ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
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Don’t click on email links or attachments it’s a tune most every Windows user has heard repeatedly: If an email link looks fishy, most likely it is, don’t click it. Antivirus software will trigger a warning sign if a link appears to be dangerous to a computer system. Sometimes a “distracted, trustful of friends or colleagues they know, or simply fooled by a crafty email message, many users forget to be wary of links and attachments included within email messages, regardless of the source. Simply clicking on an email link or attachment can, within minutes, corrupt Windows, infect other machines, and destroy critical data. Users should never click on email attachments without at least first scanning them for viruses using a business-class anti-malware application.
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As for clicking on links, users should access Web sites by opening a browser and manually navigating to the sites in question.” (Eckel, 2009) The quote that says “protection is better than cure” makes perfect sense even in the computer work. The only way to protect a computer is by playing it safe. Invest a little after a purchase of a PC by buying a powerful antivirus protection to protect the PC from intruders. It is also very important to be very watchful of the type of programs you download or upload into the system. One of the advantages of having that extra protection for a PC is the auto scan option that’s offered by the antivirus program. The software will automatically scan all the files or virus that might cause a negative impact on the computer.
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This paper will discuss about the concept of ethnic identity as interactional identity by looking at the instrumentalists approach. In order to make sure that this paper is well – discussed, organized and easy to be understood, it will be divided into three section; introduction, core assumptions and arguments before we can sonclude the discussion. In the introduction section, we will examine the definition of ethnic identity and interactional identity. The definition will be divided by two; literal and conceptual.
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Nakamura (2012) imply that ethnic group is a group of people who believe that they share the same ancestry, history, cultural traits such as language and religion which are distinct from other groups. Meanwhile, in the other hand, ethnic identity as suggested by Phinney (1996), it is the extent to which one identifies with a particular ethnic group (s), refers to one’s sense of belonging to certain ethnic group and the part of one’s thinking, perceptions, feelings, and behavior that is due to ethnic group membership. The ethnic group tends to be one in which
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the individual claims heritage. Thus, we can simply say that the terms ethnic, ethnic groups and ethnic identity are very different in meaning. However, the terms are rooted by one general idea of ethnic, they are separated by which is ethnic identity is more to how individual define their ethnicity and individual group is in a collective way since they believe that they share the value of ethnicity. Coming back to our core assumptions, the ethnic identity is an interactional identity. Again, to really understand the term, we need to define the term interactional.
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According to MacMillan web dictionary, there are two definition of interaction; it is the activity of being with and talking to other people and the way of people react to each other, secondly, it is the process by which different thing affect each other. So, based on the definition, we can say that interactional means the way on how people connect and interact to each other. Nakamura (2012) imply that ethnicity is not something that fixed because it’s situationally defined. Ethnic groups are created through particular interactional, historical, economical and political circumstances.
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The important things is a process of determining ‘us’ vs ‘them’. The process will only shows the result when there are interaction occurred. In an easy word, people would not simply think about their ethnic identity when they are alone. The analogy is simple, A is a Malay – Pakistani descendant in Malaysia. When A with his Chinese and Indian friend, A will say that he is Malay. However, when he show up with his Malay friend, he started to think that he is Pakistani since his grandfather is Pakistanian. This situation is really suits to explain by looking at the instrumentalist approach.
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Instrumentalists seeing ethnicity as socially constructed, it is not given, the other central idea also, they seeing ethnicity as malleable. Hence, by these two central ideas, we believe that social structure can really affected in interactional identity, people want to be treated and expected by others that can give benefits to them. Nagata (1974) says that, in Malaysia, the Arab migrant consider themselves as Malay in front of Chinese and back to their Arab origin when they are with Malay.
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Why do you think so? It is because they can get the privilleges and benefits as Malay owned by the government as Malay are Bumiputera which constitutionally received a lot of privelleges than other ethnics in Malaysia. However, when there are bad perspective implied on Malay, then simply switch back as Arab. It is because they do not want appear as a person that will be put on bad perspective toward them. For instance, Malay to others is the ethnic that lazy, no initiative to enhance their social economic condition and poor. By those negative perspective, they tend to switch back as Arab descendant.
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This is in line with Nakamura (2012), she say that Weber’s instrumental approach can be understood in relation to class and social strata. According to Donald Noel, a sociologist who developed a theory on the origin of ethnic stratification, ethnic stratification is a “system of stratification where some relatively fixed group membership for example race, religion, or nationality, is utilized as a major criteria for assigning social position” (Wikipedia, 2011). The statement by Noel prove that the process on the interactional identity work inside the ethnic identity.
