07 November 2010
26 October 2010
5 keping gambar mengenai Teknologi dan Inovasi
BASIKAL TEKNOLOGI TERKINI..
Ini adalah rekaan dari Kevin Scott iaitu basikal yang dapat dibengkokkan agar anda dapat menguncikannya di sekitar tiang lampu atau tiang. Hal ini tentu akan dapat menghentikan pencuri daripada mencuri basikal anda. Perancang Industri muda ini, menggunakan sistem Ratchet yang dibina ke dalam rangka basikal untuk membolehkan basikal dibengkokkan di sekitar tiang. Sepeda motor akan membengkok untuk mengunci dirinya sendiri, jadi tidak perlu dirantai, kunci sepeda biasa akan mampu mengunci frame dan kedua-dua roda. Basikal ini juga boleh disimpan di dalam ruang kecil.
Designer : Kevin Scott
TETIKUS BAHARU...
Mouse ini akan menggunakan teknologi terbaru, yang disebut Blue Track. Teknologi ini kelak akan menggantikan mouse laser mahupun optical. Teknologi ini memakai led biru yang dikombinasikan dengan lensa wide-angle. LED Biru ini membuat mouse ini terlihat lebih menawan. Teknologi Blue Track ini mempunyai kemampuan tracking yang lebih baik daripada mouse laser dan mouse optical biasa pada permukaan yang tidak biasa dipakai pada mouse laser.
TELEFON PINTAR...
Nokia 888 direka bertujuan untuk menunjukkan kes rawan aktiviti kehidupan remaja sehingga dapat menyesuaikan diri saat ini dan fungsi yang digunakan. Teknologi yang digunakan adalah bateri cair, pengenalan suara dengan layar sentuh yang fleksibel dan sentuhan menutupi tubuh sensitif yang membolehkan memahami antara sama lain dan sesuai untuk alam sekitar. Ini mudah dibawa kerana dapat menjadi bengkok dan digulung dan dimasukkan ke dalam kain seperti klip jika tidak membawanya di pergelangan tangan atau sebagai telefon biasa. Jadi inilah satu bentuk instrumen yang sesuai dengan remaja pada masa ini.
MO:BEN...
Mo: Ben merupakan bekas makanan praktikal yang merangkumi built-in komponen pemanas filem yang boleh memanaskan makanan dengan suhu pra-air panas. Mo: mekanisme utama Ben mempertahankan panas adalah kombinasi dari insulasi busa-rongga diisi dan built-in pemanas faktor. Ada dua bahagian utama dari peranti, satu tempat luaran yang mempunyai pegangan membawa, slip asas getah pelindung dan simpanan alat makan, dan lain-lain adalah substensi sensitif suhu untuk penunjuk persiapan makanan. Tempat dalaman memegang makanan dan boleh dilepaskan untuk kemudahan-hidangan cuci. Tetapan dalam kotak yang direka untuk menggalakkan pelbagai makanan dan campuran makanan dicegah oleh gerabak sedia berbeza.
SURAT KHABAR MODEN...
Jadi, anda juga salah satu dari mereka yang membenci kertas akhbar dengan sekumpulan keras untuk menguruskan laman dan kesulitan bahkan lebih ketika menyimpan yang lama, membuat tumpukan sampah kertas di dalam rumah anda yang boleh membuat lingkungan interior berdebu dan tidak sihat . Tapi ada banyak yang masih suka membaca akhbar kertas, walaupun mereka berjuang dengan masalah terkenal. Untuk kedua kumpulan, eRoll, konsep skrin rollable dapat menyediakan fungsi yang sangat baik dengan memberikan nuansa membaca surat khabar nyata, sementara menghilangkan menyimpan sibuk dari salinan yang lama dan juga mengurangkan risiko pemanasan global dengan menyelamatkan banyak pohon.Tidak hanya surat khabar konsep, eRoll juga boleh digunakan untuk membaca e-dokumen, majalah dan banyak lagi dan boleh menyimpan salinan yang lebih tua di built-in memori.
Designer : Dragan Trencevski
23 September 2010
Teknologi dan Inovasi dalam Pembentukan Tamadun???
