The Population Of The United States

There are two different dimensions of our identities: ethnicity and race. Ethnicity refers to one’s belonging to a specific cultural, or racial group that makes up culture, race language, and/or place of origin. For example, one can be African-American but have different ethnicities, one African-American and the other African-Caribbean decent. Race is a social construct that can be changed over time. Historically, referring to its specific characteristics one possesses based on: ethnicity, religion, or language; today's its classified solely based upon the color of one’s skin. Nevertheless, ethnic and racial identities are important and instill a sense of belonging and identifying with that specific group through attitude, behaviors. Moreover,

Culture is the Backbone of a society, when something/someone tries to alter it or go against it everyone will notice. In this issue pointed out by Ruth Macklin, we look at the problems that can arise when an individual’s culture and autonomy clash. Every year there at least 30 million immigrants from all over the world that move to the United states of America, making America one of the most culturally diverse country in the world. Keeping this in mind, we will focus on Ruth Macklin’s issue of Multiculturalism. Multiculturalism is the co-existence of diverse cultures, where culture includes racial, religious, or cultural groups and is manifested in customary behaviors, cultural assumptions and values, patterns of thinking, and communicative styles. Critics argue that we associate culture with a society, community and or family, but rarely with a single individual, thus placing it above the individual person. In this paper we are going to look at four different scenarios on from Ruth Macklin’s article.

Henceforth, in order to understand my own identity, required me to map my racial identity using Banks typology of ethnic identity development. As a result, I concluded that I belonged in stage four: biethnicity. Banks describes biethnicity for individuals who believe are a part of not only their own ethnic culture group, as well as in another one (88). To clarify, I participate in both Ecuadorian and American culture. For example, my family and I celebrate the American holiday known as Thanksgiving, regarding the traditional American cuisines. Instead, my family and I celebrate Thanksgiving and other American holidays

There was a time when America was segregated; Caucasians and African Americans were forced to attend different restrooms, restaurants, and water fountains. However, the era of segregation has been terminated; now America embraces and appreciates the various cultures and ethnicities that create this melting pot several people call home. Likewise, it is this melting pot, or mosaic, of races that multitudes of individuals have identified themselves with. Thus, race and ethnicity does matter for it portrays vital and crucial roles in the contemporary American society. Furthermore, ethnicity and race brings communities together in unity, determines which traditions and ideals individuals may choose to value, and imposes an impediment for it categorizes humans unjustly.

Ethnic distinctiveness is expected to eventually disappear, when it comes to third or fourth generation children. (Golash-Boza, 2006) Ethnic distinctiveness is directly related to ethnic identification and how a person sees themselves. (Golash-Boza, 2006) In society there are African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Latino(a)-Americans and Americans. The question of losing the hyphenation and just calling yourself “American” effect on integrating yourself into the American culture was raised and if so does calling yourself American rather than Latino(a) American mean that you have completely lost your ethnic identity? Ethnic identification plays a big role on cultural assimilation into the American culture. A survey was done to explore the relationship between ethnic identification and cultural assimilation and how it differs between the children of foreign born and U.S. born parents.

Richard Rodriguez's essay “Blaxicans and Other Reinvented Americans” reinforces the idea that race does not identify a person, culture is what defines a person and should be used to identify someone. Richard Rodriguez was in church listening when “[These people] were being welcomed into a new community for a reason of culture” (Rodriguez 90). Culture is being welcomed in church and other people are being nice enough to welcome a person just by their culture and traditions. Rodriguez’s considers himself Chinese because of that fact that he answered a survey with the following “I answered that I am Chinese, and that is because I live in a Chinese city and because I want to be Chinese. ”(Rodriguez 91).

Race and ethnicity is a main factor in the way we identify others and ourselves. The real question here is does race/ethnicity still matter in the U.S.? For some groups race is not a factor that affects them greatly and for others it is a constant occurrence in their mind. But how do people of mix race reacts to this concept, do they feel greatly affected by their race? This is the question we will answer throughout the paper. I will first examine the battle of interracial relationship throughout history and explain how the history greatly explains the importance of being multiracial today. This includes the backlash and cruelty towards interracial couple and their multiracial children. Being part of a multiracial group still contains its

The dual identity model embraces both majority and minority groups’ commonalities and their unique cultural differences; and it encourages both groups to take meaningful steps toward better acculturation. Researchers found that members of minority groups with a dual identity who identify with their minority group and acknowledge majority culture tend to be well adjusted, embraced diversity and engaged in healthier life style (Dovidio, Gaertner, & Saguy, 2009). Proposed dual identity model could be a suitable approach for promoting better acculturation among majority and minority groups, particularly in American multicultural context. Likewise, researchers also emphasized that “multiculturalism is becoming a model of partial assimilation, in which participating cultures maintain unique aspects of their culture, such as language, customs and beliefs” (Okun, Fried, & Okun, 1999, p. 214). Improved intercultural relations in a multicultural context will allow many immigrant and minority groups to fully participate in the acculturation process while maintaining their own cultural identities and respecting their cultural

