abstract

The process that led to the formation of the United States is more of a salad bowl than a melting pot; ethnic communities were not softly absorbed to the umbrella of American culture, but they rather coexisted in their individual identities, like ingredients of salad on a plate. The struggle of the African American is pinned on his slavery and the fact that he was sold to America for labor. It has been very hard for the African American to get assimilated, and the situation is still dire today, as racism is still rife. The underrepresentation in the Congress ...

Assimilation

Assimilation is a term which is so much associated with immigration. Its significance is not only felt in today’s immigrant communities but also throughout the history of the US. Previously, the term was used to mean a biological process carried out by the body used in the conversion of food into a substance which can be absorbed in digestion. However, the use of the term in today’s world as a physiological process has been eclipsed as a result of its greater social significance. Its broad use is evident by the many definitions it carries. Some sources define ...

History of Fashion

Dick Hebdige’s article “Subculture: The Unnatural Break” poses the matter of the role of subculture in a conventional society. The article indicates that media is presenting subcultures such as punk, as threatening to the traditional societal conventions, to the generally accepted sense of morality, lifestyle or fashion. The arguments that the author uses vary from references to the members of subculture as different individuals that create semantic disorders to conversion and the erasure of the “other” to social norms. The article depicts how media techniques are used to highlight a subculture as negative to social standards. Hebdige suggests ...

Personal Reflection:

Abstract Cultural bias is a condition that can have great effect upon the education of a student. In Canada it has been seen that while immigrants are quite welcome and even encouraged to settle within the provinces, they are still seen as second-class in several ways. Two of those ways involve their place in education and their cultural identities. While Canada is renowned for its acceptance of many various races and peoples, it is not as well known for its quiet assimilation of its immigrants into the Canadian culture. Immigrants are not paid as much, do not always receive ...

The Institutional Affiliation

1. In most countries becoming an adult implies turning a particular age, being able to vote, drive, take responsibility for one's own actions, etc. Nevertheless, turning 18 or 21 doesn't make a person an adult in a full sense. Every individual conscious, responsible and independent at a different time but there exist a number of rites which represent the passage. In the 18th century, in Hawaii, young people used to jump off cliffs. It was a formal rite of passage into adulthood until the modern era when this tradition went down into history. The first man who jumped off ...

What are some key differences in the way that the women in the novel respond to challenges of assimilation compared to the men? Be sure to define assimilation as part of your answer. Wiliam A.V. Clark, an expert on immigration, and immigrant response, defines assimilation as “a way of understanding the social dynamics of American society and that it is the process that occurs spontaneously and often unintended in the course of interaction between majority and minority groups" (Clark 13). It is, more generally, the way in which an individual begins to build a new, strictly American life, including ...

Abstract

Immigration has been a thorny subject for the past centuries. The issue has been widely debated and talked about since the influx of the movement of people from their original home countries to new countries for various reasons. Immigration can be defined as the movement of people from their native countries to countries where they do not hold citizenship with the main aim of settling there permanently or to take up employment. People who often cross international borders to other countries to look for jobs or with the intention of settling there are called immigrants. Whereas people continue to ...

1. Some of the bases of the assigning minority status of minority groups in the United States are ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation and disability. These bases are assigned on their perceived permanency and on visibly identifying the minority group from the majority. 2. In liberal structuralism, there is an emphasis on the demand for institutional transformation in order to achieve a certain goal, on the other hand, behavioral structuralism highlights the relevance of behavioral change as a means to fulfil such goal. 3. The sex vs gender argument is made based the idea that sex refers to the ...

Race and ethnicity are defining characteristics in modern society, and although progress has been made to reduce disparities and enforce equity among all groups, inequalities still exist. These inequalities are deeply rooted in American society and often mislabeled as racism, racial bigotry, or sexism. Because society seeks the ultimate equality, the second feminist movement has gone overboard in ensuring the equitable treatment of all groups. Fixing the problem of equality is not something that is possible by forcing all groups to be the same, when differences will always exist and arguably should exist. The feminist movement initiated as a ...

Executive Summery

This report reviews the importance of Knowledge Management system as global market trends change and how Information Technology is a useful tool in Implementing Knowledge Management Systems. This report takes a specific case scenario of a farmer realizing the importance of KM System. The Report analyses both the functional and non-functional requirements to implement a KM system in t his farm. The report further proposes a suitable KM system after considering important requirements of the system. The proposed system is analyzed to determined if it satisfies the requirements cross checked against important requirement to establish whether the recommended system ...

Introduction

In his book, “Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity,” Huntington attempts to define America's identity starting from the beginning of its history and working through to modern day America. Huntington dries to examine the history of Americas' settlers, immigrants, natives and others who make the population of this cast countries. Huntington dispels various misconceptions that are often held on the national identity of America. He also assesses the challenges that have characterized national identity and offers possible solutions to the problems. There are many critics of Huntington, including Fonte John, Rose Douthat, Martha Nussbaum, and Luis ...