Teknologi pada masa kini sering kali dikatakan memberi sumbangan dalam membantu pembentukan tamadun manusia itu sendiri.. Bagaimanapun, sering kali juga kita dengar bahawa teknologi juga turut memberi impak negatif dalam pembentukan tamadun manusia itu sendiri... Sejauhmanakah rakan-rakan setuju mengenai kepentingan teknologi dalam inovasi dalam pembentukkan tamadun manusia itu sendiri (beri 5 sebab)... Selamat comments..hehe;-)
21 September 2010
Individual Project 4 Technology n Inovasion in Education>>
Salam.. Bagi tugasan Individu, setelah lama berfikir dan merujuk video-video daripada Youtube.. Saya merasakan bahawa projek membuat teleskop adalah terbaik untuk dilakukan.. cuma... saya mempunyai masalah untuk mendapatkan kanta cekung bagi projek ini.. tapi masalah itu tidak mungkin menjadi halangan besar bagi meneruskan projek ini..hehe
24 March 2010
Culture Assimilation
Cultural assimilation is a political response to the demographic fact of multi-ethnicity which encourages absorption of the minority into the dominant culture. It is opposed to affirmative philosophy (for example, multiculturalism) which recognizes and seeks to maintain differences.
The term assimilation is often used with regard to immigrants to a new land, for example the various ethnic groups who have settled in the United States. New customs and attitudes are acquired through contact and communication. The transfer of customs is not simply a one-way process. Each group of immigrants contributes some of its own cultural traits to its new society. Assimilation usually involves a gradual change and takes place in varying degrees; full assimilation occurs when new members of a society become indistinguishable from older members. Another example culture assimilation is Chinese and Indian ethinic who live in Malaysia from a few hundred years ago.
Cultural influence
A group (a state or an ethnicity) can spontaneously adopt a different culture due to its political relevance, or to its perceived superiority. The first is the case of the Latin language and culture, that were gradually adopted by most of the subjugated people.
The second is the case of subjugated, but older and richer culture, which see itself imitated by the new masters, e.g. the victorious Roman Republic adopted more from the Hellenistic cultures than it imposed in most domains, except such Roman specialties as law and the military.
This situation show that political can become culture assimilation especially from borjuis or richer culture to subjugated people by gradually process.
Assimilation of immigrants
Immigrant assimilation is a complex process in which an immigrant fully integrates themselves into a new country. Social scientists rely on four primary benchmarks to assess immigrant assimilation: socioeconomic status, geographic distribution, second language attainment, and intermarriage. William A.V. Clark defines immigrant assimilation "as a way of understanding the social dynamics of American society and that it is the process that occurs spontaneously and often unintended in the course of interaction between majority and minority groups". However, culture assimilation is not just show out interaction between the majority and minority groups in American society, but also in all place in the world.
It has been found that between 1880 and 1920, the United States took in roughly 24 million immigrants. This increase in immigration can be attributed to many historical changes. Later, during the cold war from the 1960s through the 1980s and the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, over 1.8 million Jews (including some non-Jewish family members) emigrated from the former Soviet Union. The major destination countries were Israel (about 1.1 million), the United States (over 400,000), Germany (about 130,000), and Canada (about 30,000). The beginning of the twenty-first century has also marked a massive era of immigration, and sociologists are once again trying to make sense of the impact that immigration has on society and the impact it has on immigrants themselves.
Theoretical explanations
Researchers have attempted to explain the assimilation rate for post 1965 immigrants in the United States with experiences of immigrants who entered the United States between 1880 and 1920. Many of the methods and theories that are used to assess immigrant assimilation today are derived from earlier immigrant studies. One of the leading theories in understanding immigrant assimilation came from William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki whom published "The Polish Peasant in Europe and America". William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki's study on Polish immigrants (1880–1910) assessed how these immigrants built an institutional community in the United States during the Napoleonic War. Another influence on immigrant assimilation came from Robert Park, Ernest Burgess, and William I. Thomas, in which they trained graduate students to study the experiences of immigrants in Chicago. Robert Park, Ernest Burgess, and William I. Thomas provided these graduate students with theoretical tools such as Park's theory on collective behavior. The third theory on immigrant assimilation comes from Gordon's book, Assimilation in American life. Gordon highlighted the generational change in immigrant groups, it states that the first generation or foreign born were less assimilated and less exposed to American life than their American-born children (the second generation), and their grandchildren (third-generation) were more like the American mainstream than their parents.
