Anwar (1981) suggests that family could be a
Anwar (1981) suggests that family could be a
|Ethnic group |Group of people whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage often consisting of a|…
From chapter four, I learned that being a therapist, I have to think a lot before I speak and give advice to clients. Doing this will prevent me from making a client uncomfortable. Another thing the book stated which made me think a lot is the comment about race. It said that race is a social construct, not a scientific or biological fact. It was interesting learning about how race developed into a hierarchically issue. Race and ethnicity are different things and people do not realize the differences between the two.…
An ethnic source of identity would be the family. Butler (95) said that Asian people who came to the UK wanted to preserve their traditions but in the UK instead; so they wanted to bring their culture into the UK culture and integrate into society whilst keeping their home-grown identity. Ghuman (99) said that during primary socialisation in an Asian family, the parents would make the…
Assess the importance of school factors such as racism and pupils’ response to racism in creating ethnic differences in educational achievement.…
The most important and first thing to have is to ensure there is a safe and warm emotional relationship with the children. This not only builds trust but also helps them understand and connect with cultural identities. As an educator myself I have to fully understand the children’s culture to enable me to meet the learning, social and wellbeing needs of children and their families. Give opportunity for children to be exposed to the different cultures such as through, videos, storytelling, ‘show and tell’ and even learning basic words in other language. We ourselves need to be a non-judgemental and non-bias educator as children tends to copy our actions. When a child display signs of being disrespectful, it is important to explain to the child that what he is doing is unacceptable, tell him that understanding and learning about different culture shows a respectful and good behaviour. Educators might encourage children from different background to play together.…
I had never completed a IAT test or heard of the IAT test prior to this class. I found several of the IAT categories interesting such as race, age, and religion. I choose the age test and found the test somewhat boring. The first task was to sort words and pictures of faces of both young and old people into two categories young and old. I found it interesting that the pictures of the faces were not a picture of the entire face, only the eye area and nose. I associated wrinkles and frown lines with the face of an old person and the lack of wrinkles and frown lines with the face of a young person. I would like to know if there is a reason why pictures of entire faces…
After the war, the idea of being multicultural raised doubts not only about nationalism but also about imperialism and colonialism. After the brutal midcentury experience of those -isms, it was no longer easy to assume that any single culture was so superior that it justified the domination of others. The word multicultural advocated coexistence. To our north, for example, Canadians used multicultural to describe their attempt to accommodate both English and French culture and language in their commonwealth.…
Optimal distinctive theory and self-categorization theory hold that association moderately distinctive social categories should be more central to self-conception. The University of Kent has down a few studies to prove that optimal distinctiveness and young people’s expression through musical preference. Children are often characterized by their tendency to associate with peers rather than their parents, to rely on networks of friends with musical, sporting and other subcultures. These theories and studies help us revolutionize the understanding of a child’s musical preference.…
White helping professionals must free themselves from the cultural conditioning of their past and move toward the development of a nonracist White identity…
One problem that seems to be increasing over time is the unmarried birth rates in America. Increasing from 18.4% of all births in 1980 to over 40% in 2010(FP-12-06), the current rate is showing that over the last 3 decades teens are becoming more apt to engage in pre-marital sex. The changing in norms and values over the past three decades has lead to a huge increase in unmarried birth rates increasing. It’s not really against cultural norms to engage in the hook-up or have sex with more than one partner in your life like it used to be. Over half of all minority births were to unmarried women, with an alarming 74% of births among black women, 54% to Hispanics(FP-12-06). 74% of blacks while nearly 50% of them were single, also common amongst Hispanics almost 20%(FP-12-06). On the other hand Whites are at a low 30% total of all births being premarital (FP-12-06). Among teens experiencing a nonmarital birth, 45% of the babies were born to single mothers versus 44% to cohabiting mothers(FP-12-06). According to statistics, the increase of age is related to increased rate of cohabiting unmarried births, with a decrease in single mothers. Based on statistics mothers who are less educated are more likely to have premarital birth than those who are highly educated. Minorities leading the way with the most premarital babies, over half being single mothers, this plays a big role in a majority being drop and having to work to support the baby. Causing a developing an endless cycle amongst blacks and other minorities. With the mother having little education, education thus becomes second to the child, and only having one parent present can develop some withdrawal from love. Thus at a young age the child then goes searching for this love and can come at the cost of a premarital baby.…
African American teens tend to racially group amongst themselves because race has been a central theme throughout American history; from the Constitution to the Civil War to the denial of African American citizenship and social participation. Tatum (2003) noted in her essay, “Why are all the Black Children Sitting together in the Cafeteria?” an excerpt from our textbook, From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Text and Reader (2008), that ‘racial grouping begins by the sixth and seventh grades’ (p. 359). Right about the time puberty begins questions of identity for all teens generally surface. For African American teens, these questions also include ‘Who am I ethnically and racially?’ In addition, Tatum (2003) suggests, “African American teens are forced to look at themselves through a racial lens because the rest of the world does” (p. 360 ). For example, racial profiling sends a very clear message. During adolescence, race becomes more personal and noticeable for the African American student. Finding the answers to questions like, ‘What does it mean to be a young African American?’ ‘How should I act?’ ‘What should I do?’ are all important questions, for Black teens, but the last thing they want to do is ask their parents (pp. 359-364). So, they turn to their peers for the answers. Therefore, African American children resort to self-segregation as a coping mechanism against racism. “They turn to each other for support they are not likely to receive anywhere else. Sometimes their White peers are the perpetrators of racism and if they are not; they are unprepared to respond supportively.” (p. 364). Education in African American studies would be beneficial in helping White teens understand their African American peers. Connecting yourself with people who look like you is only natural; it is a part of growing up and important to your identity development process.…
Using material from item A and elsewhere assess the claim that ethnic differences in educational achievement are primarily the result of school factors.…
racism, antisemitism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, and classism. (2nd ed.) in M. Adams (ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.…
Ethnic identity is the sum total of group member feelings about those values, symbols, and common histories that identify them as a distinct group (Smith 1991). Development of ethnic identity is important because it helps one to come to terms with their ethnic membership as a prominent reference group and significant part of an individuals overall identity. Ethnic reference group refers to an individuals psychological relatedness to groups (Smith 1991). These reference groups help adolescents sense, reflect and see things from the point of their ethnic groups in which they actively participate or seek to participate.…
Musau (2007) progresses the idea that ethnicity is not a bad thing in itself since it is the acknowledgement of a people’s right to be diverse. Furthermore, when such an acknowledgement is escorted with an exclusion of others who do not fall into that group there is a big problem. Such as, once an ethnic group takes over the state power, it arranges itself in a way that propagates its control of power in order to pursue the interests of the ethnic group. It is apparent that ethnic views and identity are manipulated to a great extent for political ends in ethnic conflicts and ethnic electoral violence in Africa (Nnoli, 1989; Laakso, & Cowen, 2002).…