Sentences with phrase «racial groups because»

Now that antigens are better understood, cross-racial transplants often make better matches than those from within a racial group because, as Dunston is quick to point out, it's the individual response that counts, not the group's.

Not exact matches

Because of this, people who fall into a gender, racial, or ethnic group that is likely to experience negative bias have found that downplaying that association can help them sidestep discrimination, behavior known as «covering.»

Pushed out of the argument because it is so impossibly incorrect is The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, which argued that IQ and other factors crucial to social success are genetically determined and are unequally distributed among racial groups.

While it can never be fair to will that members of a disfavored class - whether the unborn, the disabled, or members of some racial or religious minority group - be excluded from legal protections one wills for oneself and those dear to one, a legislator or voter is personally responsible for no unfairness to the victims of an objectively unjust law where he supports that law precisely, and only, because the alternative is even less protective of its victims.

So there is evidence that some services are not meeting needs because of gendered and racial assumptions and that these are disproportionately affecting vulnerable groups, such as young families and minority ethnic groups.

Black, Hispanic and «others» representing Asians, Pacific Islanders and mothers in other racial minorities were grouped together as non-white because of their few numbers (Black = 4 %, Hispanic = 6 %, other racial minorities = 5 %).

«Complainants have expressed concerns that the ad, in particular the phrase «go home», is offensive and irresponsible because it is reminiscent of slogans used by racist groups to attack immigrants in the past and could incite or exacerbate racial hatred and tensions in multicultural communities,» an ASA spokesman told Politics.co.uk.

Just because you are not of a racial and ethnic group does not mean you are aren't in tune with the needs of the community.»

Because cancer risk differs drastically in different racial groups, the researchers felt that an ethnically diverse population would more accurately reflect true cancer risk.

In addition to groups that come together because of racial, ethnic background, and gender connections, affinity groups also bring together individuals based on country of origin, religion, physical disabilities, military service, age, sexual orientation, and many other commonalities.

The report from the Learning First Alliance, a permanent partnership of a dozen education groups, says the districts were selected in part because they showed three or more years of improvement in student test scores that crossed subjects, grade levels, and racial and ethnic groups.

The decline also is notable because it occurred among all racial and Hispanic origin groups.

This type of data is needed to accurately describe changes in diversity as students move between sectors because there is significant variation in student demographics at the school level that is often obscured when examining the issue at higher levels of aggregation (e.g. comparing charters as a group to surrounding school district or metropolitan area) and can complicate the drawing of valid inferences about the relationship between public school choice and racial sorting.

As Dr. Haertel points out, contrasts between age - based and grade - based gaps and trends can be useful because children are starting school at a later chronological age and students of various racial and ethnic groups are retained in grade at different rates.

Classroom - level data presents some privacy challenges because of the small number of students involved, particularly if disaggregated data (for example, the performance of an single racial group in a classroom that has only one or two members of that group).

Liberals divided Finally, because alternative certification has been sought by racial minority groups advocating for education reform, the issue has divided political liberals into uncomfortable camps.

More recently, the advocacy group Parents United for Responsible Education put the issue on the front burner when it filed a federal civil rights complaint against the district's retention policy because of its disparate racial impact.

• Boys who went to private religious schools were most likely to say that they had used racial slurs and insults in the past year as well as mistreated someone because he or she «belonged to a different group.»

It is important to note that these are often happening simultaneously, and they are only grouped in this historical faction because they have been the dominant force driving racial segregation at the time listed relative to the other events (i.e. government action is listed first, not because it is over but because it was the most significant force shaping early housing segregation).

AC: It can be both natural and difficult for me to condemn the history of abstract painting because of its generation from a singularly dominated racial and gendered group.

According to the Post story, back in the spring, D.C. Superior Court Judge Neal Kravitz sent back a pool of 70 prospective jurors because the racial composition of the group — 61 whites, eight blacks and one Asian — didn't align with the racial and economic population within the District.

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.

If you believe an employer has treated you differently because of your race or that you have been subjected to racial harassment, contact the New Hampshire Employee Rights Group to learn more about your rights.

Known as «disparate impact» discrimination, the problem is that blanket policies may disproportionately exclude protected classes (based on racial groups, gender, or one of several other categories) from employment because the reason for exclusion is more common in a certain group.

«Representatives of the Indigenous, Greek, Jewish, Chinese, Arab, Armenian and Korean communities have expressed their «vehement opposition» to changes that have been mooted to sections of the Racial Discrimination Act which prohibit public conduct that is reasonably likely to «offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate» a person or groups because of their skin colour or national or ethnic origin.

The campaign is also national because while there are some regional differences in attitudes towards different racial and cultural groups — as the Challenging Racism project has found — there is little variation in attitudes between urban and rural areas.

This definition is consistent with the fundamental concern of a human rights approach that people or groups do not suffer disadvantage or invidious treatment because of their racial origin.

This shift in the test is important because it raises the possibility that differential treatment that has a detrimental effect on an already disadvantaged racial group might be permitted through the substantive equality door even though such treatment would not be permitted under a formal equality approach.

Because of the diverse nature of Australia's population, many children can belong to more than one cultural, racial or ethnic group or community.

Indeed, contrary to Justice Mason's concern that the eligibility of the group enjoying the right is restricted to one racial group, it is because native title characteristically is held by members of a particular race that interference with the enjoyment of native title is capable of amounting to discrimination on the basis of race, colour or national or ethnic origin.

For African - Americans in the U.S., later ages at birth are associated with higher rates of neonatal mortality, perhaps because the stress of chronic disadvantage and racial discrimination accelerates biological aging for this group.

Racially and ethnically diverse schools may reduce rates of bullying behavior because no one racial or ethnic group is dominant.

Because of these things, many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have little sense of how to control their lives, as individuals, communities and as a distinct cultural and racial group within Australia.