Diversity, Inequality, And Immigration

In Common hour, we learned about Diversity, Community, & Social Justice. We learned that Diversity and Social Identity are interconnected, one cannot exist without the other. Social Identity is one aspect of Diversity, while Diversity is based upon Social Identity. However, both of these concepts depend on whether you experience Privilege and Oppression. Like Diversity and Social Identity, Privilege and Oppression cannot exist without the other. On the other hand, it’s not necessarily good that Privilege can only exist because of Oppression because people, regardless of their own personal accomplishments, are judged and discriminated by others.

Diversity exists all across the United States. It is defined as the state of having people who are different races or who have different cultures in a group or organization, according to Merriam-Webster dictionary. Along with the ever-growing diversity in America, brings along intercultural communication. Intercultural communication can be defined as a situated communication between individuals or groups of different linguistic and cultural origins. Due to the limitless amounts of diversity and intercultural communication across the United States, misunderstandings and clashes between cultures are bound to occur. These clashes have been as extreme to be used to explain violence and crime not only in the United States, but also throughout our entire nation. On the other end, these cultural clashes can be so personal in our everyday lives because of our expectations of a certain behavior coming from our own cultural backgrounds, as many others have very different cultural backgrounds and expectations of us.

To begin my personal informative essay on diversity in the United States, I would like to point out what information has had the most influence on how I better understand and relate to others different from how I did in the past. I do not feel as though this class taught me any more than I already know about other races and ethnicities, in terms of, how their ancestors came to America, or what hardships particular racial or ethnical groups have grown through in the group’s history in the United States. What I do feel like this class has done for me is, put into prospective of how often and frequent prejudice and

The Fifth Amendment of the Bill of Rights (1791) included in the Constitution of the Unites States (US) declares that “No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” Later, President Roosevelt during his campaign address of October 13, 1932, certainly stated that the “government is responsible for its citizens ' welfare.” Recently, Rabbi Greg Harris in a recent lecture at the National Defense University declared that “the majorities should protect the rights of minorities.” Based on these assertions, it is possible to infer that historically, since the birth of

"As a Texan, I have known many immigrant's families, mainly from Mexico, and I've seen what they add to our country. They bring to America the values of faith in God, love of family, hard work, and self-reliance; the values that made us a great nation to begin with (Ortiz)". One of our great president, George W. Bush, said these enhancing words and it now concerns me in this day of time. That now the world wants to imprison the Hispanic culture all for varies stereotypes. With President Trump theory of the wall this will cause many more issues not only with Hispanic immigrates but within America itself. Without the construction of the wall, America wouldn’t be wasting money, it will keep generating diversity and wall wouldn’t go against our founding father's rules and regulations.

Illegal immigrants do bring a sense of Diversity to our country. There are so many different cultures all around the world that we dom not know of and would probably never see if not for these immigrants bringing their culture with them. Im a firm believer that everyone has the right to believe or think what they like. They have to right to believe what they were brought up to believe or if they want to change them they have that right to do so as well. Everytime is hear or witness the issues with illegal immigrants, i can not help but wonder why they want to come the the United States. What cause or situation has they leaving their native land and come here, what is the reason they want to live here. I know many countries out thier are not as well off as ours and i feel that is the reason many do come here in serch of a better life. I believe we all deserve this chance. Even us as native born citizen, deserve this chance. I feel that is where illegal immagrants hinder society and usally get a bad wrap for recieving special help before our own citizens do. We are not all well off to do here in our own country and i feel that our own citizens need help as well.

