ethnic progress in usa?

Question

anyone have any suggestions of points i can make in an essay discussing the social/economical progress of blacks, hispanics, and asian and pacific islanders in the USA... answers dont need to be long. all suggestions appreciated, .. plz site source if used

Answer 1

Be sure to include the fact -- which I am sure is a fact -- that their progress is largely dependent upon how quickly and how well they learn English.

Blacks, of course, have grown up around English, but lately there has been a movement to emphasize rather than diminish their language differences with standard English. I believe this is a mistake. I also believe it is being fostered by people who have hidden political and even criminal agendas: the gangs seem to love to be incomprehensible to "the straights."

For the rest, learning English is usually high on their agenda anyway. Most of it has to do with not letting your pride get in the way of your learning: someone tells you how to pronounce something properly, say, "Yes, thank you," and pronounce it the way they just did. Two or three times. You are memorizing it.

Education more generally is also terribly important, but it will not go well until you learn English to the point where you are not handicapped in an all-English speaking classroom. So most people who come here from elsewhere know that they must knuckle down and study. American Blacks also seem to be getting that point. Being citizens, however, they have another option: they can enlist in the military, and let them pay for their education.

Good luck with your essay. I am fascinated by the process of immigration: see my avatar? I take that kind of thing seriously as being one of the major ways we get new Americans. Notice how old our population is growing, Baby Boomers becoming senior citizens. This country needs fresh blood, fresh ideas, fresh energy. We get some in our children, and some in our immigrants.

Answer 2

The thing that will make YOUR essay stand out (I assume that everyone in your class has the same topic), is the one ethnic community that EVERYONE seems to forget. Caucasians. That's right. I said it!. Why not. Don't do an essay that is as boring and lame like all essays are, such as abortion, blacks, and gays. Get to the point and talk about the "lost ethnic" group and how they "progressed in the USA" from savage slave owners to a free country.

Answer 3

Just look at how diversified the Bush administration is. You don't see that type of diversity in other countries. You never saw it in a Demorat administration.

Answer 4

Meow.... compare the Civil Rights movement to the Immgration movement of today.....

Answer 5

you forgot causcasion!~ this is also one of the main ethnicities!~ the three main derivative ethnicities are Mongoloid-*******- and caucasoid~! an incomplete report is a bad report!

Answer 6

see Oprah

Answer 7

The white man should stop putting down the miniriteis and contine with illegal immigration!