Sentences with phrase «as members of minority groups»

Both Obama, the nation's first black president, and Romney, a Mormon, have found that their shared status as members of minority groups and political pioneers, in many ways, has also changed the rules of this presidential campaign cycle, said Nancy Wadsworth, co-editor of the anthology «Faith and Race in American Political Life.»

The word Rohingya hit the headlines as members of the minority group were forced to flee violence in Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh.

It's so easy to underestimate the impact of seeing yourself reflected in your favourite games as a member of a minority group.

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Users were reporting everyday activities of members of minority groups in their neighborhoods as «suspicious.»

So as a member of the most oppressed minority group in the history of time, religion is the cause of 95 % of the evil in this world and I don't need it in my government.

As a minority group living in a hostile culture, members of the early Christian churches were in no position to identify the bestowal of God's grace and blessing with national peace and prosperity.

One seminary teacher tells of being at his greatest effectiveness during the days that he shared with his students the blow - by - blow account of his dealings with real estate people as he sold his house to a member of a minority group and tried, at the same time, to act responsibly toward his neighbors.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

NYPD critics and minority groups — already frustrated by the death of Eric Garner in police custody and what they've decried as unfair use of Mr. Bratton's «broken windows» policing — have expressed concern about the departure of Mr. Pineiro and now Mr. Banks, the department's highest - ranking Hispanic and black members, respectively.

In this view, members of a minority experience anxiety at the prospect of confirming negative stereotypes about their group, such as low intelligence.

Those studies could involve systematic or structural discrimination, such as school and neighborhood segregation, or internalized discrimination, which refers to when members of a racial minority absorb the racist messages they hear, resulting in self - hatred or hatred of their minority group.

There is evidence that members of religious groups who are persecuted or in the minority might have markedly greater stress and anxiety as they try to navigate their own society.

Priority will be given to members of historically underrepresented groups, such as scientists at small colleges, minorities, non-traditional students, and veterans, among others.

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Debunking the stereotype that the nation's poorest, most unhealthy, and most undereducated children are members of minority groups living in urban areas, the report says 14.9 million, or one - fourth of, American children living in rural areas face conditions «just as bleak and in some respects even bleaker than their metropolitan counterparts.»

It had all the ingredients of arts education advocacy and some enticing rebelliousness as well: a caring teacher who doesn't give up on sliding students, a bad kid with a heart and a brain, a visiting artist in a tough school, and a minority group member defying administrative powers for love of theater.

Members of minority groups and others had criticized the test as culturally biased.

The catch, said the NCRC, is that the use of layering with FHA loans is also discriminatory because as credit score requirements are raised members of minority groups are less likely to qualify for financing.

His participation in arts organizations included his role as a founding member of Spiral, an association of African American artists that came together in 1963 to support the civil rights movement; his 1964 appointment as the first art director of the newly established Harlem Cultural Council, a prominent African American advocacy group with several hundred members; and his role in concert with artists Ernest Crichlow and Norman Lewis (with seed money from the Ford Foundation), as a founding member of Cinque Gallery which supported young minority artists.

Roughly 1 / 3rd of new calls in Ontario — most of whom attend law school in Ontario — identify as being members of a racialized group (an imperfect estimate, given the LSUC methodology, but probably a good first order approximation)-- by way of comparison 22 % of Ontarians are identified by stats can as being «visible minorities».

This can include: constant insults and put - downs that damage your feelings of self - worth, threatening harm to you, your children, your loved ones, your family pets, or your belongings, isolating you from others, threatening to «out» you as a member of a sexual minority group.

Others will experience additional barriers because they are members of certain other groups, such as ethnic groups, who may experience discrimination because they are visible minorities or have traditions, cultures and religions that are distinct from other cultures in mainstream Canada.

According to 2017 Diversity Scorecard, 33.4 percent of the Firm's 656 US lawyers were a member of a minority group in 2016, as well as 20.6 percent of the Firm's US partners.

In Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America, Dean David Thomas of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business states that minorities in corporate settings are often overlooked for promotions because people tend to view members of their own racial groups as more promotable, and often give them higher performance ratings.

My next step in the following weeks will be to begin work on organizing a forum on the issue to be held at Emory University School of Law, to which I will invite by publication invitation members of the statewide judiciary and criminal justice system, as well as representatives of low income minority churches and groups, and the general public.

Two categories of non-discriminatory differentiation protected within a human rights framework are the right to express one's cultural identity, referred to variously as minority rights or cultural rights [109], and the provision of measures by governments to facilitate the advancement of members of certain racial groups who historically have been disadvantaged by discriminatory policies.

[24] Often, to ensure equal enjoyment of culture as specified in human rights standards, additional measures are necessary for the members of minority and Indigenous groups.

The norm of non-discrimination as a reverse side of the notion of equality before the law prohibits a State to exclude members of a minority group from participating in rights, interests and opportunities which a majority population group can enjoy.