There are many diverse groups within the Native Americans dealing with their history‚ beliefs‚ rituals‚ religion and all around culture. This is very important to understand because each different culture group will relate to different aspects of life and Social Workers need to understand this in order to engage and assess with each individual‚ as well as‚ the community. Also knowing that each different group will cope with issues in different ways‚ a specific example would be engaging with people
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Hispanic American Diversity Eth/125 Cultural Diversity (Axia) Hispanic American Diversity Introduction The four Hispanic groups I am going to be writing about are Mexican American‚ Cuban Americans‚ Puerto Ricans‚ and El Salvadorians. The interesting part of these four groups is that they speak the Spanish language. When speaking Spanish‚ each of these four groups‚ have a different dialect; however‚ the spelling is the same‚ they are pronounced the same‚ the words have different meanings. In
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Native Alaskan Culture When most of us that live in the United States especially those of us who live in the lower forty-eight things about Native Alaskans we think of the term Eskimos a term most of us learned about from watching movies that were made in Hollywood. This assumption‚ however‚ is most likely wrong due to a lack of education or cultural awareness on our part. The Native Alaskan people are divided into distinct cultures. These cultures speak eleven different languages with twenty-two
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Cultural Project: Native Americans and Alaska Natives Introduction The outline and presentation for this assignment generally follows the presentations from Giger’s (2009) Application of Assessment and Intervention Techniques to Specific Cultural Groups. There are over 500 Federally Recognized tribes in the U.S.‚ plus some additional tribes recognized by states‚ plus unknown number of smaller unrecognized tribes. Many are also divided into clans and loosely categorized into major groups.
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Hispanic Americans are an American (group of people related by culture‚ race‚ religion‚ etc.) who start either from Latin America or Spain. There are more than 50 million Hispanic Americans in the United States‚ making up over 16 percent of the total American population. The group is composed of people starting from the following countries: Mexico‚ Cuba‚ Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic; Central American countries Costa Rica‚ El Salvador‚ Nicaragua‚ Guatemala‚ Honduras and Panama; and Argentina
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Hispanic American Diversity Ethics 125 Hispanic American Diversity In the United States there are several Hispanic groups that led to a diverse culture of Hispanic Americans. The Hispanic Americans are not just from one culture but are from a multitude of cultures. Each culture has different views in regard to politics‚ religion‚ and even cultural customs. MEXICAN AMERICANS Mexican Americans began immigrating slowly into the United States as early as the 1850’s. Migration initially was
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When the first Hispanic colonists came to North America in 1769‚ the population of the Native Americans dropped critically. There used to be over 300‚000 Native Americans in California. The Hispanics forced the Native Americans into slave labour and in no time‚ European diseases such as smallpox‚ influenza‚ measles‚ and typhus which the Spanish and French settlers brought from Europe to America broke out and killed over 100‚000 Native Americans in California alone. The first treaties guaranteed reservations
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Asian women were exposed to American values since an early age. Nevertheless‚ they were detested and oppressed by the American society. They were facing a major identity crisis because they were in between the need to fulfill their parents’ expectations and the inclination to be in an American culture (Fan 79). In an Asian family‚ the tradition is to value elders and other members above one’s own individual self. Especially in patriarchal Asian communities‚ family is defined as the “central
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I chose to look at the Hispanic culture. Hispanic families put the utmost importance on family. This means they support each other in any way they can financially‚ emotionally‚ and socially. Hispanic families tend to be very close and care more about the whole then the individual; older siblings will often take care of the younger ones. In Hispanic families‚ the males tend to take on the role of authority with the eldest in charge. Women in Hispanic families gravitate towards being the caretaker’s;
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2/7/2011 Youth Suicide in Native Americans “I’m all alone nobody cares whether I live or die. All I ever do is cause problems for everyone. I can’t make it through school‚ I cause my family problems. I’m a failure in everything that is important to me. The only way out of this is to die.”(Suicide letter) This is what it must feel like to be on the verge of suicide‚ a horrible epidemic which has spread through the nation’s Native American tribe’s wildfire. Subsequently‚ suicide ranked
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