Ethnicity Reflection Paper

The Pain and the Promise by Glenda Alice Rabby gives an account of the long, hard struggles blacks had to endure to achieve equality among whites in Tallahassee and throughout Florida. A lot of people had the misconception that Florida wasn’t like its neighboring Southern states. Rabby proves throughout the book that those were just mere misconceptions and in fact, Florida was equally resistant to change as other states below the Mason Dixon line. Tallahassee, being the state’s capitol, was going to be the city that set the framework for the entire state during the modern civil rights movement if

To protect our citizen under the 14th Amendment with “without due process” and “deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”, as well as the 6th Amendment, which the defendant in the case will have a “speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury.” The courts need to properly select its jury that is racially diverse. So how the court protect the people and select a fair and impartial jury?

9-11 was one of our horrible events that happened in our history. Nearly 3,000 innocent people were killed. There are many theories\opinions about 9-11, more particularly, the terrorists. The terrorists claimed to be ‘muslims’. Some people, like me, didn’t believe them, yet some people unfortunately did.

Born in a traditional Chinese family, Ming began to know about people of backgrounds different than him after he came to the U.S. in 2014. What he learned and experienced in CSUEB had transformed him from a boy having a racial stereotype and religious prejudice to a man who shows high respect for cultural diversity. By making a formal interview with Tiana and Ming, I learned that school education has significant influences on personal growth and development because it improves students’ abilities to demonstrate knowledge of the history, race, and gender in American context and prepares them to be a person who has abilities to respond to diverse perspectives linked to cultural identities, such as race, gender, and

“Hey you’re good at math”, “Hey you’re dumb for an Asian”, “Well of course he’s good at that, he’s Asian”. These are the phrases that defined my childhood and still are relevant to my daily life. These are phrases are a part of what society calls today “The Model Minority Myth”. This all started during World War II, where Chinese and Japanese Americans adopted a plan to promote assimilation with the American people. With this plan, they succeeded in proving to America, that they worked harder, were more focused on education to gain their success. While the other minorities protest to get civil rights, the Asians gained their rights by just

Tell me what's not made in China.” and “Is China America’s friend or enemy...Can you guys take care of North Korea for us?” The most people who were asked were elder people who were not good at speaking English because they spent the most time living in their own Chinese community. Let look back at the second image that white people wished Asian and other immigrants leave their white community, but now, in the modern society, they went to the immigrants’ community to disturb and embrace them. Of course, this is not an everyday situation, however, it can still reveal the social issue that had already existed since the first immigration

“The History, Development and Future of Ethnic Studies” by Evelyn Hu-DeHart mentions several issues young scholars faced during the time of need for multicultural curriculum in higher education. Young scholars were demanding to uncover the missing facts and accredited sources that American history, culture, and society have left out for centuries. The solution the students concluded in solving this dilemma was to bring attention to the need of ethnic studies programs. With enough support from the student body and willingness of universities, institutions were able to recruit professors and thus create ethnic studies programs. According to Hu-DeHart, by providing ethnic studies programs and departments, the academic field would provide, “…a

Upon entering the class I was anxious, curious, and also oblivious to the ideas I would be encountering. Like other students who had not previously spent time discussing topics of race and ethnicity, I myself had nervous tendencies in assuming that such a class may not strengthen my understanding of ethnic and race relations. I realized I knew little about race or ethnicity, and even the possible similarities or differences. However, I welcomed the opportunity to further discover the possibilities of the class. My understanding of race was concentrated in a definition that could be understood as different skin colors. My limited conception of ethnicity applied to people’s origin or where they lived. It seemed as though my lack of

It is easy to not feel one’s nationality when no one takes the time to teach it. June’s mother never really has the desire to teach June about Chinese culture, she just expects June to know it already. June goes as far as saying, “ I didn't have to do what my mother said anymore. I wasn't her slave. This wasn't China.

One experience so far in China that left a strong impression on my mind was a visit to the Shaanxi museum of history. Our tour guide was a locally educated young woman in her twenties. As she took us through the different periods of Chinese history, at every exhibit showing some sort of tool or mechanistic contraption she would turn and say “as you can see, the Chinese people are very smart!” She also recounted a story in which she was very offended that an American made a comment that Chinese people are short, to which she replied “yes, we are, but we have five thousand years of history and culture!” Both the richness and vastness of Chinese history was a huge source of pride for her, as her slightly illogical response to the American’s comment shows. In retrospect, her age denotes that she grew up on the government’s campaign in the 1990s to educated students about China’s greatness, to foster pride.

Students asked me, “You’re Asian right? You’re yellow,” and “If you don’t believe that you’re an Asian, you’re simply a fool.” I was strikingly puzzled because they knew that I was an Asian just from the look of my face! During

Richard Rodriguez article, “The Chinese in All of Us (1944)”, argues that many different cultures have contributed to making up the American culture. Rodriguez backs up this claim by sharing

Anthropologists have always had their discrepancies with the word culture and its background significance. There have been numerous definitions that have filtered through the field, yet not one that everyone can accept or agree with. Franz Boas, an anthropologist in the early 20th Century, and his students, had a difficult time figuring out the objective of what culture is. Culture is about learning and shared ideas about behaviour. Although Boas and his students had a slightly different idea in mind. They ultimately reached a conclusion, a definition of culture in their view that is a contradiction in terms. Boas sates that, “ culture was expressed through the medium of language but was not reducible to it;

People are usually categorized in terms of race and/or ethnicity. Race is a term typically used to classify people according to similar and specific physical characteristics. Ethnicity is a term more broadly used that connects people according to an inherited status such as: a shared ancestry, language, history, religion, cuisine, art, clothing style, and/or physical appearance, etc.

Race and ethnicity are the occasionally have been used interchangeably. Race is described as a person’s physical appearance such as skin color, eye color, hair and many other biological traits and characteristics. Race mainly refers to the differences in skin color in the contemporary world. When we say that person is fair skinned or is black we are referring to the race of that person. Ethnicity is the cultural aspect of a an individual or a group such as the nationality of the person, the language they use to communicate, their descendants , the particular region they inhabit for example American, African, African Americans, etc. In a nutshell race is an overview of how you look and ethnicity is the social and cultural aspect of grouping you are born into.