For example, in 1999 the College Board reported that the average score for college bound women was 43 points below the average score for a college bound man. ... Among high school seniors who entered college in the fall of 1999, the African Americans' averages scores on the SAT I verbal section was 93 points below European American students' average scores. On the average, African Americans scored 106 points less than European Americans on the math portion, (Jencks and Phillips, p.3). ... Rather an examination of a child's family tree or the educational history must take place i...

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Another interesting fact that was included in the study was the comparison of grade point averages and SAT scores. "The average grade point average for a rejected white student was 3.66 with an SAT score of 1142. The average grade point average for an accepted African-American student was 3.66 with an SAT score of 1030." ... That no matter what minority that you are from you still deserve some form of compensation for the wrongs that were done not only to your ethnicity, but also to their past family relatives. ... They feel that this law is unfair, taking away more gifts that I can give to ...

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What can be said of the ethnic minority groups as a whole is that they tend to be considerably younger than the population at large - the average age of whites is 37, that of Afro-Caribbean being 33, Indians 31 and Bangladeshis 18. ... Afro-Caribbean women are also doing well in terms of employment and income although a third of the children comes from a single-parent family. British Indians are, on average, better off than white Britons, but there is a high inequality within the group, particularly among women. ... Some immigrant community members may wish to remain traditionalist despite t...

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Many black families related to them. ... It was about a black family making it to the top in New York City. ... Both were of well-to-do families that were proud of their heritage. ... Family Matters showed focus on a middle-class black family living in Alba 6 Chicago. ... They were portraying the average black family. ...

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They work hard and have strong family values. ... Ethnic minorities are worse off than the British community, especially Pakistani, and Bangladeshi families. In 1997, 82% of Pakistani households and 84% of Bangladeshi households had an income below half the national average, owing to high rates of male unemployment, low rates of women's economic activity, low wages and large households. ...

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According to statisticsbrain.com the average American spends 35 hours a week watching TV", then spending it with their family members. ... She was known to have a temper and take it out on the family especially her husband, which was mostly represented as a Sambo. ...

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They scarify their lives for their family and countries. ... The consequence is to lose the harmony in the family relationship similar with hunger of memory, the easy mother tongue also discusses bilingual problem they faced by Asian American people. ... Their influence on American institution and culture will expand largely because of their high average educational levels and increasing interaction with non- Asian. ...

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The existence of single-father families is very low; only 3.4% of white children, and 4.0% of black children reside with solely their fathers (U.S. ... In addition, 63% of families maintained by white grandparents had both grandparents present, compared to only 35% of families maintained by black grandparents (U.S. ... Also, based on the Census Bureau statistics, the absence of the black father in a vast amount of families is a huge blow to the advancement of the young black man. ... With out a family to rely on, a growing black man is being sent up the river with out a paddle. The tragic ...

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The government has given blacks many ways to get in and out of college and it's not fair for the average white person. ... A black athlete then doesn't have to be as smart as the average white athlete to get into college. ... They say that since they grew up in a poor family, they can't do good or excel, but anyone can do good or excel if they put their mind to it. ... Many whites grow up in poor families, and they can't use excuses either. ...

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Some being how much money their family makes, what their ethnic background is, what district they live in, and whether they have family that attended or are presently attending U-High. ... I had an A average in junior high school with three sports, many extra curricular activities, and won many math competition awards. Everyone in my family has attended U-High, ever since it was formed. ...

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A model minority is a minority group, whether ethnic, racial, or religious in certain countries whose members are most often perceived to achieve a higher degree of socioeconomic success than the population average. This success is typically measured in income, education and related factors such as low crime rate and high family stability. ... If the rest of the world is to be able to adapt, they have to instruct their families of friends of their culture to adapt to the English language. ...

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We strongly believe that respect for the inherent dignity and well-being of each member of the human family is the psychological foundation of freedom, human justice, and peace in the world. ... The first interaction I had with a black person was when my family and I took a vacation to the Bahamas. ... We didn't learn about the oblivious racism, or white advantages, as I suspect most of the people in the US didn't either.The author, Peggy McIntosh quotes Elizabeth Minnich who pointed out "Whites are taught to think of their lives a morally neutral, normative, and average, and also id...

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Her rational powers and will to action facilitate her efforts to find strategies for dealing with sexual harassment from her master, for maintaining family unity, and in establishing a moral code in harmony with her beliefs and situation. ... He was separated from his mother at a very young age, as was typical of many Negro families. ... Throughout his autobiography, Douglass conveys the horrors that were typical the average slave. ...

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However Malcolm Little was still an average youngster who wanted a good life but was stopped by racism. ... After his mother had a nervous breakdown his family was spilt up. ... Elijah Muhammad spoke of how the Black man was the Original Man, who had been kidnapped from his homeland and stripped of his language, his culture, his family structure, his family name, until the Black man in America did not even realize who he was. ...

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She, therefore, feels ties to everyone in the house, as most relationships within the house are indeed close, and chooses to live upstairs in the house more as a guest to Valerian than a family member of the help. Willie enters the picture as a depersonalized, average-class black man who has just escaped work on a boat and needs a place to stay. ... The central character of the book, Jadine, is judged by everyone around her; her black family members, friends, and lovers because she has adopted so completely the culture of the white man, and then every white person that she does encounter, base...

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Businesses began to recruit poor, white families from the country whom they would bring in to work for them. The labor of an entire white family was incredibly cheap, so blacks were not wanted. ... In the decade from 1890 to1899, lynchings in the U.S. averaged 188 per year, 82 percent of which occurred in the South (America 854). ...

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At first glance, an average viewer would not notice the racial stereotype that is being used in this commercial. ... People of other ethnicities expect all Latinos to speak Spanish, but that is not the case for many Latin American families, today. ...

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In the 1960's, affirmative action, also known as positive discrimination, was created in order to help benefit minority groups in several areas of society. Under this policy, colleges have been encouraged to take race and ethnicity into account for their admissions process. One idea behind affirmative action is that it compensates for the huge disadvantage African American people have in America, which is that their entire culture is rooted in slavery and for most of their history here, they did not have basic rights. Due to this history, black people are still often subject to discrimina...

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Negative eugenics seeks to decrease reproduction among people believed to be inferior or below average mentally and physically (Glass). ... Another danger is the sort of "homemade eugenics" where families decide the traits and capacities they want in their children. ...

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She gives an example, "My schooling followed the pattern which Elizabeth Minnich has pointed out: whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow 'them' to become more like 'us'. ... "Our children are given texts and classes that implicitly support our kind of family unit and do not turn them against my choice of domestic partnership, and I can talk about the social events of a weekend without fearing most listener's reactions." ...

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According to Forbes, in the 2011 Super Bowl, when compared to advertisements with animals, the average non animal Super Bowl ad was 14% less effective, and advertisements containing celebrities were 21% less effective (Forbes). ...

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