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In a nutshell, we can conclude that ethnic identity is an interactional identity when people are start to interact and contact each other. It is normal because people want to be treated by others the best others can give. It is also occur because people want to set up a boundary between people just to differentiate them and it will makes them feel secure and belonging. In line with english proverb, ‘to feel special, we need to be a part of something special’ really suits the condition of the interactional identity. BIBLIOGRAPHY Barth, F. (1995). Ethnic groups and boundaries.
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It is easy to see oneself as the same person we were ten, twenty, or fifty years ago. We can define identity through our physical presence, life experiences, memories, and mental awareness of self. One can testify our persistence as a person through our existence as a person. But what makes us the same person? In this paper, I will argue for the “simple” view of the persistence of identity – that it is impossible to determine what single thing that makes us the same person over time.
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For example, this theory states that a five-year-old will be the same person when they are a 25-year-old, because their mental state in later years is descendent from their earlier years. Counter argument By its very nature, the idea of psychological continuity is flawed. It is not uncommon for an individual’s mental state to be changed so drastically that they could not truly be considered the same person. Several examples have been made by Waller: sufferers of cognitive impairments such as dementia, people who have gone through stressful or traumatic situations, and war eterans that are affected by post-traumatic stress disorder (Waller, 2011, p 198-210).
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Put simply, a person is said to persist if they exist in the same physical body over time. In this case, the previously mentioned dementia or PTSD sufferers would be considered the same people, as their physical body has continued. The theory suggests a “brute physical relation” between body and identity (Korfmacher, 2006). Without regard for mental state, an individual is considered to have a persistent personal identity as long as their body survives. Counter argument This theory lends itself easily to thought experiments, and they quickly expose some problems.
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If individual A receives an organ donation from individual B, can it be said that individual A has taken some of B’s identity? Surely not. It would be absurd to suggest that having the kidney or liver of another person would affect one’s persistence as an individual. Similarly, if individual C had their body cloned, it would not make their clone the same person. There is much more to personal identity than can be defined by something so comparatively insignificant as the physical body. Complex argument 3 – Persistence of the brain
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The brain is the functional centre of the human body; the place where memories are stored, feelings are felt, and environmental signals are processed. It is unsurprising, therefore, that the brain is so often considered to be the “home” of personal identity. This theory is a staple of many science fiction texts – as a convention, the cognizant “brain in a jar” or brain transplant recipient is fairly common. Proponents of this “we are our brains” theory claim that, so long as the brain persists, so does the person. Counter argument
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This theory seems to refer to consciousness rather than the physicality of the brain, so it is important to make a clarification between the two. Julian Baggini suggests that we should view the relationship between consciousness and identity similarly to the relationship between a musical score and the paper it is written on (Baggini, 2005, pp. 112-114). In other words, the brain is simply a storage space for our memories, thoughts, and self-awareness. Should it not, therefore, be so that an individual could simply persist as a brain in a jar, provided they could be sustained in that state?
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Conclusion To call the simple view of the persistence of personal identity “simple” is almost deceptive; deep consideration on the subject quickly turns towards the complex. It is easy to grasp at the categories of body, brain, and mental state, but it would be wrong to say that the persistence of any of those equates to the persistence of an individual. Personal identity is something so much harder to define, and it is harder still to find definitive measures of its continuation. Personal identity is evasive, and fleeting; it is intangible, ever-changing. Its persistence is so much more than can be determined.
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The wrong interpretation of race has actually caused racism and bias issues, which have actually been passed from generation to generation. In America, where there is a big variety, more people are guilty of “classifying” others by utilizing race and stereotypes. The incorrect “sorting” of people has ended up being more obvious on T. V, day-to-day life, and current political and public views. In this text, I will check out some of the ways in which popular culture adds to the hazardous pattern of perpetuating and promoting unjust classifications through the use of stereotypes.
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Today, we recognize individuals in such a way that people’s feelings are affected. Media has an enormous effect on this because that is how individuals keep up-to-date with pop culture. Also agreeing with my perspective is Omi, who mentions that “Popular culture has been an essential realm within which racial ideologies [that] provide a framework of symbols, principles, and images through which we understand, analyze, and represent aspects of our “racial existence” (Pg.
