1. The United States is an ethnically and racially diverse nation. Explain how this happened over the last 500 years.
The United States has not been as diverse as it is today. It started with hundreds of Native American tribes most of whom were later killed when Europeans arrived from England, settled in, and colonized American territory. Those Native Americans who survived were forced to relocate and often assimilate to European culture and its effects continue to live on today. Later, other Europeans including the French, Dutch, Spanish, Irish, Swedish, and German brought their language, religion, and political structures with them to America which created the foundation for modern American culture. Africans also voluntarily settled in
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However, appearances alone are not enough to determine where someone may be from or what group they associate with. A student may also appear to look the same as someone in an ethnic group but they may not identify as being part of that ethnic group due to immigration. For example, two students may appear to be Asian, but they may come from two different ethnic groups. One may be solely Asian while the other may be Asian American. Therefore, it is difficult for teachers to determine student’s ethnicity solely based on their appearance.
3. Compare de jure segregation to de facto segregation.
De jure segregation is legally practiced and upheld by the law. The government requires and enforces the separation of individuals based on their race in de jure segregation. De facto segregation is not legally mandated by the government. It is the optional separation of the races involved in the segregation. Both forms of segregation have kept people apart due to their race and hindered the integration of public school systems.
4. How does membership in oppressed groups impact students?
Students of oppressed groups can and often do face oppression inside of the school. They are more likely to receive severer school punishments for minor offenses than other students. As a result, students of oppressed groups miss more school days thus have higher dropout rates overall. While they are in school, students who are
European exploration, in its entirety, is a complex subject with many causes and effects. In the attempt to break away from their previous home, colonists experienced a novel mixing of a variety of life, people plants and animals included. Africans, Europeans, and Indians all became acquainted in a new medley of a society. Each group, all with a unique cultural background, found a common identity as Americans due to the many new encounters and new neighbors. This was the beginning of the melting pot America is today. With “profit-seeking and soul-seeking” as the motive, Europeans concentrated the many cultures in young America.
Today, the United States of America is a very racially and religiously diverse society. We saw the seeds of diversity being sown in the early days of colonization when the Chesapeake and New England colonies grew into distinctive societies. Even though both regions were primarily English, they had similarities as well as striking differences. The differentiating characteristics among the Chesapeake and New England colonies developed due to geography, religion, and motives for colonial expansion.
According to the History Channel by the time the europeans have landed in America, that already 50 million people were already living there. As the years went on the Americas would soon split into 10 separate cultural spaces.
Schools systematically subjugate minority and black students when a school’s enrollment contains a huge racial majority. If students have no exposure to persons of different ethnicities, cultures, races, and religions, then these students will experience culture shock when they confront “other” people. Even in our class, we talk about black and minority students as another group, one that differs from “us.” We think about the inequalities in school systems as problems we need to fix, not as problems that have influenced our thinking and affect us as prospective teachers. For example, a white graduate student with
Before contact with the America’s many European countries were battling to have the most pristine country of all. Europe at this time was struggling with population loss from the Black Death and famine. Meanwhile the Native Americans, who were thought to be primitive and underdeveloped, inhabited the Americas. This need for the best empire started the Age of Exploration and soon the French, the Spanish, and the British all had control of parts of the New World giving us the nickname The Melting Pot.
1. Which of the following would have supported the actions shown in this cartoon during Reconstruction? (number 1)
In this course we learned about many different types of oppression, from the time America was first “discovered” and the discoverers began oppressing the Indians, to slavery, to the oppression of the mentally handicapped, all the way to more “modern” times in schools were students are being oppressed.
A school setting provides opportunities where issues of social justice, oppression, and discrimination can be addressed. According to Bemak and Chung (2009), students of color and economically disadvantaged students are likely to have low academic achievement, in comparison to their White middle class counterparts. These disparities in academic
- 3500 yrs ago Poverty Point was trading center for Miss and Ohio R valleys
In the 16th century Europeans began to make appearances in North America. By the late 1700’s most tribal lands on the east coast were occupied by Europeans. In 1776 what we know now as the United States of America was founded. For many years to come Native American tribes fought against England, France, and
It is historically acknowledged that the authentic Native-Americans are the Indians and there is documented theory that their origination possibly evolved from Asia. From the first settlers, throughout the establishment of the 13 colonies and the growth of the United States, state-by-state, America has truly become the “Melting Pot”, a nation of immigrants. The United States Census in 2007 allocates that more than 38 million of the nation’s residents were foreign-born; 12% of the population of 302 million.
True Definition (An Analysis of what it Means to be American) Is there truly a meaning to the word “American”? What hidden power resides deep within the word? To find the answers, we must look at the foundations that America was built upon. Simply being American continues the legacy upon which the morals that America was created by. The true definition of what it takes to be American is to continue living the legacies passed down by our founding fathers; and lead the lives of truly great men by ensuring the survival of reinvention, innovation, and leadership.
If the law did allow all races and creeds to have equal rights back in the 1860s, de facto and de jure would not be in correlation. De jure would be in effect because it is the law that the citizens have to follow. There would be no de facto because although the citizens have to follow the law, they do not have to agree with it. Probably later down the road, de jure and de facto could have been in correlation possibly before the 1900s.
Ethnicity Difference It is interesting and wonderful to see people from different race and ethnicity live together in one country such as the United States of America. One of the names that the U.S. called is the "melting pot," which is a metaphor that mainly refers to the claimed fact that the U.S. welcomes people from all races, cultures, and religions. People immigrate to the U.S. coming from Mexico, North America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and all over the world. Some come to live a better lifestyle, have a good job, study in college, or to stay away from wars, and of course there are many other reasons.
The United States has Changed from a Melting Pot to a Vast Culture with Varying Racial Backgrounds