ethnic interest group

Examples of ethnic interest group in the following topics:

• Interest Groups

  • Foreign policy interest groups are domestic advocacy organizations which seek to influence the government's foreign policy.
  • According to U.S. scholar John Dietrich, these interest groups have mobilized to represent a diverse array of business, labor, ethnic, human rights, environmental, and other organizations.
  • Foreign policy interest groups often overlap with so-called "ethnic" interest groups, as they try to influence the foreign policy and, to a lesser extent, the domestic policy of the United States for the benefit of the foreign "ethnic kin" or homeland with whom respective ethnic groups identify.
  • Though ethnic interest groups have existed for many decades, they have become a particularly influential phenomenon since the end of the Cold War.
  • The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a prominent foreign policy interest group

• Cohesiveness

  • Characteristics shared by members of a group may include interests, values, representations, ethnic or social background, and kinship ties.
  • An ethnic interest group, according to the political scientist Thomas Ambrosio, is an advocacy group established along cultural, ethnic, religious, or racial lines by an ethnic group for the purposes of directly or indirectly influencing the foreign policy of their resident country in support of the homeland and/or ethnic kin abroad with which they identify.
  • According to Ambrosio, "like other societal interest groups, ethnic identity groups establish formal organizations devoted to promoting group cohesiveness and addressing group concerns. " While many formal organizations, established by ethnic identity groups, are apolitical, others are created explicitly for political purposes.
  • In general, groups who seek to influence government policy on domestic or foreign issues are referred to as "advocacy groups. " Those interest groups, established by ethnic identity groups, are referred to as ethnic interest groups.
  • The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee is an example of an ethnic interest group.

• Ethnicity

  • An ethnic group is a group of people whose members identify with one another through a common cultural heritage.
  • Primordialism holds that ethnicity has existed at all times of human history and that modern ethnic groups have historical roots far into the past.
  • Perennialism holds that ethnicity is ever changing, and that while the concept of ethnicity has existed at all times, ethnic groups are generally short lived before the ethnic boundaries realign in new patterns.
  • The women above are wearing an interesting fusion of modern and ethnic clothing.
  • Provides a glimpse into the many and diverse ethnic groups to be found in China.

• Social Classes in the Colonies

  • The American colonies were unique due to the representation of many different interest groups in political decision-making.
  • Unlike Europe, where aristocratic families and the established church were in control, the American political culture was open to economic, social, religious, ethnic, and geographical interests, with merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers, and many other identifiable groups taking part.
  • Elected representatives learned to listen to these interests because 90 percent of the men in the lower houses lived in their districts—unlike England where it was common to have a member of Parliament and absentee member of Parliament.
  • Charleston supported diverse ethnic groups, including Germans and French, as well as a free black population.

• Ethnocentrism & Cultural Relativism

  • He defined it as, "The sentiment of cohesion, internal comradeship, and devotion to the in-group, which carries with it a sense of superiority to any out-group and readiness to defend the interests of the in-group against the out-group. " Ethnocentrism often entails the belief that one's own race or ethnic group is the most important and/or that some or all aspects of its culture are superior to those of other groups.
  • Within this ideology, individuals will judge other groups in relation to their own particular ethnic group or culture, especially with concern to language, behaviour, customs, and religion.
  • It also involves an incapacity to acknowledge that cultural differentiation does not imply inferiority of those groups who are ethnically distinct from one's own.

• Ethnic Groups

  • An ethnic group is a group of people who share a common heritage, culture, and/or language; in the U.S., ethnicity often refers to race.
  • An ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other through a common heritage, which generally consists of a common culture and shared language or dialect.
  • This is due to the historical and ongoing significance of racial distinctions that categorize together what might otherwise have been viewed as ethnic groups.
  • Most prominently in the U.S., Latin American descended populations are grouped in a "Hispanic" or "Latino" ethnicity.
  • The many previously designated "Oriental" ethnic groups are now classified as the "Asian" racial group for the census.

• Differences Between Groups and Teams

  • All teams are groups of individuals, but not all groups are teams.
  • While all teams are groups of individuals, not all groups are teams.
  • A group is comprised of two or more individuals that share common interests or characteristics, and its members identify with each other due to similar traits.
  • Groups can range greatly in size and scope.
  • Groups can exist as a matter of fact; for example, a group can be comprised of people of the same race or ethnic background.

• Practice 1: Goodness-of-Fit Test

  • The cumulative number of AIDS cases reported for Santa Clara County is broken down by ethnicity as follows: (Source: HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Santa Clara County, Santa Clara County Public Health Department, May 2011)
  • The percentage of each ethnic group in Santa Clara County is as follows:
  • If the ethnicity of AIDS victims followed the ethnicity of the total county population, fill in the expected number of cases per ethnic group.
  • Perform a goodness-of-fit test to determine whether the make-up of AIDS cases follows the ethnicity of the general population of Santa Clara County.
  • Does it appear that the pattern of AIDS cases in Santa Clara County corresponds to the distribution of ethnic groups in this county?

• Race and Ethnicity

  • An individual is usually externally classified (meaning someone else makes the classification) into a racial group rather than the individual choosing where they belong as part of their identity.
  • Some of the social traits often used for ethnic classification include:
  • Unlike race, ethnicity is not usually externally assigned by other individuals.
  • The term ethnicity focuses more upon a group's connection to a perceived shared past and culture.
  • An example of an ethnic group in the U.S. is Hispanic or Latino.

• Colonial Government

  • Unlike Europe, where aristocratic families and established churches dominated the political sphere, American political culture was relatively open to economic, social, religious, ethnic, and geographical interests (although still excluding the participation of American Indians, women, and African Americans).
  • Merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers, and many other groups participated in local community government life.
  • Additionally, non-English ethnic groups had clusters of settlements, such as the Scotch Irish and the Germans.
  • Although each group assimilated into the dominant English Protestant commercial and political culture, they tended to vote in blocs and politicians often negotiated with group leaders for support.
  • Local leaders found themselves directly negotiating and engaging with a wider body politic that included elites as well as petty farmers and ethnic immigrants who had a voice in the political process.