America can come together as one with no issues of race, or prejudice when our country faces a crisis. Daily the reality is that the American society is a blend of ethnic, racial, religious, and cultural influences. With dramatic social changes, we have begun to see these influences gain strength with civil rights movement of the twentieth century and the emergence of information age in the late twentieth century (Schmalleger, Donaldson, Kashwahara, & Koppel, 2018). The dramatic results of this change have given the American society awareness of realized and potential contributions of the diverse elements. Multiculturalism has been defined as the existence within one society of diverse groups that maintain unique cultural identities while

For example, a black – white adolescent girl would wear two distinct hairstyles, sometimes an Afro hairdo and sometimes straight, to represent her black and white identifications. ( Rose 49). A lady with Chinese white parentage presented herself as “I am only half Chinese”, trying to deemphasizing her Asian identity and emphasizing her Caucasian heritage. (Sung 110). In some cases, the subject was not willing to define himself and he simply let others to define him. (Sung 110). The case studies indicate that biracial children easily fall into the trap of duality, confusion about oneself’s identification, and it leads to different problems like alienation, loneliness, which they are subjected to in daily life.

“The Census Bureau estimates there will be 315.1 million people living in the country on New Year’s Day, a 0.73 percent rise from last year’s estimate and 2.05 percent more than the most recent census count in April 2010. At the current pace, the nation’s population will grow by 7.3 percent during the decade, the lowest level since the 7.25 percent increase recorded between 1930 and 1940, per data compiled by Bloomberg”. U.S. continues to have slow rate of growth during their first decade, and economic downturn sine 1930s. Bloomberg blames the economy, because of abortion rate and its affecting the economy. According to the report provided by Census Bureau nation population was growing by 9.7 percent

The effect of global population is caused by 1. the lack of space to live, 2. water to drink, 3. the way food being process in America, 4. changing of temperature, and 5.we need to move to another planet. Global population is caused by the influx of people immigrating to the America since people believe that America is the land of opportunities. As the result, in America we have scarce resources such as food and water. The next step we need to to do is moving to the next closest planet, Mars. Although Mars do not have life at all we are aware that the little red planet contains water. The issue about moving to Mars is due to the atmosphere of Mars being heavily toxic to breath on . According Universe Today, “Mar’s surface is a dry, barren wasteland marked by old volcanoes and impact

This results in many restrictions for the pregnant Chinese woman. Some of these restrictions for the pregnant woman include; not being able to attend funerals or sad events, not lifting anything over her head, not handling scissors on the bed, not eating certain foods, and not wearing all black and white (Sullivan, 2012). Sex is also forbidden during pregnancy (Brown, 2008). The diet of a pregnant woman is guided by the idea that yin is for cold and yang is for hot (Murray, 2014). Pregnancy is considered to be a “hot” condition, so women typically consume “cold” food to keep yin and yang in balance (Raitisoja, 2008). Examples of yang (cold) food include bean sprouts and bananas and examples of yin (hot) food include bird’s nest soup and fermented pork feet with ginger (Sullivan, 2012). This is something that nurses need to understand, to be able to modify their food choices as much as possible during their hospital stay so they are able to continue with their traditions and rituals even in the hospital. It is also a common practice to wait until after the delivery of the child to throw a baby shower or even name the baby because it is considered bad luck to do so before the baby is born (Brown, 2008).

The subject of race, within the field of sociology, can often be viewed as both a fluid concept and a cultural experience. Contrary to popular belief, race is not biological, but is a socially constructed category of people that share the same biological traits. Race can often change over time and is formed primarily by our personal views and the views of others. These can range from ethnicity to self-presentation and feelings of place within society. One example of the fluidity of race can be seen based upon the classification of the White or Caucasian race. In today’s culture, this race has been drastically increased to include a vast array of “white” individuals.

I am a special little snowflake. A multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural snowflake. My mother is black and Hispanic. My dad is white. Finally, I am a diverse combination of races, constantly juggling the ideas beliefs and traditions of the different races and entities. While some people stare at me, an authority of the human race, others praise me for my beautiful balance of the different ethnicities, a perfect definition of being truly mixed and diverse. Hitherto something has been missing. My culture. I ponder what culture I belong to, wondering if I will able to answer this absolute exhilarating question, solving this existential crisis. As I deeply reflect about my culture, I realize, I am not multiracial. I am only one race, which is the state of being black, white, and Hispanic. With the realization that I am not really a special snowflake, I reassure myself with one fact: I am still multi ethnic. After all, I can have one race but still have several different entities. Assuring myself that this crisis is nothing and I am still unique I realize this does not affect my culture. People of different races and ethnicities can be apart of the same culture. Nevertheless, my family has never embraced or exhibition a culture that represents us. As a multi ethnic family, we are content. We don't flaunt our heritage by hanging the flags our heritage, or exclusively eat the traditional food passed down by our ancestors, or wear the clothes similar to the people with the same ethnicities as us. My culture has not defined by my family. Now it is my turn to define it. My culture is what represents me, from food, clothing, and language to my values and beliefs.