Cultural Assimilation Is Bad for Your Health- California’s Latinas, the women most likely to be poor and lack health Insurance, have an infant mortality 10% lower than Anglo women and 50% lower than African American women. A country's infant mortality rate as long been considered a primary indicator of its level of progress, or lack thereof. While there is no doubt that poverty and inadequate health care take their toll on the quality of a community's health, the extraordinarily low infant mortality rates of Latinas shed light on a long-overlooked determinant of human well-being: culture. To be sure, the two groups have weaknesses in their health profiles. Latinos, for instance, die disproportionately cirrhosis and diabetes. Asians have higher rate of tuberculosis than any other group in California.
Overall, however the two are the only groups in the States who have met the major population health goals set for the year 2000 by the state Department of Health Services. David E. Erdogan says assimilation is a crime against humanity. ActNow - Multiculturalism. What is it? Multiculturalism is a cultural and political policy established by the Australian government to show citizens how they should live together. The term multiculturalism means ‘numerous cultures’. It was put into place to promote a way of thinking that embraces and accepts Australians who have come from different countries or who identify with a culture that is different from Anglo–Australian culture. This includes respecting peoples’ choices and practices regarding their religion and their social beliefs. It means that all cultures are respected and nobody is more important than anyone else. Multiculturalism as a political policy also emphasises that while Australians accept and recognise cultural diversity, all citizens identify one ‘common law’ and democratic government as their own.
The multiculturalism policy can be seen through the following core principles: Equality—this means all citizens are given equal rights, no matter what race or religion they are. Who does it affect? Myth of the Melting Pot: America's Racial and Ethnic Divides. Elle Magazine: Apologize for Trying to 'Whiten' Indian Skin - Sign the Petition. I write along to you, the publishers of Elle India, with thousands of other readers to express my concern as an Elle reader over the depiction of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, one of the most beautiful women in the world, as more light-skinned than she is in real life. Consumers have long been inundated with ads that use prominent Bollywood actors to promote skin-lightening products. In a country that... Consumers have long been inundated with ads that use prominent Bollywood actors to promote skin-lightening products.
In a country that produces gorgeous women of color, it is sad that Ms. Ms. Most importantly, I ask that Elle issue a public apology to Ms. I look forward to your response. Sincerely, [Your name] Melting pot. Origins of the term[edit] The first use in American literature of the concept of immigrants "melting" into the receiving culture are found in the writings of J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. In his Letters from an American Farmer (1782) Crevecoeur writes, in response to his own question, "What then is the American, this new man? " that the American is one who "leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the government he obeys, and the new rank he holds.
A magazine article in 1875 used the metaphor explicitly: "The fusing process goes on as in a blast-furnace; one generation, a single year even-- transforms the English, the German, the Irish emigrant into an American. In 1893, historian Frederick Jackson Turner also used the metaphor of immigrants melting into one American culture. Israel Zangwill[edit] United States[edit] Whiteness and the melting pot in the United States[edit] Native Americans[edit] Hawaii[edit] Cultural Integration: What we should learn from France’s ban on the veil.