“RACE AND POVERTY IN LATIN AMERICA” In the short article called “Race AND POVERTY IN LATIN AMERICA,” by Judith Morrison, the one thing that I liked the most was how the author described that the Latin American culture is not considered to be a leading culture in the general population to lead itself to America’s growth and development (Morrison pg-1). Due to this reason, Latinos in America still struggle with discrimination that affects their culture traits of their way of life to make good money for the companies they work for as well to have a good social life in the American culture. As statics begin to grow from Latinos and African Americans coming into America, inequality still occurs in both cultures to allow opportunities for these
Historical Report on Race, Asian Americans While Asian Americans "only" make up about 5% of the U.S.'s population as of 2008, they are one of the fastest growing racial/ethnic groups (in terms of percentage increase) in the U.S. The Asian American community has received a lot of scrutiny over the years but in many ways, still remains misunderstood. As many social scientists have noted, there are two primary stereotypes that continue to affect Asian Americans. One is that all Asian Americans are the same. That is, many people are either unable or unwilling to distinguish between different Asian ethnicities -- Korean American from a Japanese American, Filipino American from an Indonesian American, etc.
Society thinks that if you are of Hispanic/Mexican background you are a Welfare baby or mom, that you just want the money. In reality there is a good mix of people that are on Welfare, it’s not just Mexicans/Hispanics. According to neoperspectives.com there is a higher rate of white non-Hispanic people on welfare. If you are African America/black you are automatically a gang banger, when there are Latino’s, Ku Klux Klan (white supremacist), Hells Angels, Bloods, chapter 13, skin heads, these are just a few to name some gangs. As shown Wikipedia "List of Gangs in the United States."
Terkel’s essay demonstrates that people of different race are stereotyped against and how this can play a role in the work place. Stephen Cruz shows how his new manger believes in a stereotype about blacks. “I received instructions from him on how I should interview blacks. Just check and see if they smell, okay?” (354). In addition, he describes the stereotypes for a Mexican, “… you’re a happy guy to have around, pleasant but emotional….good to have as part of the management team, as long as you weren’t allowed to make decisions (355).
I think this was the case in my workplace, due to naivety and lack of confidence. My deputy manager had very differing styles of work, so this caused a lot of conflict between ourselves, then amongst the team. She was very loud and blunt, to the point of being slightly aggressive and overbearing. I am much quieter, calmer, and more tolerant. Different personalities is a big factor in workplace conflict.
The second generation Asians, born in the United States could not get better paying jobs because of the discrimination against them. The source of the prejudice and discrimination will always be that American’s thought they were superior to the Asians. After reading and researching about this racial group I have come to understand them better than I originally did. I didn’t know much of their culture or their history so it was a good look in the past for me. Although I have never treated another human being any differently than how I would want to be treated I think I will look at every Asian in a different light because of what their ancestors have
She is now scared that the factory may explode at any moment. Your Assignment You are an employee at this factory. You have worked there for over 10 years and know everyone from the owner to the co-workers. This situation has you nervous as well, but you don’t know what to do because you do not want to get anyone in trouble. You decide to speak with several people at the factory.
However, ethnic minorities are still under-represented in congress, whites still register and vote more than any other ethnic group and unemployment is high amongst minorities. Despite this, Asians are one group which achieve the American dream to a large extent. A key part of the American dream is democracy. This includes the right to political participation. Ethnic minorities are using this right to an extent since voting turnout rates increased between 2004-2008.
1. Identify and discuss the key factors that led to the breakdown of industrial relations at HMSI. Although HMSI have good HR policies taking place, management failed to implement such HR polices creating a breakdown of industrial relations at HMSI. There were several incidents, according to the case study, that created a gap between workers and management such as the gift that employees rejected and was later directly transferred to their bank accounts. Management’s implementation of the movement sheet and strict leave policy, denying leaves even for some serious and emergency situation, as well favoritism and constant threat of termination when requesting shift changes contributed to the collapse of industrial relations.
Issues in the case Through the case I was able to identify several issue between business and information technology. First being poor communication between the two. This problem was immediately made clear. On page 78 there was a good example of this when Paul Gutierez talks to Jenny about how the new technology meeting went. The IT team had the business team so confused during the meeting that they eventually just tuned out and IT never actually got to talking about how the new technology could be used for marketing and why it was a good idea.