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    Introduction: Researchers have found that although Canadian society features growing diversity, this diversity usually is not reflected in media content. For example, research show that ethnic-racial minorities have rarely been seen at annual and nationally television Juno awards ceremony for the Canadian music industry (Tepperman, Curtis, 2013, p.354). Americans children’s are the most powerful consumer in the world .As we seen in the movie “consuming kids” in which it show how youth marketers have

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    There have been more minorities in the law enforcement strategies since the 1960’s where civil rights legislation were enacted. However, there have been concerns especially when Republicans are in power that equal representation is ignored (Stokes, 1996). By 2007, 1 in 4 police officers was a racial or ethnic minority an improvement compared to 1987 where it was 1 in 6 (Reaves, 2010). Ensuring the representation of ethnic minorities in the criminal justice professions should not be ignored as this

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    Diversity and America’s social debt with ethnic minorities 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

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    Essay about Ethnic Minority Prisoners in Britain

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    Prison can be a daunting and psychological challenge for anyone. Experiences can have lifelong effects and can often traumatise those incarcerated. However the experience minority ethnic prisoners face can be deemed diverse. They can become victims of discrimination, racism violence and harassment all on the basis of their race, skin colour, or nationality. Scott and Codd (2010, P. 70) note that ‘prisoners from certain believed culturally or biologically determined ‘racial groups’ are understood

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    and internal resentment between ethnic minorities and native citizens is approaching an all-time high. Syrian refugees often arrive in poor health (Böttcher, 2015), and so are received  with mixed emotions. What makes Germany in particular a perfect case study is that Germany has one of the most complicated and nuanced history of nationalist identity. While still lagging behind political representation in several other European democracies, more ethnic minorities and immigrants have entered the German

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    PATTERNS OF SOCIAL AND ETHNIC RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION AMONG SOCIAL GROUPS & ETHNIC MINORITIES Residential segregation can be explained as special appearance of social inequality, unequal distribution of social, ethnic, etc. groups. The spatial objective reflection of the complicated system of social relation can interpret the socio-economic structure of the city, and the allocation of different social groups. Appears in space in segregation curve where higher and lower social classes are much different

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    Question 1 What are the challenges faced by ethnic minorities in the U.S. What disparities exist, why, and what are the consequences for individuals and families? Remember to address the challenges facing immigrant families in your answer. Some of the numerous challenges that minorities face in the United States include a higher rate of poverty, less education and educational opportunities, some minorities experience a language barrier, and all have unfair stereotypes and discrimination. The first

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    Treatment of Ethnic Minorities by Nazi Germany Hitler hated three kinds of people- Jews, communists and democracy and in his view they were all connected. Hitler believed that the Aryan people were the master race, and most of theses people were Germans. He believed that Jews were an "inferior species". He believed that what the Jews believed in was spreading and crushing Germany. Anything Jewish was wrong. He spoke of a myth that the Jewish bankers planned to break

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    .) Are racial/ethnic minorities and female students more likely (or less likely) to face any particular stressful discrete life events than those faced by all students? Racial/ ethnic minorities and female students are more likely to face ambient stressors than those faced by all students. They have always been classified as the lower status, lowest socioeconomic status group among any other race. Females, especially at universities are most likely to face stressful life events than any other students

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    “War on Drugs” policies and the Effects on Ethnic Minorities Now is the time to correct the mistakes from the damaging, “War on Drugs” policies, initiated by President Nixon and expanded militarily though the Ronald Reagan administration. According to the Coalition for Public Safety, “Our country has an “over criminalization” problem and an “over incarceration” problem and it’s getting worse. It is increasingly growing at an unsustainable rate and costing American’s nearly $80 billion per year

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