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  • Assimilation Into White Culture
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    Separation or Assimilation Our country, The United States of America, was essentially founded on the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness through solidarity of human kind. In Bernard R. Boxill's article, "Separation or Assimilation", he fundamentally poses the Hamlet esque question: to assimilate or not to assimilate. Subsequent to the dilemma of some black cultural nationalists, whom not only argue for assimilation of the black American populace, but also believe that this ...
  • Race And The Culture Of Anthropology
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    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...
  • Need For Trans Racial Adoptive Parents
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    Title: CULTURAL COMPETENCE FOR TRANSRACIAL ADOPTIVE PARENTS, By: Von, M. Elizabeth, Social Work, 0037-8046, July 1, 2001, Vol. 46, Issue 3 Database: Academic Search Premier CULTURAL COMPETENCE FOR TRANSRACIAL ADOPTIVE PARENTS This article provides a clear conceptual definition of cultural competence for trans racial -- cultural adoptive (TRA) parents based on an extensive review of the literature and feedback from both experts and parents. Following the differentiation of cultural competence as ...
  • Ethnic Identity The Maori Race
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    Examining the ideas and beliefs within ones own cultural context is central to the study of Anthropology. Issues of Race and Ethnicity dominate the academic discourses of various disciplines including the field of Anthropology. Race and Ethnicity are controversial terms that are defined and used by people in many different ways. This essay shall explore the ways in which Anthropologists make a distinction between race and ethnicity and how these distinctions serve as frames for cross-cultural co...
  • Cultural Constructions Of Race
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    Through research of DNA samples, scientists have been able to declare that race is not biologically constructed due to the similarities between human genes. Nevertheless, in reality, people still emphasized on biological aspects such as skin color, or hair texture to categorize others into different races. This in turn, denied the true identity of race, which it is culturally constructed. Ethnicity, by definition is also culturally constructed, therefore it greatly resemble race. There is no rea...
  • Problem With Other Races And Cultures
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    Racism For the first time in the history of the United States racial and ethnic groups, once thought of as minorities, are beginning to outnumber the percentage of white Americans. Our nation's diversity has already begun to alter everything in society from politics and education, to industry, values, and culture. This is an extremely hard concept for many whites to accept. Long before this issue became a concern, our presumption of the "typical" United States citizen was someone who could trace...
  • Different Social Construction Of Race
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    Where Did Race Come From Jeffrey M. Fish, a psychologist who studied Brazilian culture and how they classify themselves stated that different cultures classify physical differences in different ways. We classify these differences as race, but there is no such thing as race. Race is just a myth. Americans believe that Asians, blacks, Hispanics, and whites constitute biological entities called races, but it is a matter of cultural interest rather than scientific substance. This idea tells more abo...
  • Camels Move At Four Different Speeds
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    This paper offers a description of camel racing as a growing traditional cultural heritage sport in Gulf Arab societies. An integrated approach is used in describing and analyzing the multiple aspects and functions of the races as an evolving cultural revival within the broad contexts of oil wealth, the building of modern nation-state, and modern global forces. Camel racing is analyzed as an activity for distributing oil wealth among the Bedouin segment of the United Arab Emirates national popul...
  • Human Races
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    According to Blau ner the similarities in white and black perceptions are... Whites focus historically on negative black behaviors; 86% disagreed with the Rodney King trial verdict, see race as an expression of racial conduct; don t see it as a as some larger pattern of racism (institutionalized or not); see racism in the past (not the present! ); that racism doesn t exist anymore, see progress in the scale of integration; the size of the black middle class is emphasized by whites; demonstrate t...
  • Hitler's View As The Defilement Of Blood
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    ESSAY Adolf Hitler's piece entitled Mein Kampf is based on his "own theories of government, and his plans for the development of his National Socialist (Nazi) party, and his eventual conquest of Europe" (Hitler 389). Hitler begins by expressing his view of the fundamental principles of Nature's rule and the consequences for acting out of nature. He describes higher development and how it resulted in the defilement of blood. He then talks about culture and creativity and how cultures are perished...

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