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    To Keep Racial Diversity in Longtown I would say it's best for the families that stand strong for their town to continue being persistent and prideful like former families have been doing for two centuries in Longtown.In the article ¨Ohio town holds rare history:Races mix freely for nearly 200 years¨ by Washington Post, In paragraph 2 it is mentioned that ¨Now that way of living is in danger of being lost because Longtown people are dying, and whites are moving in and buying thier property¨ I feel

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    Racial Diversity is a sensitive topic, especially with all of the current controversy about race. One specific issue pertaining to this is the portrayal and representation of Asian people in media (i.e. television, movies, magazines, etc.). I hope to bring awareness to this controversial matter in a respectful and peaceful manner through in depth research. As an Asian-American woman, I am extremely passionate about this issue because it hits home. I live in a society where there is not a lot of representation

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    Cognitive Effects of Racial Diversity: White Individuals' Information Processing in Heterogeneous Groups by Samuel R. Sommers, Lindsey S. Warp, Corrine C. Mahoney explained thoroughly how race can affect one’s critical thinking. Like other past experiments that have attempted to study and understand the effects of being in a diverse environment often focus on performance based on participants. Instead of doing the same thing, our experimenters decided to focus on understanding the psychological background

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    The United States is a nation full of immense ethnic and racial diversity. Ever since its formation, social injustices have contradicted the values that its Constitution upholds. Anyone who studies U.S. history will soon find that the rights of many groups of people were not won without extreme struggle. The first blacks taken to the U.S. saw their status change from supposedly second-class slaves to bona fide citizens of American society, although the change was slow and wrought with trauma. All

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    lack of diversity that many people may get bothered by. "However, the 25 movies with casts 21 to 30 percent Black/Latino/Asian had by far the highest median global box office, at $160.1 million. The next highest median global box office came from films with 11 to 20 percent Blacks/Latinos/Asians, at $75.5 million. The 88 films with the least diverse casts had a median global box office of just $68.5 million"(Lin). This shows that if TV shows and movies were to change the racial diversity in their

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    The course of American Studies has taught me see how drastically people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds experiences life in America.  In the many novels, videos, stories, poems, and other written words that we have read, made me better understand the struggles and adversity people of other race and nation of origin have trying to fit in a new society. Across these texts, I realized they have all tied together to continuously fight for acceptance be placed in a new community with people

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    international community of the internet. However, it is apparent that both Twitter and Facebook have varied approaches when inviting those of racial diversity onto their platforms and making them feel welcomed there. It has become an accepted business practice to meet a certain quota of hiring from diverse racial groups. This trend of identifying racial diversity began with “the idea of setting targets has its roots in affirmative action policies in the US and South Africa” (Jacobs, 1). Previous social

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    After reading the ethnic and racial differences chapter, what stood out for me was how much ethnicity and culture could negatively affect a student’s academic life. It is important to treat those of different ethnicities, races and cultures the same as you would treat anyone else, including yourself. Ethnicity is defined as ‘a cultural heritage or characteristics shared by a group, such as history, homeland, language, traditions or religion’ (Woolfolk & Margetts, Educational Psychology, 2016). There

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    Racial Diversity Race is a part of our culture that shapes who we are as a society. Race helps us make up how one sees the world around us and the different multitudes of ethnic groups. Different raciest are compassed by how we view one’s languages, values, and beliefs, “race that continues to shape the practice and politics of citizenship in ways that are often obscured in modern citizenship debates” (Collins. 2014) causing for racial diversity. In the past race was concerted either black

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    keep racial diversity in Longtown, Ohio. To the people of Longtown, Ohio, finding ways to keep the racial diversity is important. In Longtown, they have had races mix freely for nearly 200 years. This is dating back to before the Civil War. The Civil War started on April 12, 1861, while the town in Ohio had accepted everyone, starting in 1816. Accepting everyone is an important virtue for everyone to learn. No one needs to be judged, or feel judged. One way that Longtown, Ohio can keep racial diversity

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