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The classification of people into groups is so grave that global issues have occurred and are likely to keep occurring. For example, consider slavery; Europeans made a hierarchy of races putting African Americans at the bottom of the list. If we recall, African Americans became slaves in the United States and were treated with cruelty because they were seen as the lowest class that had no rights. Since a large portion of Americans viewed African American as the lowest class, the belief has remained throughout generations, therefore; many Americans still classify African Americans as the lowest class.
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Many times advertisement is a way in which specific groups are targeted and this can be offensive to the group because the commercials, ads, or posters present stereotypes instead. Propaganda and advertisement are meant to appeal to the attention of certain groups, but when the groups are racially targeted, it is a problem that we should strive to resolve to better our communities. Other situations where stereotypes are observable are when we watch Television. For example, when a Hispanic family is presented along with violence and maltreatment, the stereotype of “macho” and violent men is spread throughout society.
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As a result of such events portrayed by the media, we form perceptions about people or groups, and in our minds generalize the situations by applying it to a whole race. Stereotypes are not limited to advertisements and music but are also seen on daily life situations as well. For example, I have noticed the changing attitudes about racial identities in my community some of these changing attitudes are reflected by the way certain members of the community are classifying others based on racial or ethnic membership.
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According to the CNN Wire Staff, the city of San Bernardino in California went into bankruptcy in the year of 2012 (“San Bernardino Files for Bankruptcy” 1). As a result, different ethnic groups were blaming racial groups for this situation. A couple of days later, I heard an Anglo-Saxon American leader of a business association blaming African Americans and Hispanics for the bankruptcy. He blamed African Americans communities for wasting money and having countless babies that took a lot of money to maintain.
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Moreover, he said that there were too many Hispanics taking away jobs and making San Bernardino look bad by having so many illegals living in it. As we can notice there is tension between racial groups and consequently, we are all affected. In daily life situations divisions like these occur because of stereotypes and intolerance that overwhelm our community. Another situation that reflects stereotypes in daily life includes checkpoint locations by the police. In suburban areas where the majority of the population is white, checkpoints are rare to nonexistent because those communities are made up of “the best” race: the Caucasian.
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In urban areas where minorities inhabit, checkpoints are much more often seen because the locations are meant to target to specific races. For example, Hispanics that often don’t have their driving licenses or legal papers or African American that have pending tickets to pay because they can’t afford to pay them off. Omi agrees when he says, “Dramatic instances of racial tension and violence merely constitute the surface manifestations of a deeper racial organization of American Society – a system of inequality” (Pg. 625). As Omi states, there is “inequality” and “racial segregation” (Pg.
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626) as can be noted in the fact that people are classified by race and not by their nationality. Race is not a way to identify people because not everyone is the same within the race even though we have similar looks. Our bad habit of identifying by race will keep creating problems especially now that there is an increase of mixed races. Popular culture has made its debut in current political and public views. As some of us have experienced, living in a racially divided America creates discomfort not only for foreigners, but also for native-born Americans as well.
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Today we see people being categorized into a racial group which closes doors for people even if they belong to a traditional American family. The Caucasian race is known to have the highest rate of people who have a college degree, but some doors are closed on them because they have appearance that resemble to those of minority races. For example, many people in these types of situations encounter different challenges, like not finding jobs in the United States because sometimes they are mistakenly distinguished as a race they don’t belong to.
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Although America is supposed to represent equality, discrimination in employment, schooling, and housing is present. Identification by race is incorrect because it negatively affects society to the point that it can lead to severe cases of discrimination, causing the violation of civil rights. By looking at other “races” as less than others, we are discriminating against people, and it is something that we notice some people do today. For example, people think that every black person is the same and consequently assume that all African Americans are delinquents.
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Many African Americans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Jamaicans and members of other nationalities that are of black descent, face discrimination today when in restaurants, renting apartments, buying a car, and many other services. I am a witness of this because I have been living in apartments since I came to the United States. Where I currently live, we have a Hispanic manager that admits she doesn’t like to rent apartments to black people because they are troublemakers. This is denying African Americans the right to live there, which is known as racial discrimination.
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Discrimination by race is becoming something that more people are struggling today with because in our popular culture, it is becoming acceptable to divide people and groups by their racial identity. In the speech, A More Perfect Union, Obama said, “I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time, unless we solve them together, unless we perfect our union” (Pg. 1). I believe solving our challenges would require getting rid of the racial classifications because that way there wouldn’t be divisions based solely on skin color.