Theoretical models to immigrant assimilation
The first, classic and new assimilation model sees immigrants and native-born people following a "straight-line" or a convergence. This theory sees immigrants becoming more similar over time in norms, values, behaviors, and characteristics. This theory also expects those immigrants residing the longest in the host population, as well as the members of later generations, to show greater similarities with the majority group than immigrants who have spent less time in the host society. The second, racial or ethnic disadvantage model states that immigrant's chances to assimilate are "blocked". An example of this model would be discrimination and institutional barriers to employment and other opportunities. The third, the segmented assimilation model theorizes that structural barriers, such as poor urban schools, cut off access to employment and other opportunities — obstacles that often are particularly severe in the case of the most disadvantaged members of immigrant groups, and such impediments can lead to stagnant or downward mobility, even as the children of other immigrants follow divergent paths toward classic straight-line assimilation.
Core measurements to immigrant assimilation
Researchers have assessed that assimilation exists among immigrants because we can measure assimilation on four primary benchmarks. These core measurable aspects of immigrant assimilation that were formulated to study European immigrants to the United States are still the starting points for understanding current immigrant assimilation. These measurable aspects of assimilation are socioeconomic status, spatial concentration, language attainment, and intermarriage.
1. Socioeconomic Status is defined by educational attainment, occupation, and income. By measuring socioeconomic status researchers want to find out if immigrants eventually catch up to native-born people in terms of human capital characteristics.
2. Spatial Concentration is defined by geography or residential patterns. The spatial residential model (based on theories of Park) proposed by Massey states that increasing socioeconomic attainment, longer residence in the U.S, and higher generational status lead to decreasing residential concentration for a particular ethnic group.
3. Language Attainment is defined as the ability to speak English and the loss of the individual's mother tongue. The three-generation model of language assimilation states that the first generation makes some progress in language assimilation but remains dominant in their native tongue, the second generation is bilingual, and the third-generation only speaks English.
4. Intermarriage is defined by race or ethnicity and occasionally by generation.[3] High rates of intermarriage are considered to be an indication of social integration because it reveals intimate and profound relations between people of different groups, intermarriage reduces the ability of families to pass on to their children a consistent ethnic culture and thus is an agent of assimilation.[9] Intermarriage came under particular scrutiny by the Jewish community in the early-mid 20th century as Jewish leaders more and more often turned to social scientists to explain why Judaism was a typically endogamic religion. Although intermarriage was viewed as a firm base from which to begin an argument for assimilation, it was also seen as a way to gradually ease the transition into their new culture. Julius Draschler, a graduate student at Columbia University, believed that as long as people are allowed to maintain some differences, such as the Jewish practice of only marrying another Jew, they will delay the inevitable while simultaneously enriching the nation in the process of their slow assimilation. While Draschler acknowledged that assimilation was the ultimate endpoint for all American groups, he hoped to prove through his intermarriage studies that, the more gradual the process, the better. Such need to justify (or vilify) the intermarriage practice became increasingly important after the 1950's as Jews (as well as other typically endogamic cultures, such as African-Americans) began to engage in more exogamic relationships.
Immigrant name changing as a form of assimilation
While the changing of immigrant names is not one of the 4 measurable benchmarks for assimilation outlined by early sociologists, it nonetheless represents a clear abandonment of the old as new immigrants are absorbed into the fabric of society. It is often believed that, due to language barriers, or the lack of training and sensitivity by government officials, names were often changed, without consent, by inspectors on Ellis Island. This general misconstruction of the facts is refuted in an article released by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, claiming that inspectors did not personally take names, instead inventorying the passengers using manifestos created by the shipping companies themselves. As a matter of fact, many immigrants changed their names willingly. It's suggested by the Immigration and Naturalization Service that most name blunders were likely the fault of the origin, and not the destination. Donna Przecha, a published and well-known expert in genealogy, suggests a number of alternative explanations for name changing, one of which was a need for employment. A huge surplus of labor began to immigrate to the United States, many of whom were unskilled, with names that were often difficult to pronounce. Unfortunately,employers were not bound by the same anti-discriminatory legislature that they are now, and tended to gravitate towards individuals with more American names. Comfort and fitting in was also a heavy motivator behind the changing of names. Many, if not most, US immigrants in the mid 1900's planned to make the United States their new home, permanently. Given this fact, it should come as no surprise that many immigrants welcomed the impending assimilation brought on by their host country. Eager to begin their new lives, many did as much as they could to become "American" as quickly as possible, particularly children. Of course, simplicity was yet another factor in the abandonment of old titles. As immigrants poured in from various European countries, many found their names to be difficult to pronounce and/or spell for many Americans, such as those names with many syllables, or with a large number of Z's.
