Social Issues Essays

The ability to connect with individuals and environments demonstrates our sense of belonging. Physical settings represent our abstract understanding of belonging, while interpersonal relationships offer vital social support and help for human survival. In his autobiographical book, Romulus, My Father, Raimond Gaita explores these ideas by examining the profound influence that proximity to people and […]

Rohinton Mistry is a Parsi Zoroastrian and as a person whose ancestors were forced into exile by the Islamic conquest of Iran, he was in Diaspora even in India. Like other Parsi writers, his writing is informed by this experience of double displacement as a recurrent theme in his literary works. Rohinton’s historical situation involves […]

The United States has defined itself in part as a “Nation Welcoming to Immigrants,” and many would agree to this. I myself do not agree with this said title/statement, for reasons that I will define. My statement to start is that, the United States is seemingly a country that welcomes immigrants, but in fact that […]

As children grow up, they become the person they turn out to be because of experiences and the culture and society they grew up in. Nations are affected in the same sense because the people living in a nation affect how the nation is influenced and builds its character. Discrimination has been around for too […]

The Right passengers is a short story by the American writer Waqar Ahmed, which was published in 2008. The story tells us about a night in Nadeem Riaz’ life. Nadeem Riaz is a taxi driver in New York City. Nadeem is driving around Manhattan looking for passengers then he eventually picks up a couple, a […]

Introduction The issue of brain drain in Malaysia has been a topic of discussion in recent years. In 2007, approximately 140,000 Malaysians left the country, and this number doubled to 305,000 between March 2008 and August 2009, according to a parliamentary report. Talented Malaysians chose to leave for reasons such as increasing crime rates, a […]

If you had to leave America, move to another country you know very little about, and do not know the language, the culture, or anything about the land, how would you feel? Would you have expectations for the natives? In the book Of Beetles & Angels a family from Ethiopia, moved to America and attempted […]

Grace Abbott is most known for her work in children’s welfare and immigrant welfare. Throughout her life the importance of general equality had always been enforced. With this, plus her knowledge of women’s suffering, she made it her life’s work to make the lives of women, children and immigrants better. She managed to make the […]

The Gilded Age was an age of vast transformation for the United States. This period was was an era of vast economic, social, and political growth for the United States. It brought a vast number of immigrants to our shores. This era showed the true meaning of the “American dream” and also the suffering it […]

Is the election of public servants truly in our personal best interest, or does it primarily serve the broader welfare of the country? Or perhaps these officials are more focused on preserving their popularity as a strategy to ensure re-election? The ongoing deadlock in our two-party system is clear. Any group attempting to introduce change […]

Sweden, similarly to the other Scandinavian countries, stands as one of the most egalitarian and democratic countries in the world in terms of social equality, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (2007), and devotes more than 30 percent of its GDP on social expenditure. This clearly has a positive impact on the integration of disadvantaged […]

The author of “In the Land of Free”, Edith Maud Eaton, with pen name Sui Sin Far, was not a direct immigrant from Asia to the United States, but she portrayed the harsh treatment Asian immigrants faced upon entering in the U. S. in the late 1800s. Sui Sin Far, working as a journalist for […]

Lisa See’s “On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family” is an engrossing tale detailing the struggles and victories her Chinese family encountered when they migrated to America’s west coast during the 19th and 20th centuries. She adeptly portrays her family’s journey, highlighting both similarities and differences with the standard experiences of Chinese […]

In the United States, explanatory theories of racial and ethnic relations have been concerned with migration, adaptation, exploitation, stratification, and conflict. Most such theories can be roughly classified as either order theories or power-conflict theories, depending on their principal concerns. Order theories tend to accent patterns of inclusion, of the orderly integration and assimilation of […]

Since the foundation time in the United States the protestant culture has dominated the country. Today several people say that the globalization and the immigrants has end with the Anglo-conformism. The globalization helps to access to new information about other cultures, learn other languages and to travel around the world easier than before. The globalization […]

Over the last few years there have been massive debates and arguments about whether or not there should be a limit on immigration to the U.K. Before you can make up your mind you should consider opinions on both sides of the argument. It is very difficult to make a choice that will keep both […]

Over the past 60 years the issue of immigration and the impact on the national identity has been a subject of great public interest. In this paper I will be examining the political and ideological controversies caused by immigration, if immigration has changed the national identity and if the mass media has fairly or unfairly […]

Foucault explica que el surgimiento del biopoder fue lo que inscribi al racismo como mecanismo de estado. El racismo fragmenta a una poblaci decide entre “lo que debe vivir y lo que debe morir” y establece que la muerte de aquel que debe morir conlleva consecuencias biolïpositivas para la poblaci en la que esa muerte […]

Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” Thesis “But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all” In her thesis she explains that even though people do discriminate against her, she does not feel […]

Out of this Furnace, by Thomas Bell, recounts the tale of a Slovakian immigrant family spanning five generations who came to America in the late 1800s seeking a brighter future. Djuro Kracha, one of the earliest arrivals, made his way to the New World in the 1880s. The book commences with the portrayal of his […]

The “Other”; in The Tortilla Curtain Since its very beginnings, the United States of America has been idealized as ‘the land of the free,’ full of new opportunities for people from all around the globe. In The Tortilla Curtain, written by T. Coraghessan Boyle the reader gets an up close view of the border between […]

In the United States, English is a very popular language; it is an official language to 27 States and 51 Nations. To be successful in school, new immigrants ought to learn English. Again, those who are interested in the political arena must be well conversant with English. This will assist them in articulating their policies […]