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In other words, we would become united and represent one nation, not one race. Working together we would reach our goals, or if we don’t have goals, at least we could help others attain them. There would be a better representation of the American culture, the American people, and of ourselves even if we don’t belong to this nation. We come to this nation because this is where we want to accomplish what we aim for, but the path becomes narrower because of the difficulties popular culture presents.
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If we were united, there would only be one direction, no races that want to stay away from each other, and we could all move forward together without taking race into consideration. To conclude, to get rid of racial identification and to achieve union in our society, we must limit the use of stereotypes, prejudices, and racial categories that are presented by popular culture. Instances of racial categorization have become more common on T. V, daily life, political and public views because our popular culture has gradually accepted racial identification.
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Calling or identifying others by stereotypes should be something illegal because it not only affects our emotions, but also the development of our self-identity. It is true that we have the freedom of speech but there are certain limits when it is using discriminative words because we cannot interfere with others’ pursuit of happiness. By sorting individuals by stereotypes we are putting their race down; this sometimes causes a sentiment of ethnocentrism, a belief that the race we belong in is superior to the rest, in our communities which can cause even more divisions and tensions.
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If we stop using race as part of our identity on papers as they did on the census, we could make a change because individuals would probably see themselves as what they really are, and not an assumption of what they are being forced to consider themselves as. In addition, a lot of job applications, government papers, and other documents have race as a way for applicants to describe their identity. That is something that we should stop using in papers and instead only include our real identity, which are nationality, ethnicity, hair color, eye color etc. , but not including skin color.
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When we use skin color as our identity, I have noticed that people criticize by the way we look and not the true individual with traditions, beliefs, and morals. Works Cited CNN, Wire Staff. “San Bernardino Files for Bankruptcy. ” CNN. Cable News Network, 2 Aug. 2012. Web. 19 Apr. 2013. . Omi, Michael. “In Living Color: Race and American Culture. ” Signs of Life in the U. S. A: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers. By Sonia Maasik and J. Fisher Solomon. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 2012. N. 626. Print. Obama, Barack. “A More Perfect Union. ” Huffingtonpost. com. TheHuffingtonPost. com, Inc. , 25 May 2011. Web. 29 Apr. 2013. .
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The last story is about Danny, in the end revealed to be Jin Wang, struggles with his embarrassing stereotypical cousin, Chin-Kee, that forces him to switch school because of the embarrassment. Towards the end of the book, Yang joins the three stories together. We find that Danny is Jin and Chin-Kee is the Monkey King. At this point, the Monkey king wanted Jin to realizes that being himself is the only way to find his true identity. He told Jin, “You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years’ imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey. (Yang 222-223)
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The convergence of the three stories relate to Asian American students because they constantly face the same problems as Jin. They want to hide their identity and want to become someone that they are not. They want to fit-in by trying to be someone that they are not. Just like Jin, they would want to be someone like Danny, buy they are constantly haunted by their Asian Background to show that they don’t fit-in. Yang wanted to demonstrate this issue in his book by joining the three stories so his audience can relate to their own negative experience of finding identity and acceptance.
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Jin Wang’s negative experience story is also another way Yang used to connect his audience to the book. Jin constantly struggles with his Chinese background and the American Culture. He desperately wants to fit in with the American students in the school, but he is constantly reminded about the Chinese stereotypes that are keeping him form fitting-in. “My momma says Chinese people eat dogs. “Now be nice, Timmy! ” -I’m sure Jin doesn’t do that! In fact, Jin’s family probably stopped that sort of thing as soon as they came to the United States! (Yang 30-31) Jin tries his best to fit-in with the other students, but everything he tries backfires because he is constantly criticized. He changes his hairstyle, dates an American girl, and tries to act “American. ”
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They are also constantly stereotyped; such as, Chinese people eat dogs. This causes Asian American students to feel insecure and embarrassed when they are reminded of their background. Therefore, the American students do not socially accept them. Yang used Jin’s story to emotionally connect with Asian American students because it shows the negative impression of Asian background. This emotional connection allowed his audience to see Yang’s perspective of negative experience to finding identity and acceptance. Yang also connects his audience with negative Asian American Stereotype.
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In his book, one of the most noticing stereotypes that are presented in this graphic novel is Danny’s cousin Chin-Kee. Chin-Kee is described to have a strong Asian accent, bucktooth, and have “chinky” eyes. He is also eats weird food, answers every question correctly, and knows Kung Fu. This stereotype connects with Asian American students because they are also labeled as these stereotypes. With these stereotypes it made it difficult for Asian American students to find identity and acceptance because they are constantly trying to avoid these stereotypes.