Popular culture and the media have assisted the boundaries that exist between, ethnicities, leaving in their wake hybrid personnel who are in the struggle to obtain a sense of identity. It might be that popular culture has assisted in producing new homogenously mixed “American” identity. In fact, in the contemporary age of global communication as well as information, ethnic boundaries have turned to be more permeable. In fiction, young American authors of various ethnic backgrounds, characters have often chosen to portion allegiances to their ethnic history, which comprises of important parts of most young American’s environment, and Sherman ...

Introduction

Asian Americans used the comic novels to tell their stories regarding the turbulent racist stereotypes that they had to undergo. The novelist developed narratives of some of the real-life experience of many young Asian Americans who were willing to do anything just to be recognized and appreciated by other Americans. This essay correlates racial discrimination with the desire of being American or Westernized.

Jin Wang

All that Jin Wang wishes to do is to fit in amongst his peers. When his household moves to a new area, Jin Wang suddenly becomes the only Asian American child in his new school. On ...

Introduction

American culture is an amalgamation of different cultures over the years. Trade has always been an important part of the United States. European explorers looking for new trade routes to India discovered the new world. After discovering the new world, they quickly established trading posts. Their main aim was to search for gold and other precious resources in this new country. However, their expectations were not fulfilled but they quickly established trading relationships with native tribes near their settlements. Most of these native tribes were hostile at first but they saw the advantage of trading with the settlers. Relationships ...

In the late nineteenth century, America went through a time of progress that was later dubbed the Gilded Age. The Gilded Age is known as a time of economic prosperity, industrial advancement, and population growth. However, the era included many dark times that are masked under the guise of progress and prosperity. The economy took a downward spiral, discrimination was rampant, and corrupt politicians worked with wealthy businessmen to concentrate the country’s wealth in a small population of people. Despite the tough circumstances that were caused by a boom in population growth, immigrants remained a large portion of ...

What Do We Mean by ‘Integration’?

The modern world is the world of emigrations and immigrations. They happen due to different reasons including social, economical, political issues, and personal circumstances but are always attended by such essential social process as integration. Generally, integration means combining of separate things or people into an integral system. It is a complicated action that has a lot of problems and unsolved questions. According to Favell, immigration “conceptualizes what happens after [migration], conceiving practical steps in a longer process which invariably includes the projection of both deep social change for the country concerned, and of fundamental continuity between the past ...

Amy Tan writes speaks to the ways in which the culture, traditions and the language differ across regions. The narrator in the story shares similar experiences as Tan’s mother was also an immigrant who migrated from China. But there is conflict between the two as the daughter is less receptive to embracing the idea that her mother has for her and her assimilation into a new culture. The truth is that the narrator’s mother represents the typical mother in the society who wishes that her child will get the best of everything that life has to offer. ...

The second chapter “The Lockdown” has its focus on historical evaluation relating to war on drugs as perceived on how laws changed with time (Alexander, 37-59). In as much as Alexander named several other disturbing elements associated with the drug war, my concern remains the fact that holistic investment by the highest governmental levels in this menace requires substantial attention alongside established policies and laws that would make good such an investment. The article “Vanishing Son” focuses on stereotypes of Asian-Americans as seen in the American society. This stereotyping has been clearly manifested in the society’s theater, literature, ...

Introduction

While many academics debate ethical topics such as anthropological research, the modern day tribal members face more pressing issues, many of them economic. An important component of modern first peoples economic rights include the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, which Congress enacted in order to control the way in which the National Indian Gaming Commission conducts business. Even though the Oneida of the twentieth and twenty-first century are separated from their relatives in central New York, Iroquois and others, the Oneida are included in discussions about gaming and economics with these and others who are connected to the nations ...

Introduction

Jean Piaget is one of the greatest psychologists to have ever lived. His thinking has influenced many areas of the study of the human mind, from development, to education and even psychopathology. Through a study of his general theory, many parameters of his thinking will be examined. Then, there will be a brief discussion of his cognitive development stages, which is the contribution he is most known for. Finally, some criticisms to his theory will be addressed, and some possible answers from within Piaget’s theory.

General Theory

According to Carey, Zaitchik and Bascandziev (2015), there are two main components of ...

First, I learned that uneducated, ill-mannered, wild creatures like Mirabella can be more human and sympathetic than her ‘civilized’ sisters. Her example taught me that process of civilization and becoming human-like should not exclude abandoning one`s values and ability to support and sympathize. True human characteristics are already embedded in almost all creatures and the only thing one should do is control and tame all negative and primitive instincts; therefore letting kindness flourish and develop. In fact, I saw that notion and term ‘civilization’ is used as a tool in killing all good and human that are implemented ...

