Essays on Ethnic Minorities

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2016), about 1.2 million Americans are victims of AIDs epidemic with bisexual men and gay recording the highest preference. Moreover, racial and ethnic minorities suffer the greatest from the epidemic with African Americans and Latinos recording the highest number of infection in 2015. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted that one in every eight people living with AIDs are not aware of their status. The preference of HIV/AIDs in the United States changes each year since its discovery in 1981. A report on the new number of ...

Abstract

Although obliged to cover issues in their entirety, with no distortions made in the process, American media tend to misrepresent the reality, as was the case with the depiction of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime implications for the social welfare possibly for political reasons. The noble cause of saving the international image of the USA formerly allied with the late leader in the wake of the Gaddafi demonization could have been the driving force of misrepresentation of the myth related in part to ethical minorities. The knowledge of non-consequentialism and its principles, whether unconsciously or otherwise, allows readers to perceive ...

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Abstract Obesity is a condition of having more than average fatness, and it is defined by the Body Mass Index (BMI) of 95th percentile or more. Obesity epidemic is not only affecting the people from underdeveloped and developing countries but also affecting the people of developed countries. Particularly, minorities in developed countries are facing the problem more commonly as compared to the other population. During the last few decades, it has not only affected the adults but also children even at very young ages. Therefore, for the betterment of future generations, it is important to work ...

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Non-consequentialism, relativism, and absolutism as philosophies and ethical theories will be central to the research into the nature of media portrayal of different minorities in various states and the way the theories and philosophies shape people’s perception of such representation. Portrayal is often the problem due to it being incomplete, biased, or distorted for a variety of reasons, whether political or otherwise. Besides evidence and opposed attitudes, the project will offer practical recommendations as to how to improve the coverage of different minorities. Thesis statement: non-consequentialism, relativism, and absolutism influence how people perceive the problem of the inadequate ...

Introduction

In the modern global world, an evident blur of cultural limits results in a diverse patchwork of human interests, concerns, likes and dislikes. Media represents cultural concerns, social issues or even historical facts in a different way. Thus, there can be many differences between factual representations of one nations in the context of others. As a rule, modern movie industry represents perverted images of ethnic minorities. Moviemakers intend to make money and gain huge profits. They do not think about cultural distortions or racial conflicts, which may occur in the result of their movies, which represent only one side ...

Music as a cultural and social genre may be used to communicate various aspects of people’s cultural and even political systems. Several Jamaican music songs convey different messages that depict the political and cultural aspects of the Jamaican people and the values in the society. The use of characters in these genres is also significant in conveying a variety of messages to the intended audience. Using the literary style of repetition, some of these songs we listen to tend to emphasize their message to the public by always mentioning the keywords and messages of the artists. In this ...

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Access to quality, safe, and affordable healthcare is a priority of every person worldwide. Most countries in the world, especially, the United States of America (USA), have continued to put more efforts towards improving the delivery of care to ensure every citizen enjoys quality and safe health outcome. Health disparities act as one of the major issues affecting the delivery of health in the U.S. Health disparities affect different groups of people in the country, but it's more common among racial and ethnic minorities and underserved communities. The increasing documentation of disparities in healthcare calls for an urgent need ...

1. People claim that the war on drug has delivered significantly unequal results across racial groups, demonstrated through racial segregation by law implementation and unbalanced drug war hopelessness endured by groups of color. In spite of the fact that the percentage of drug use as well as selling are the same across racial groups, ethnic minorities are much more prone to be ceased, looked, indicted, sentenced, captured, and imprisoned for medication law infringement compared to whites. Greater arrest and imprisonment rates for Latinos and African Americans do not suggest expanded pervasiveness of drug use in these groups. The mass ...

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Since the republics in the Soviet Union proclaimed independence in 1991, there have been significant changes concerning the ethno cultural, and demographic situation. The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the major reason behind the creation of the Russian Diaspora. More than twenty-five million Russian citizens found themselves in the midst of newly and freshly created states, which were often redesigned as their new political dwellings (Beissinger, 2008). After some time, the displaced Russians were compelled to either assume a fresh political identity, or to return to the Russian Federation, which was newly created. Assuming fresh political identity would ...

Integral to humans is a constant pursuit of distinction. This pursuit can assume positive, constructive or negative, damaging forms. On a positive side, hard work can be a springboard for distinction regardless of professional, social, economic and cultural barriers. On a negative side, distinction can be achieved at someone else's expense. In one most damaging form, distinction can be sought based on race. By emphasizing – mistakenly – one's superior race because of physical attributes, particularly skin color, distinction, if any, becomes damaging at multiple levels. This concept of (false) distinction informs Cohen's argument on race and culture. In his argument, ...