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The commendation of Asian Americans as a model minority implicitly denigrates other racial groups. Thus, Asian Americans might be more susceptible to racial harassment, discrimination, and hate crime than other ethnic groups. ”(Perception of Asian American Students: Stereotypes and Effects) Yang wanted to show these stereotypes to connect to his audience because seeing these stereotypes in a book keeps the audience emotionally involved in the story because his audiences are also facing the same racial issues in school.
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This keeps the audience connected and interested in this book. Yang also wanted to show his audiences that accepting these stereotypes, like Jin, will help them find their identity and acceptance in the American society. Gene Yang wanted to show his audience that accepting yourself is the only way to find identity and acceptance. He used many examples from his text, American Born Chinese that exemplifies the struggle to find identity and acceptance. He strategically converges three different stories that show Jin’s realization of accepting his Chinese background and culture.
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Social identity theory is designed by Tajfel and Turner (1979) to explain how it is that people develop a sense of membership and belonging in specific groups, and how the mechanics of intergroup discrimination. Several interconnected mechanisms are at work with social identity theory. The core concept is that individuals tend to look for out-group membership as an affirmation of self-esteem, however that subscription in a group alone is inadequate to construct self-esteem. To feel more self-confidence, people need to believe that they remain in the right group, which produces the requirement for a favorable distinction from other groups.
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The individuals would favour people in their group rather than the individuals of the other group. In most cases the participants would sacrifice points for their group simply to increase the distinction between the groups. The participants would provide 7 points to their own group and give the other group 1, although they could have given 13 to each group. This shows that you can be quickly be put in a group for a minor thing and you would stick and go versus the other group and see them as the opponent without having any genuine factor.
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Caroline Howarth brought out the 2nd research. The individuals all lived in the Brixton location, which was seen as a poor and violent place and likewise where a great deal of black people were believed to have lived there and were considered being the main reason for violence. Within the very first set of focus groups (overall of 7), she asked teens to speak about Brixton, she inquired to ‘inform me about Brixton– what it is like for you to live here and how individuals outside Brixton think about Brixton’. Howarth utilized a topic guideline to ensure that main research concerns were always covered (on community, addition, exclusion, identity, ethnicity, the media, prejudice, bigotry, the school).
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The organisation of focus groups into friendship groups made it possible for participants to discuss these experiences with admirable confidence, maturity and understanding. It can, nonetheless, be difficult for the social researcher to access such sensitive material. When the moderator is an outsider and when research participants assume (often correctly) that the researcher has little experience of the kind of discrimination and challenges to self-esteem that pervade their lives, mistrust and suspicion may harm the research relationship. The girls answered positively and were happy to be from Brixton and did not want to move away and did not see any problems. This would shock people, as they would have thought people would move away if they had the chance. They are creating a social identity, as they are happy to be a part of the Brixton identity.
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There are some problems with this study as there are some ethical issues, they were deceived as they were lied to in the Tajfel study as they were just randomly picked and had nothing to do with their views on the paintings. Whereas the Howarth study they were not deceived which is a good way to carry out a study but they might have lied with their answers to please the examiner and have changed their behavior to be positive and not how that even the people who live there think the same as everyone else.
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Both of these studies are valid as the research supports the theory and the results can be applied to everyday life. The Tajfel study shows how people at school in the playground group and pick the group they have the most in common with and communicate with them and if they do not seem to have anything in common they would not stay there. The second study by Howarth can also be applied in everyday life as people create social identity all the time, if a place is thought of negatively by people who do not live their then the people who do can make a social identity and be happy and have positive thoughts about this area and not agree with the others.
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All Malaysians must bear responsibility to help achieve stronger integration and a more robust national unity.Malaysians must do this by preserving and protecting its many divers religions festivals and customs.Preserving and protecting this is part and parcel of our shared broader goals of achieving integration and national unity.In attaining these goals,all Malaysians must bear a collective responsibility.The effective way in enhancing racial integration is to hold open house on festive season,carry out gotong royong and to hold a cultural fair.
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As we know,open house are the feast or celebration that usually occurred during festive season.In Malaysia,there has many festive season such as Chinese New Year,Deepavali,Hari Raya Aidilfitri,Wesak Day and others.When open house had been organized and arranged,all of the races attend the celebration without doubt,anger, and anti-racial.Residents dined together in a spirit of neighbourliness.They will be closer the relationship of each other and they will know and become familiar with their neighbour,so it will enhance racial integration.