Policies on immigrant assimilation
When considering immigrant assimilation it is important to consider why immigrants migrate. One reason immigrants migrated was The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act(IRCA), which legalized 2.3 million formally undocumented Mexican Immigrants. This Act freed these newly legalized immigrants from the fear of being apprehended, and it was found that many of these immigrants moved to states beyond the nearest U.S-Mexican border..
Modifications for assessing immigrant assimilation
Studies on immigrant assimilation in the 19th century and 20th century conclude that immigrants had a hard time catching up to the same human capital characteristics as native-born people in the 19th century, but studies in the 20th century suggest that immigrants eventually catch up to native born people. Timothy J. Hatton explains this puzzle on immigrant assimilation in the 19th century and in the 20th century. He explores how recent studies have been producing misleading results between the two. Hatton focuses his research on the specification of the earnings function.Hatton argues that that specification of the earnings function should be improved in two ways. First, immigrants who arrived as children should be treated separately from those who arrived as adults. Second, specification of the earnings function should be better approximate to the true shape of age-earnings profiles. Hatton points out that with these modifications , the patterns of immigrant earnings which have emerged make more sense with those of the 20th century and with traditional views on immigrant assimilation in the 19th century.
Owning a home and immigrant assimilation
Owning a home can be seen as a step into assimilation. William A.V. Clark explores this link in his book "Immigrants and the American Dream Remarking the Middle Class". Clark is aware that the process of assimilation is more than just being able to purchase a home. He argues that "homeownership" is one of the steps of assimilation, it is becoming part of the community and a neighborhood, and being a part of the daily activities that take place in a community.
Naturalization and immigrant assimilation
Other than marriage, Citizenship is one of the most significant factors in assimilation .The immigration debate focuses not only the number of immigrants who should be admitted, who should be allowed to be admitted but it is also looks at the processes of incorporation, and most importantly how citizenship should be extended and to whom it should be extended to. For example, should it be extended to those who arrive illegally. Allowing for naturalization of immigrants can create tension in assimilation. On one hand, those who favor the admission of immigrants input that these new residents will help build and enrich the American democratic process. However others argue that the nature and legitimacy of the nation may be challenged and perhaps even threatened.
New immigrant gateways and immigrant assimilation
Although it is changing, the overwhelming majority of immigrants still settle in traditional gateway states such as Florida, New York, California, Illinois, Texas, and Massachusetts. It has found that immigrants settle in traditional gateways where there are large populations of foreign-born people. Walters and Jimenez have illustrated the changes in the geographic distribution and the rates of growth of immigration in the United States. They show the number of foreign-born individuals in states where the foreign-born population grew by a factor of two or more between 1990 and 2000. Walters and Jimenez found that the largest percentage growth in the foreign-born population, was found in either the Midwest or the South in additional none of the traditional gateways were included in this large percentage growth. Walters and Jimenez noted that a reason these traditional gateways did not have an increase at the same rate of the new gateways was because, new gateways did not have many immigrants to begin with. Walters and Jimenez have argued that this new change in geography could possibly change the way researchers assess immigrant assimilation. They argue that these new gateways are unique and they propose that immigrant assimilation may be different from the experiences of immigrants in more traditional gateways in at least three ways. First, the long history of immigration in these established gateways means that the place of immigrants in terms of class, racial, and ethnic hierarchies in these traditional gateways are more structured or established on the other hand these new gateways do not have much immigration history therefore the place of immigrants in terms of class, racial, and ethnic hierarchies is less defined and immigrants may have more influence to define their position. Second, the size of new gateways may influence immigrant assimilation. Having a smaller gateway may influence the level of segregation among immigrants and native-born people. Third, the difference in institutional arrangements may influence immigrant assimilation. Traditional gateways unlike new gateways have many institutions set up to help immigrants which include legal-aid, bureaus, social organizations. Finally, Walters and Jimenez have only speculated that these differences may influence immigrant assimilation and the way researchers should assess immigrant assimilation.
