Community and Race

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Community and Race

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Community and race are directly related to each

other. Since community is a large society

composed of a number of people with different

backgrounds, people are categorized into

several groups according to their ethnicity.

Moreover, each of the particular ethnic groups

is considered a subculture group. Although the

subculture groups follow the same laws and

rules of the community, they share a distinctive

set of cultural beliefs and behaviors that differ

in some significant way from the larger society.

(Kendall 1998:61) The unlike beliefs can lead

to conflicts and arguments between different

race groups. Likewise, racism is also found in a

community when a particular group

discriminates or abuses members of another

race. Therefore, local government or some

community associations are responsible for

providing anti-racism knowledge to every

member in the community and encourage them

to build up a friendly neighborhood in order to

keep the society stable. Kabeer in "The

Structure of ‘Revealed Preference’" describes

how racism destroys a sense of community, and

Bangladeshi group suffer a lot from this issue.

Also, Englund in "An Indian Remembers"

describes native students that are victims of

racism by the priest and the nuns at school. In

contrast, Counts and Counts in "They’re Family

Now" mention that the RVers community is full

of harmony without discriminating other

members’ race, educational level, age, etc., and

they have a friendly neighborhood.

In Kabeer’s article "The Structure of ‘Revealed

Preference’"; the Bangladeshi people immigrate

to United Kingdom and automatically become

members of the local community. The

Bangladeshis follow the same laws and rules as

other local residents, British – whites, but

carrying different culture beliefs. Therefore, the

Bangladeshi people are considered a subculture

group of the white community. For example,

the Bangladeshi culture has a very unique way

of thinking about women entering into the work

force. They believe that "women are primarily,

often solely, responsible for child care and

housework and hence the assignment of women

to home-based forms of income earning."

(Kabeer 1995: 40) Moreover, women "i...

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... property. Therefore, community and race are

closely related to each other that a large society

often consist of different ethnic groups of

people, and there might be some conflicts and

arguments between them. As a result, in order

to have a stable society full of harmony,

everybody needs to eliminate racism and

conflicts.

Work Cited

Counts, Dorothy Ayers and David R. Counts.

"'They're My Family Now': The Creation of

Community among RVers." Rpt. in Academic

Reading: Reading and Writing Across the

Disciplines. Janet Giltrow. Peterborough, ON:

Broadview Press, 1995. 52-85.

Englund, Mary. "An Indian rememvers" Rpt. in

Academic Reading: Reading and Writing Across

the Disciplines. Janet Giltrow. Peterborough,

ON: Broadview Press, 1995. 430-443.

Kabeer, Naila. "'The Structure of ‘revealed’

Preference: Race, community and Female

Labour Supply in the London Clothing

Industry." Rpt. in Academic Reading: Reading

and Writing Across the Disciplines. Janet

Giltrow. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press,

1995. 18-51.

Kendall, Diana. Sociology in our times – The

essentials. Ontario: ITP Nelson, 1998

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