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Besides that,gotong royong is one of the effective ways in enhancing racial integration.Gotong royong are activity that hold together all races such as cleaning housing area,cooking during the feast.This will show the spirit of unity when tehey carry out gotong royong together.The food has been cooked by many races base on their own way.This will allow the guast to taste many kind of food.Gotong royong could gather all residents so they will join and communicate.
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On the other hand,to enhance racial integration we have to hold a cultural fair.The cultural fair could be organized to show cultural and trust of all races.As an examples,the cultural fair could be done in the open place such as Stadium Bukit Jalil so all citizens can watch the performance like cultural dance or cross-cultural performance in which Malay,Indian and Chinese dances were performed by childrens.This are able to see various cultural sensitivity and it is praiseworthy because all other races and culture are respected.The organized celebration of festive,we can know and understand other cultural and trust.Therefore,we can promote peace and unity in a multiracial country by holding a cultural fair.
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Migrant Hostel is an important poem when expressing belonging and not belonging as both sides of the concepts of belonging are shown through connections with character groups as well as places. It explores the barriers that prevent belonging through a variety of techniques that allow readers to fully understand the types of barriers that can prevent belonging. Stanza 1 and 4 show that characters may encounter barriers which prevent belonging. In stanza 4, the hostel is a barrier that holds the migrants back and prevents them from belonging.
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Stanza 1 shows that change can lead to a sense of not belonging. It creates ideas of uncertainty through the use of the words ‘arrivals’, ‘sudden’, and ‘left us wondering’. The changes that happen at the hostel only emphasise the lack of control that the migrants have their, and thus forcing them to feel that their life is not theirs to live. This leads to a feeling of not belonging. The 1st stanza has a negative atmosphere and shows the migrants to be uneasy.
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Within the migrant hostel, the migrants seek out people of their own nationalities, as it is human nature to want to be with people that are similar to themselves. This is shown through the quote, ‘Nationalities sought each other out instinctively’. The plural ‘nationalities’ in the first line of the stanza show that there are many people within the hostel, however they have no connection. The simile ‘like a homing pigeon’ represents the human desire to seek out similarities in other people to feel accepted by others. A feeling of unification can lead to a sense of belonging.
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Shared experiences can also allow individuals to understand one another, leading to acceptance and therefore belonging. The migrant hostel inhabitants share the experiences of war, shown through the last lines of the stanza ‘Partitioned off at night by memories of hunger and hate’. This discomfort is what allows them to understand one another and form relationships, which leads to belonging. The concept of belonging is conveyed through places. Migrant Hostel shows the concept of belonging in places by showing that a place can unite people.
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The recurring use of the word ‘we’ in stanza 3 and 4 show that the experiences that the migrants have had in the hostel have united them. The hostel, while it is a barrier, it also allows them to come together. The line ‘we lived like birds of passage’ shows the shared lifestyle of the migrants through the use of a simile, as well as the imagery of birds. It represents how they long to have freedom, which is a feeling that all migrants would experience. The lifestyle that the hostel creates for them is compared to the weather in stanza 3. The life at the hostel is a cycle of passage, just as the weather has cycles.
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The line ‘Needing its sanction to pass in and out of lives’ shows that the migrants are looking for the ‘approval’ of the hostel in order to continue with their lives. From gaining the ‘approval’ of the hostel, the migrants are able to feel that they belong. Migrant Hostel explores the different aspects of belonging and not belonging through the experiences of people who are unwanted and trapped by physical and mental barriers. they are able to feel accepted due to similarities in experience and nationalities, however are prevented from moving on with their lives due to the human wish to feel accepted and that they belong.
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In his essay “I’m a Banana and Proud of It” (from The Globe and Mail); Wayson Choy explains the reason why he is called a “banana”. Choy begins by expressing his love to his North American citizenship. He mentions that banana means “yellow on the outside and white inside” (365). In other words, Chinese born in North America behave and act like white people but still look like Asians. Regardless of this nickname Choy believe that it is “not a racist term”9366).
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Furthermore, youth of Chinatown are criticized for their lack of knowledge and understanding of “Old China traditions” (367). Choy also points out how brainwashed they are by the North American lifestyle. Although it is true that he is a banana, Choy realized that he does not belong in either world. Therefore, he tries to find the foundation of his Chinese roots. And his search for his identity led him to write “The Jade Peony”, which emphasizes his “struggle between being Chinese and being North American” (637) and discovers that it is a universal feeling. As a result, Choy finds out that people are the same wherever they come from, they are all driven by same principles which is “security and happiness”(367). And finally, Choy fully accepted being a “banana” and is proud of being Chinese.