The term assimilation is often used with regard to immigrants to a new land, for example the various ethnic groups who have settled in the United States. New customs and attitudes are acquired through contact and communication. The transfer of customs is not simply a one-way process. Each group of immigrants contributes some of its own cultural traits to its new society. Assimilation usually involves a gradual change and takes place in varying degrees; full assimilation occurs when new members of a society become indistinguishable from older members. Another example culture assimilation is Chinese and Indian ethinic who live in Malaysia from a few hundred years ago.
Cultural influence
A group (a state or an ethnicity) can spontaneously adopt a different culture due to its political relevance, or to its perceived superiority. The first is the case of the Latin language and culture, that were gradually adopted by most of the subjugated people.
The second is the case of subjugated, but older and richer culture, which see itself imitated by the new masters, e.g. the victorious Roman Republic adopted more from the Hellenistic cultures than it imposed in most domains, except such Roman specialties as law and the military.
This situation show that political can become culture assimilation especially from borjuis or richer culture to subjugated people by gradually process.
Assimilation of immigrants
Immigrant assimilation is a complex process in which an immigrant fully integrates themselves into a new country. Social scientists rely on four primary benchmarks to assess immigrant assimilation: socioeconomic status, geographic distribution, second language attainment, and intermarriage. William A.V. Clark defines immigrant assimilation "as a way of understanding the social dynamics of American society and that it is the process that occurs spontaneously and often unintended in the course of interaction between majority and minority groups". However, culture assimilation is not just show out interaction between the majority and minority groups in American society, but also in all place in the world.
It has been found that between 1880 and 1920, the United States took in roughly 24 million immigrants. This increase in immigration can be attributed to many historical changes. Later, during the cold war from the 1960s through the 1980s and the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, over 1.8 million Jews (including some non-Jewish family members) emigrated from the former Soviet Union. The major destination countries were Israel (about 1.1 million), the United States (over 400,000), Germany (about 130,000), and Canada (about 30,000). The beginning of the twenty-first century has also marked a massive era of immigration, and sociologists are once again trying to make sense of the impact that immigration has on society and the impact it has on immigrants themselves.
Theoretical explanations
Researchers have attempted to explain the assimilation rate for post 1965 immigrants in the United States with experiences of immigrants who entered the United States between 1880 and 1920. Many of the methods and theories that are used to assess immigrant assimilation today are derived from earlier immigrant studies. One of the leading theories in understanding immigrant assimilation came from William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki whom published "The Polish Peasant in Europe and America". William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki's study on Polish immigrants (1880–1910) assessed how these immigrants built an institutional community in the United States during the Napoleonic War. Another influence on immigrant assimilation came from Robert Park, Ernest Burgess, and William I. Thomas, in which they trained graduate students to study the experiences of immigrants in Chicago. Robert Park, Ernest Burgess, and William I. Thomas provided these graduate students with theoretical tools such as Park's theory on collective behavior. The third theory on immigrant assimilation comes from Gordon's book, Assimilation in American life. Gordon highlighted the generational change in immigrant groups, it states that the first generation or foreign born were less assimilated and less exposed to American life than their American-born children (the second generation), and their grandchildren (third-generation) were more like the American mainstream than their parents.
Theoretical models to immigrant assimilation
The first, classic and new assimilation model sees immigrants and native-born people following a "straight-line" or a convergence. This theory sees immigrants becoming more similar over time in norms, values, behaviors, and characteristics. This theory also expects those immigrants residing the longest in the host population, as well as the members of later generations, to show greater similarities with the majority group than immigrants who have spent less time in the host society. The second, racial or ethnic disadvantage model states that immigrant's chances to assimilate are "blocked". An example of this model would be discrimination and institutional barriers to employment and other opportunities. The third, the segmented assimilation model theorizes that structural barriers, such as poor urban schools, cut off access to employment and other opportunities — obstacles that often are particularly severe in the case of the most disadvantaged members of immigrant groups, and such impediments can lead to stagnant or downward mobility, even as the children of other immigrants follow divergent paths toward classic straight-line assimilation.
