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Racial and Ethnic Groups Matrix Dikkia Murvin SOC/262- Contemporary American Society August 16, 2012 Tara Tolbert University of Phoenix Material Racial and Ethnic Groups Matrix Complete the matrix below by answering the questions for each group. | |Race vs. Ethnicity |Origins and Past Experiences |Challenges in the U.S. |American Identity |Personal Experiences and | | | | | | |Comments | | |Is this an ethnic or|Where did this group originate' How did this group become a part of|What challenges has this grouped |How is this group |Have you witness any racism or | | |racial group and |American culture' |faced in the U.S.' |portrayed today in |prejudice toward this group' | | |why' | | |American society' |Any additional comments' | |Native Americans |Racial Group |Native Americans have history in the Americas dating back 50,000 |Maintaining political sovereignty |Many native |Yes, their dependents that are | | |Defined by skin |years, making them the longest human species to inhabit the |which is under constant and |Americans are |mixed are not treated fairly by| | |color and facial |amerces. |perpetual assault, the tribes’ |portrayed as thieves|their own people; unless there | | |features. |Some scientist state that they migrated from Asia during the ice |native language is becoming |in social media; |is proof that you have at least| | |It is an inferior |age. |extinct. When the elders die so |fighting and killing|35% of their blood in you or a | | |race | |will their language |the |death certificate of the native| | | | | |Anglo Americans over|American decedent. | | | | | |their land. They are|I am a decedent of a Cherokee | | | | | |able to receive |Indian woman that married a | | | | | |school grants |white man and had children that| | | | | |without hassle and |married black men; I know this | | | | | |are allowed health |racial groups struggle with | | | | | |insurance. |being accepted and frowned upon| | | | | | |within its own group. | |African Americans |Racial Group |African Americans are a difficult group to distinguish where they |Most of the struggles this racial |The media portrays |Yes and no; however my parents | | |Defined by skin |are from; Senegal and gambia-5.8% sierra leone-3.4%, ivory |group faces is within its own |African Americans as|have endured it in the 50’s and| | |color and facial |coast-12.1% bight of benin-14.5% bight of Biafra-25.1% central and |community; killing one another |uncivilized and not |60’s due to living in the | | |features. |southeast Africa(Cameroon-Angola) 24.7%- they were stolen and |–fighting stereotypes and pushing |human. Black men are|south. I face workplace | | |It is an inferior |exported to America to become slaves. |against the institutional barriers |seen as lazy, dead |prejudices, but it I was raised| | |race | |that have been strengthened by |beats, killers and |to believe that people fear | | | | |those in favor of maintaining a |drug dealers. The |what they don’t know and what | | | | |historical precedent or status quo |women and portrayed |the opposite race knows. That | | | | | |as whores and |is why this group was | | | | | |gold-diggers |prohibited from obtaining an | | | | | | |education and the dominate | | | | | | |group used religion to oppress | | | | | | |this racial group. | |Mexican Americans |Racial Group |Come from Mexico. This country is located south of the United |Becoming legal citizens and working|Mexican Americans |no | | |Defined by skin |States of America. Mexicans are a mix of Indians that lived on the|legally in the United States. They |are portrayed as | | | |color and facial |land for hundreds of years and Spanish immigrants from Spain that |have been in |negatively impacting| | | |features. |later came to that country-began creating communities | |the work force by | | | |It is an inferior |cities and steel producing regions when they obtained employment | |obtaining jobs | | | |race |there during World War | |illegally and as | | | | | | |drug smugglers in | | | | | | |the media | | |Muslim and Arab |Ethnic Group |Arab Americans trace their origin to the various waves of |Since 911, this ethnic group has |As terrorists by the|no | |Americans |A social group |immigrants of the countries including Lebanon, Syria, and |faced challenges on getting society|media | | | |that’s distinguished|Palestine. |to belief that their religious | | | | |by |By immigrating to the U.S.A. |practices do not promote violence | | | | |Religious belief and| |and that all that are a part of | | | | |culture | |this ethnic group are not | | | | | | |terrorists | | | |Asian Americans |Racial Group |In Asia; Asian (usually Chinese) immigrants |Face widespread discrimination in |Asian Americans as |no | | |Defined by skin |Were welcomed, or at least tolerated. |the workplace and are often victims|foreigners who | | | |color and facial |After the California gold rush brought |of racially motivated harassment |cannot be | | | |features. |thousands of Chinese to California, however, |and violence. Widespread failure of|assimilated. Because| | | |It is an inferior |Asian immigrants faced restrictive laws and occasional violence. |government at all levels and of the|they are racially | | | |race |In the late 1800s, Chinese, and eventually other Asians, were |nation's public schools to provide |and culturally | | | | |excluded from citizenship. These laws were repealed during World |for the needs of immigrant |distinctive from the| | | | |War II, followed by further immigration-law changes, making it |Asian-Americans. |American mainstream,| | | | |easier for Asians to enter the United States. | |Asian people have | | | | | | |been widely seen as | | | | | | |unable to be | | | | | | |absorbed into | | | | | | |American society. | | | | | | |Asian Americans | | | | | | |restricted to | | | | | | |clichéd occupations-| | | | | | |restaurant workers, | | | | | | |Korean grocers, | | | | | | |Japanese | | | | | | |businessmen, Indian | | | | | | |cab drivers, TV | | | | | | |anchorwomen, martial| | | | | | |artists, gangsters, | | | | | | |faith healers, | | | | | | |laundry workers, and| | | | | | |prostitutes. This | | | | | | |misrepresents the | | | | | | |diversity of the | | | | | | |Asian American work | | | | | | |force. | | |Jewish Americans |Ethnic Group |Origin-Semitic people of the eastern Mediterranean. They were known|Maintaining their Jewish identity |Jews are still |no | | |A social group |to the Egyptian as Habiru-hill tribes of pastoralists and brigands |and holding true to their |stereotyped as | | | |that’s distinguished|in the highlands that became Judah- they immigrated to the United |traditions. Parents then face the |greedy, nit-picky, | | | |by |States during the World war when Hitler was trying to oppress this |challenge of instilling in their |stingy misers. | | | |Religious belief and|ethnic group |children a Jewish identity as well | | | | |culture | |as pride in their native culture | | | |Anglo Americans |Racial Group |Origin-inhabitant of the Americas that immigrated here from England|I couldn’t find anything |I could not find |No- it is a shame that you can | | |Skin color and | | |anything |find all types of negative | | |facial features | | | |things about other ethnic and | | |Inferior group | | | |racial groups; however, there | | | | | | |isn’t anything about Anglo | | | | | | |Americans. this is unfair and | | | | | | |biased |