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The definition of identity, to me, is who you are- not who you want to be. It consists of the mental, physical and emotional characteristics that set one person apart from the rest of the crowd and define who a character really is. John Green and David Levithan’s Will Grayson, Will Grayson focuses on identity as a theme, illustrating coming of age, searching for who you are, who you need in your life, and also on sexual identity and orientation, which many young adult writers today consider too edgy or sensitive a topic.
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson details the lives of two very externally different high school students, both coincidentally named Will Grayson, whose lives become linked through unlikely circumstances. Both Wills mentally have their similarities regarding identity: what they see as their purpose in life, how they want to be viewed by others, and how they want to deal with their emotions. The first Will Grayson tries his best to keep to himself(much in contrast to his flamboyant best friend Tiny Cooper) as he believes it will prevent him from creating too much conflict in his life, living unexamined and routine.
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The second Will Grayson however seems to think he has a solid, if not stubborn, grasp on who he is. After struggling with depression for years he has given up fighting it and decides to try to coexist peacefully with it in his life and has accepted his fate as being unhappy forever. Will however is facing a serious identity crisis; he is unable to come to terms with his own homosexuality. Though he has a boyfriend and he is acutely aware of the fact that he is attracted to other men, he can barely admit it to himself.
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He does everything in his power to appear straight and hide anything that could possibly hint towards him being gay. He hides himself both physically and emotionally from the outside world behind a computer screen and avoids talking to anyone other than his boyfriend, Isaac, at all costs. The turning points in Will’s life are when he discovers Isaac is a fake identity created by his friend Maura to coax him into coming out to her as gay; and when Will meets Tiny Cooper and our first Will in Chicago, where the worlds of our two Will Graysons collide.
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You learn different things from every person you meet. Your friends are someone who you are with most of the time, so you would pick up many things from them. You gather the traits from those around you and your mind will tell you which are good and bad. Mean Girls is a perfect example of how friends shape you. Cady changes herself to fit in with her new posh friends, her friends shaped her as a mean girl, but it wasn’t long till she found who her real friends were and what her identity was. Your identity is shaped by your real friends, who you hang out with the most.
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Our other relationships that shape our identity would be our teachers. They teach us what is good and bad and they educate us and help us. Our employers are another source that shapes our identity; they shape out who we are and what our profession is. Our society and neighbours also shape our identity. In the novel “Growing up Asian in Australia”, Tom Cho wrote a short story called “Learning English”. He had to learn English to mingle with this neighbours and the society he lived in. When he first arrived in Australia, he didn’t know English, so he found it difficult to communicate with everyone. He learned English for the society, so the society shaped him.
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How much white collar crime actually exists in the society is determined by the organizational resources available to uncover, investigate, and prosecute it, and more generally, enforce what most experts already regard as inadequate laws aimed at its control. Increase rates of white-collar crime produced social costs that is rooted from individual professional employees which is later on promulgated to the rest of the organization and the society as a whole (Rosoff, Pontell, & Tillman 136-137). Social costs can be classified on either monetary or non-monetary level.
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Identity theft causes victims to be ridiculed by other people because they are misjudged for having criminal records and huge bank credit statements which they did not purchased. Thefts on the other hand commits something that violates not only the law but trust from other people as well. White collar crime damages social relationship. It loosens the morale of people and leads to ample disorganization (Salinger 190). A common white collar crime is tax evasion, which has a very specific effect: taxes are hiked for the poor, to cover for the costs that companies won’t cover.
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Increased economic hardship for the average citizen and consumer (Rosoff, Pontell, & Tillman 136-137). Crime increases the cost of doing business, and any such increase in business costs is ultimately passed on to the consumer through increased prices and decreased services. Social workers party are also formed as a sign of rebellion to unjust regulations within the company which results to more complex development in businesses (Rosoff, Pontell, & Tillman 252). Deliberately inadequate services and deficient products incur costs.
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Injury, illness, disability, and death with their attendant psychological suffering are all too common by-products of certain types of white collar crime. This service quality greatly affects the work efficiency of people since manpower is decreasing and may lead to worker’s death (Rosoff, Pontell, & Tillman 136-137). Totality of white collar crime results various social costs. Because workers are underpaid, has no/low insurance and are underprivileged, it has a domino effect that is passed on to other people until it consumes the whole society.
