Minorities are often excluded from U.S. history. When included, minorities are offered a stereotypical view of their position in society. ... Second, minority students internalize the offered view that their culture is unimportant, or at very best, secondary. ... In fact, teachers, in subtle and blatant ways, discouraged minority students from higher educational pursuits. ... On average, minorities score lower than whites on standardized tests. ...

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If a minority culture does not submissively assimilate its ideas with those of the majority, the majority feels justified in excluding and minimizing this smaller subset of people. Those in the majority position remain unaware that the people who make up the minority have a different cultural way of life that should be valued and included. This lack of awareness can be harmful and painful to minority groups when their cultural styles are neglected by a more prevailing presence. ... Associated with the clinical experiences of working with patients in foreign societies, or working with minority ...

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Literature indicates that, in comparison to children of other ethnic minority groups, American Native children are at greater risk for emotional and behavioral disorders and negative psychosocial conditions such as poverty, family and community violence, substance abuse, and substandard living conditions (Morris, et al., 2001). ... The manual also includes an appendix of "culture-bound syndromes" that are "recurrent, locality-specific patterns of aberrant behavior and troubling experience that may or may not be linked to a particular DSM-IV diagnostic category" (American Psychiatric Associati...

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The Gothic personality includes traits such as creativity; interest in the supernatural, beauty etc and Goths see the beauty in the darker side of life and make angst and depression a lifestyle choice. ... Porter states that, satanists are only found in a minority in the culture, just as they would be found in the rest of society in other cultures. ...

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1. Introduction 1.1 Background In the course of the most recent years it has gotten to be basic that some huge leading firms are extending their products in a lot of nations and becoming tremendous both in size and financially. Something intriguing can be found is the point at which these sorts of f...

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(McLeod, p. 410) Although the Australian education system nominally embraces multiculturalism and has policies which celebrate cultural diversity, there is a pervading attitude in many schools which subtly reinforces this idea of an ethnocentric culture, where the minority groups are portrayed as 'other.' ...

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A culture may include rituals, religion, economic systems, language, a style of dress, a way of cooking, and a political system. ... A research conducted by the author (Tian 1987) in a minority region in China (a tradition-based culture) indicates that culture influences consumer behavior regarding products distribution. ...

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