I am currently at a placement site, where there is not much diversity when it comes to race. Many of my students consider themselves white or non hispanic with the exception of seven students. Out of those seven, two identify as African American, three identify as hispanic and the other two identify with two or more races. Besides race, I have diversity amongst gender, socioeconomic status, learning styles, accommodations, and modifications. My classes are comprised of more females than males who come from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Some of the students come from well off families with occupations such as pastors, educators, military personnel, business owners, and doctors while others come from farmers, grocery store workers, restaurant employees and construction workers. Though there is nothing wrong with the occupations of the parents, it is obvious that there is a difference between the

This article was about the gaps in diversity, and how they are starting to narrow. The United States are becoming a multicultural state where non-Hispanic white Americans are going to become the minority-majority in both younger and older age. The state is closing the gaps on ethnicity for instance: blacks make up 8.5% of the population of Americans, while 6.8% are Hispanic, 3.3% are Asian, along with AIAN, NHPI, and mixed-race Americans make up less than 1% of Americans that are sixty-five and older. As for the younger population that is under sixty-five, less than two-thirds are non-Hispanic white, and 0ne-third is the minority. The cause of the ethnicity gaps getting closer in the U.S. is because of immigration. Immigration is driven

One of the most challenging professions for African American males is social work. As a social worker, I have realized that I have to work under two domains. The first one is to work under the race identity and the second one is to work as a class identity. Although I am proud of being an African American, I usually feel sorry for myself being from unprivileged social class in the American society. The identity of being an African American male has affected my social work in many aspects. This is because it has made it impossible to carry out my professional duties because of negative perspectives and discrimination in the society. African American social workers are considered to be incompetent by the rest of the society hence making it impossible to delegate duties without any form of discrimination. This paper provides my own reflections as an African American male in the field of social work and how this identity has affected my practice in community work and advocacy duties.

Through the examination of increased immigration and diversity in the modern world, Robert Putnam and Krishna Savani reach extremely differing conclusions on how increasing diversity in communities across the United States of America is negatively or positively correlated to trust. While each text shows divergent results of their respective studies, it is important to keep in mind how both Putnam and Savani produced valid findings that can be incorporated with each other. Primarily the reason for this gap is the backgrounds of the researchers. Putnam’s views are strictly of a social-economic standpoint, while Savani and her team of researchers offer a psychological viewpoint in conducting their studies. Comparing their works thus results in the ability to more

I was recently talking to a friend of mine about the political issues that are currently unfolding and discussing the best strategies to move forward. As we began to talk about each other ideas and begun to get a bit more personal about our stories/issues she asked me about the first time I thought about race and immigration issues. At first I was a little taken back and was not sure how to answer the question. She mention that she only just started to think about this issues when she began her undergrad studies, my friend being a white person. At first I could not quite remember the first time I actually thought about race and immigration issues and then it hit me, I’ve had to deal with this issues since I was in my mother’s belly. The norms

People from all over the world come to the United States to escape from millions of problems that are in their life. Many immigrants come to America, sometimes documented, and some undocumented. Some people believe that immigrants bring more diversity and help the economy, others believe that immigrants take jobs that would go to people who are legally here. Both sides are supported with strong evidence.

The United States is often called a melting pot because of the vast array of cultures that all live in the country. People have come from every corner of the world to settle in the United States. In recent years, the influx of immigration has become a contentious issue. Some people believe that the US is overpopulated and that further immigration poses a danger to the country while others contend that the US was built on immigration and that it is un-American to prohibit people from living here if they so wish. The articles "5 Myths About Immigration" and "The Challenge of Diversity" detail the different issues which are related to the immigration issue, both discuss the amount of immigration that occurs, the fear of immigrants taking jobs from American citizens, and the idea that immigrants are reluctant to assimilate into the American culture.

Diversity, inequality, and immigration or three words that brings mind some of the current political subjects that are currently affecting the United States today. Throughout the country’s history, there is the notable inequality and racial injustice in our society. This can be seen, and our history textbooks, about the Civil War, civil rights movement, and the more recently with the gay-rights movement. That history of this country is established on these types of movements and wars. Many different cultures have come together and creating the diversity in this country that people offer for two as a melting pot. Within this

The United States of America is a multicultural nation. All races and cultures are almost represented in America. Considered as a nation of immigrants, this country has faced and still facing many racial issues from the Civil Right Movement till today. Racism and discrimination have always been the most discussed topics when it comes to any society problems. To understand this issue we should try to find the causes and then think of an appropriate ways to reduce them. What should government do to ensure equality of opportunity and also ensure equality of outcome, so that everyone would have the freedom to do what they want, when they want without being judge by the colors of their skin but by the outcome of their work?