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The physicist Richard Feynman called it “among the most impressive, practically astonishing, formulas in all of mathematics.” This is since these three basic arithmetic operations take place precisely when each: addition, multiplication, and exponentiation. The identity also links five fundamental mathematical constants: the number 0, the number 1, the number π, the number e and the number i. But the question stays: how does plugging in pi for x give us -1?
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The number e, sometimes referred to as the “Euler’s number”, is a significantly important mathematical constant. Approximately, it is equal to 2.7182 when rounded, while the exact number extends to more than a trillion digits of accuracy! That is because e is an irrational number since it cannot be written as a simple fraction. The number e is the base of the natural logarithm. The logarithm of a number is the exponent by which another value (the base), must be raised to produce that number. For example, the logarithm of 1000 to base 10 is 3, because 10 to the power 3 is 1000. The natural logarithm is the logarithm to the base e. The natural logarithm of a number x is the power to which e would have to be raised to equal x. The imaginary exponent:
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As we know, i= -1 or i2 = -1. The imaginary number helps in finding the square roots of many negative numbers, which is impossible to do otherwise. But Leonard Euler created the idea of the imaginary exponent, as shown in his Euler’s formula. He introduced a completely new concept. How the imaginary number works in this formula, will be later explained in my report. Sine and cosine functions are two of the prominent trigonometric functions, which you are already familiar with.
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Now that I have explained the math that makes up the Euler’s formula and given you a little background knowledge on it, I will now get down to the main question that I want to discuss: Why does the Euler’s formula work and why does eiπ equal to -1? My extensive research on this soon led me to an appropriate explanation: Euler’s formula describes two equivalent ways to move in a circle. Think of Euler’s formula as two formulas equal to each other; eix and cos(x)+isin(x) both of which explain how to move in a circle. Explanation of cosπ+isinπ= -1:
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The analogy “complex numbers are 2-dimensional” helps us interpret a single complex number as a position on a circle. Let’s connect that to our Euler’s formula. If we associate the x- and y-axes with the real and imaginary part of the equation like before, that means that the real x-coordinate is the cosine of the angle x, and the imaginary y-coordinate is the sine of the angle x multiplied by the imaginary number, as shown in the graph below. Note: The angle marked by x in the diagram below, is the same as “x” in Euler’s formula. Properly, we need to write the angle x in radians, not degrees: One circle (360°) = 2π radians
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Since a half circle (180°) is equal to π radians, that means that when pi is substituted for x into the Euler’s formula, we’re traveling “pi” radians along the outside of the circle. Also, when x = 0, cos(0)+isin(0) = 1. So from the beginning point of 1, we will move π radians which 180°, half-way around the circle, putting us at -1, which is exactly what the Euler formula states since it says that cos(x)+isin(x)= -1. And we have now shown that using the complex plane. So now we know that the right side of Euler’s formula (cos(x) + i*sin(x)) describes circular motion with imaginary numbers and the trigonometry function of sine and cosine. Now let’s figure out how the left side of the formula, which is eiπ, equals to -1. θ
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Instead of seeing the numbers on their own, you can think of -1 as something e had to “grow to” using exponentiation. Real numbers such as e, would have an fixed rate at which it would increase by, during exponentiation. In other words, interest rate is the rate at which the number e “collects” as it’s going along and increasing, growing continuously. Regular growth is simple — it keeps “pushing” a number in the same, real direction it was going. Imaginary growth is different — the “interest” we earn is in a different direction! It’s like a jet engine that was strapped on sideways — instead of going forward, we start pushing at 90 degrees. The neat thing about a constant orthogonal (perpendicular) push is that it doesn’t speed you up or slow you down — it rotates you! Taking any number and multiplying by i will not change its magnitude, just the direction it points. * Regular exponential growth continuously increases ‘e’ by a set rate; imaginary exponential growth continuously rotates a number.
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In imaginary growth, we apply i units of growth in infinitely small increments, each rotating us at a 90-degree angle. In real growth, we push growth in the same direction while compounding and continuously increasing. So while one pushes forward, the other rotates the evergrowing line of growth as shown the graph below. Also, the distance travelled around a circle is an angle in radians. We’ve found another way to describe circular motion just like using sine and cosine! So, Euler’s formula is saying that “exponential, imaginary growth traces out a circle”. And this path is the same as moving in a circle using sine and cosine in the complex plane.