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Describe and assess the social position of a minority ethnic group in any one society and the extent to which racism has influenced the social position of its members.
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Describe and assess the social position of a minority ethnic group in any one society and the extent to which racism has influenced the social position of its members. A minority ethnic group is a community whose members share common cultural traditions existing as a minority in a much larger society. We can find inequalities with a racial or ethnic dimension around the world. But there are great variations in the nature and significance of such inequalities. In Europe, racial divisions have emerged out of a colonial past and recent history of inward labour migration. Whereas, patterns of racial and ethnic disadvantage have very different flavours in the 'melting pot' societies of U.S.A and Australia. It is argued that these varied divisions are not the natural and inevitable product of something called race but instead are socially constructed. So, it follows that they can only be understood in their particular historical...
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