Socialization is the process of identity formation, the gradual assimilation of the individual requirements of society, the acquisition of socially important characteristics of consciousness and behavior that govern its relationship with society. (Goslin 233) Conventionally socialization stages coincide with the stages of the age of the individual. Early or primary socialization is related to the acquisition of general cultural knowledge to the development of initial ideas about the world and the nature of human relations. Secondary socialization, or professional socialization, is associated with the mastery of specific knowledge and skills, with the initiation of a particular subculture. At this ...

Problem Statement

Understanding the impact of culture on student learning is very critical to the provision of good quality education to learners. The global population is made of people with different cultures. In learning institutions, it is common to find a class made up of students and instructors from different communities with different cultural perspectives. Culture defines people’s way of life and comprises beliefs, knowledge, symbols, values, and behaviors. In a learning environment, there is a student’s culture, instructor’s culture, and the culture of people in the surrounding environment. Culture in such a case can be homogenous (where ...

The second generation that both of the reviewed articles are centered around refers to the children of immigrants that were born in the USA. These children experience a variety of different social, financial and behavioral challenges of the rapidly evolving life in the USA. “The Second Generation” by Nancy Foner and Philipp Kasinitz studies different connotations of the word “generation” and explores the degrees to what the immigrants of the second generation are distanced from the country of their origin, its customs, traditions, culture and language. The idea that the second generation of immigrants experiences many hardships on their ...

Rome brought light to the darkest and the most barbaric places of the world, and if and when it did, these were areas that posed value to the strategic interests of the empire rather than be regions that needed civilizing. Britain was the island whose unique geography allowed founding a city serving the imperial interests well. Its conquest improved the image of the empire as a formidable force to reckon with and enhanced the reputation of the emperor. Furthermore, the introduction of religious and cultural buildings into Londinium served the ideological purpose of exposing the new subjects to the ...

Introduction

The period between the 1870s and the early 1900s was characterized by attempts by the Europeans to conquer and colonize Africa. Using the indirect system, the British aimed at preserving the culture of the colonies. The British had the idea that it is the indirect rule that is less expensive compared to the direct governance system. As they remained in their positions, the locals had to use their resources in the indirect system setup meaning that the colonial power would spend little in controlling the colony. On the other hand, the French direct rule; commonly referred as assimilation aimed ...

Introduction

The ongoing "refugee crisis" remains one of the troubling issues and increasing problem in the European integration. Over the last few years, the European Union (EU) has experienced crises resulting from Russia and Ukraine conflict and economic instability in Greece. However, these issues cannot be compared to the current unprecedented influx. The communities in the EU are now struggling to cope with the unanticipated increase of the migrants and asylum-seekers, which started few years ago but considered to reach a climax in 2015. In this year, it is estimated that more than one million refugees and migrants entered into ...

Each and every region on the planet has its own traditions and customs; basically, in the other words – its own culture. There is no doubt that all of these aspects or elements of culture are based on the geographical area of the aboriginal people’s living. Nature plays the prominent role in the humanity’s life. Folklore is that specific type of literature, which people are passing from generation to generation through songs, visual art, tales, legends, ghost stories, etc. According to this, there are a number of scientists and researchers all over the world, who are highly interested ...

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Abstract Multiculturalism is a concept discussed today in the scientific circles as well as among the public. In Canada, this topic generates heated clashes between the experts and community. As the analysis shows, it is a heated dispute where people are divided into two camps, those who advocate for diversity and their opponents emphasizing the need to revive the core Canadian culture. Both sides of the conflict agree that Canada has become one of the most multicultural countries in the world due to its politics of inclusion and loyalty to all cultures. The historical facts imply that multiculturalism in ...

In recent years, the world has turned into regional scenes through a various transformation on the way in which nations, organizations and people function. The advancement in information technology and communication have developed platforms for people to interact with each other throughout the world (Allan, 2006). Specifically, these advancements have a significant role in reducing the world into a global village. Recent technological advancements in mass communication have eliminated the boundaries of time and space, thus assisting people to travel all around the world. Social change has made it possible to understand nations without considering border issues. Through world ...

In recent years, the world has turned into regional scenes through a various transformation on the way in which nations, organizations and people function. The advancement in information technology and communication have developed platforms for people to interact with each other throughout the world (Allan 2010). Specifically, these advancements have a significant role in reducing the world into a global village. Recent technological advancements in mass communication have eliminated the boundaries of time and space, thus assisting people to travel all around the world. Social change has made it possible to understand nations without considering border issues. Through world ...