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Australia is one of the many countries in which moral panics have resulted to elevated racism. The concerns about crime and the fear of crime in many Australian cities including Sydney have greatly shaped lifestyles and have influenced the qualities of life. It is evidently that crime in many Australian cities is continually being linked to immigrants and other ethnic minorities. In Australia, in the recent years, the issue of crime committed by ethnic minorities and immigrants has been the subject of many media headlines and has greatly shaped policies, both domestic and international. The 9/11 attacks in the ...

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With starkly different cultures and histories, the two countries have been recently pitted against each other regarding issues of austerity following the credit crises. This essay will attempt to evaluate and analyze the two countries’ electoral systems. In this endeavour, the text will attempt to confirm how each system addresses the issues of proportionality, representation of religious and ethnic minorities, durability and accountability. The essay is divided as follows. First is a theoretical discussion of electoral systems followed by a brief analysis of the two electoral systems in questions. Then a comparative analysis will attempt to classify the two ...

The Components of Cultural Match in Psychotherapy

Available evidence suggests that when clients from ethnic minority seeking mental health treatment are paired with therapists from the similar ethnic background, the rates of drop out is lower, and there is an increased utilization of treatment. Based on previous studies about culture, I believe this is true to a large extend. For example, Hofstede (2001) pointed out that there are six cultural dimensions in the world including uncertainty avoidance, indulgence, individualism vs. collectivism, long-term orientation, masculinity vs. feminism, and power distance. These cultural dimensions might affect the relationship between the client and the therapist, and also treatment outcome. ...

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In the study of Freng (2001), the factors of racial background as well as ethnic origins have long found an association with criminal conduct. Even from the years that slavery was practiced in the United States, debates and arguments on the inordinate representation of minorities either in conflict or in the custody of one element of the criminal justice system have been proffered as to whether this overrepresentation is the result of bigoted policies being implemented by the authorities or are these instances only proffer that these minorities are genetically inclined towards criminal conduct. In addition, since ethnic ...

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The essay looks at the social problem of racism in society. Racial and ethnic minorities are seen a poorer quality of health care as compared to the White non-minorities. Although the sources of these disparities are complex, they are rooted in historic inequities. Racism in health care industry involves many participants and at different levels, such as the healthcare systems, healthcare professionals, and the patients. Stereotyping, biases and uncertainty contribute to disparities in the treatments provided. Minorities experience a range of barriers when accessing health care. The purpose of the essay is to study the social problem and what ...

English - The research paper

Even after decades, racial tensions and discriminations have not been erased completely. Racial injustices to African-Americans continue to pervade even today and compel President Obama to speak on the issue. With more than a third of the US population belonging to ethnic minority groups, it would be a mistake to ignore issues related to racism. Can racism spread its roots in the health care industry and if it has, is racism is a significant barrier to accessing healthcare? Those are tough questions and need some studies. The essay explores the disparities in health care systems experienced by the racial ...

Inequality is one of the greatest social problems as the result of the racism. The differences can be perceived not only economically, but also politically and is one of the major global challenges. Studies show that inequality can result in poverty and creation of social classes in the societies. This situation can be elaborated by Marxist theory of Communist Manifesto. The theory states that states that those who own the means of production ‘capitalists’ take advantage of the poor ‘proletariats’ and amass wealth which causes the social class issues. I am going to discuss the inequalities that result as ...

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The United States of America is a multi-cultural society housing almost every culture present in the world. Healthcare professionals serve the high number of diverse patient populations. The presence of numerous cultures requires the government to promote cultural competence in all public and private sectors to accommodate people from different cultural backgrounds. Cultural competence refers to the ability of a professional, an organization, or an agency to establish behaviors, policies, and attitudes that work effectively across all cultures. The healthcare sector has a lot of responsibility in promoting cultural competence among multicultural groups found in the US. However, studies ...

The legal documents used in United States court premises seem to be contradictory in some sense because they recognize the United States constitution as the law that is supreme, but also appreciate and recognize the sovereign nature of Native American nations. As such, due to the contradiction, the Native Americans have always suffered and the contradiction in the laws has persisted for over two centuries (Wilkins 41). This contradiction of laws has been at the detriment of Native Indians by failing to identify their unique status as original inhabitants of the continent. The American Indians are unique to the ...

The policy of multiculturalism, national identity and the fight against racism is extremely relevant today. Which theory to stick – fusion of many cultures into one, or preserving the cultural identity of each nation and race – that is the question that is now concerned by not only politicians but also by ordinary people. It can be said that it is mainly addressed to the people who face the representatives of different cultures in everyday life. Therefore, it is important to understand how the policy of multiculturalism has developed in countries such as Canada and the US as it is in ...