Question 1(3)

History Success and Limitations of the Civil Rights Movement Introduction Civil rights movement consisted of endless grass root activism and lobbying so that the African Americans could be given the same basic rights as those of the American natives in the constitution. In addition, it was a multidimensional campaign geared towards ending the legalized segregation and the numerous aspects of inequalities and discrimination that the African Americans faced. This movement was characterized by several courtroom wars, protests and demonstration. Over the years, the movement achieved its objectives despite the various setbacks that was faced by those fighting for the ...

Question 1

Migrants have faced a significant problem settling or rather adapting to their host countries. Nonetheless, there are different ways they can use to adjust to the host society, for instance, ethnic pluralism, assimilation, and transnationalism. Assimilation is whereby two distinct groups of people from different cultures merge to share a common culture. When migrants move to new countries, they have to assimilate with the natives by learning their culture and social life. On the other hand, there is pluralism whereby a group of people come together and decides to maintain their identity and culture. For the case of the ...

Migration is an inevitable phenomenon in the modern globalized world. People, who for some reasons are forced to migrate from their countries into the new ones, are often likely to encounter certain difficulties. Such difficulties are usually caused by the apparent differences in cultures, habits, traditions, and social norms. Anyway, if an immigrant wants to successfully adapt to the host society, he or she should work out a compromise solution. In most cases, immigrants resort to such decisions as assimilation, ethnic pluralism or transnationalism. This paper describes the differences of these three kinds of social adaptation of immigrants. First ...

Question 1

Assimilation, ethnic pluralism or multiculturalism in the US and transnationalism for immigrants share certain similarities but even though they also differ markedly with reference to migration of women and their rights or status in the receiving nation. Either way, immigrants have got to eventually adapt to one of these immigration aspects in the long run. One notable similarity among these concepts is that all of them share the notion of social relations among members of the society. They all relate to the social interactions that exist within the members of the community, particularly between immigrants and their new-found friends ...

Two unique translations of "transnationalism" can be recognized in exchanges on this subject by migration researchers. In the primary understanding – in way breaking works by researchers, for example, Yasemin Soysal, David Jacobson, Rainer Baubock, and Stephen Castles and Alistair Davidson – transnationalism is comprehended as a shift pastor, in a manner of speaking, vertically past (as opposed to evenly over) participation in a regional state or country and its going with common and political cases, towards all the more including definitions, for example, general humanism, enrollment in a substrate (European Union), and dish religious solidarity (Muslims in Western Europe). In ...

Intersectionality Theory

Introduction Throughout the human history, people are renowned to classify themselves based on their difference in cultural values, religion, race and ethnic diversity. The American society is no difference from the above case, an aspect that has led to the division of people into two important social classes, which include the minorities and majorities. This attribute is often triggered by racial difference. Race, as will be used in the above study, indicates different groups of people who share a common range of traits that are biologically transmitted. Some of the important races in the American society include the Caucasians, ...

Post-War Indian Policy and Aboriginal Activism

Post-War times in the United States were marked by the rise of Indian termination policy and African-American civil rights movement. Against the background of its neighbour, Canada also decided to overview policies and attitude toward First Nations. In 1969, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Minister of Indian Affairs Jean Chretien wrote the 1969 White Paper, a policy paper proposal, according to which Indians became equal to Canadians and Indian status was eliminated. The White Paper abolished the Indian Act that had existed in Canada since 1876 and was considered to be discriminating. However, the new proposal did not ...

Abstract

China could have remained peaceful were it not for a group of revolutionaries who are located in the southern China. This group led a successful revolt against the Qing Dynasty in 1911. Their purpose was to end the imperial system that existed in China by establishing the Republic of China. The two Opium wars which were focused on the Western powers incurred a great loss to China. It was due to these wars that China lost Hong Kong. This played a key role to the 1949 revolution. This paper discusses elements of the Communists’ view of the revolution, identity ...

“Should Immigration Require Assimilation?” by Tom Gjelten explores the complex dimensions of what it means to be “American” through the experience of one Salvadoran immigrant and several theorists’ views of assimilation. Gjelten focuses specifically on the experience of Hispanic immigrants to the United States, as well as the political and cultural aspects of “American identity” (Gjelten 4). I agree with Gjentle’s assertion that what it means to be an American is not as simple as citizenship, but I do not agree with his assessment that “ ‘Americanization’ brought certain obligations” (Gjelten 5). I agree that American identity is composed ...

Abstract

All over the world economic challenges have deeply affected the lives of millions of immigrant families and the hardest hit are the children. Skyrocketing economic disadvantages have led to job layoffs and lack of the basic necessities in life and the immigrant children have consequently suffered from immense mental health problems and constant abuse. Low levels of income are inextricably linked with rising levels of homelessness and lack of other basic needs and the immigrant children are particularly affected by these adverse conditions. Thousands of immigrant children have been reported to have a wide variety of mental problems which are ...