Core measurements to immigrant assimilation
Researchers have assessed that assimilation exists among immigrants because we can measure assimilation on four primary benchmarks. These core measurable aspects of immigrant assimilation that were formulated to study European immigrants to the United States are still the starting points for understanding current immigrant assimilation. These measurable aspects of assimilation are socioeconomic status, spatial concentration, language attainment, and intermarriage.
1. Socioeconomic Status is defined by educational attainment, occupation, and income. By measuring socioeconomic status researchers want to find out if immigrants eventually catch up to native-born people in terms of human capital characteristics.
2. Spatial Concentration is defined by geography or residential patterns. The spatial residential model (based on theories of Park) proposed by Massey states that increasing socioeconomic attainment, longer residence in the U.S, and higher generational status lead to decreasing residential concentration for a particular ethnic group.
3. Language Attainment is defined as the ability to speak English and the loss of the individual's mother tongue. The three-generation model of language assimilation states that the first generation makes some progress in language assimilation but remains dominant in their native tongue, the second generation is bilingual, and the third-generation only speaks English.
4. Intermarriage is defined by race or ethnicity and occasionally by generation.[3] High rates of intermarriage are considered to be an indication of social integration because it reveals intimate and profound relations between people of different groups, intermarriage reduces the ability of families to pass on to their children a consistent ethnic culture and thus is an agent of assimilation.[9] Intermarriage came under particular scrutiny by the Jewish community in the early-mid 20th century as Jewish leaders more and more often turned to social scientists to explain why Judaism was a typically endogamic religion. Although intermarriage was viewed as a firm base from which to begin an argument for assimilation, it was also seen as a way to gradually ease the transition into their new culture. Julius Draschler, a graduate student at Columbia University, believed that as long as people are allowed to maintain some differences, such as the Jewish practice of only marrying another Jew, they will delay the inevitable while simultaneously enriching the nation in the process of their slow assimilation. While Draschler acknowledged that assimilation was the ultimate endpoint for all American groups, he hoped to prove through his intermarriage studies that, the more gradual the process, the better. Such need to justify (or vilify) the intermarriage practice became increasingly important after the 1950's as Jews (as well as other typically endogamic cultures, such as African-Americans) began to engage in more exogamic relationships.
Immigrant name changing as a form of assimilation
While the changing of immigrant names is not one of the 4 measurable benchmarks for assimilation outlined by early sociologists, it nonetheless represents a clear abandonment of the old as new immigrants are absorbed into the fabric of society. It is often believed that, due to language barriers, or the lack of training and sensitivity by government officials, names were often changed, without consent, by inspectors on Ellis Island. This general misconstruction of the facts is refuted in an article released by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, claiming that inspectors did not personally take names, instead inventorying the passengers using manifestos created by the shipping companies themselves. As a matter of fact, many immigrants changed their names willingly. It's suggested by the Immigration and Naturalization Service that most name blunders were likely the fault of the origin, and not the destination. Donna Przecha, a published and well-known expert in genealogy, suggests a number of alternative explanations for name changing, one of which was a need for employment. A huge surplus of labor began to immigrate to the United States, many of whom were unskilled, with names that were often difficult to pronounce. Unfortunately,employers were not bound by the same anti-discriminatory legislature that they are now, and tended to gravitate towards individuals with more American names. Comfort and fitting in was also a heavy motivator behind the changing of names. Many, if not most, US immigrants in the mid 1900's planned to make the United States their new home, permanently. Given this fact, it should come as no surprise that many immigrants welcomed the impending assimilation brought on by their host country. Eager to begin their new lives, many did as much as they could to become "American" as quickly as possible, particularly children. Of course, simplicity was yet another factor in the abandonment of old titles. As immigrants poured in from various European countries, many found their names to be difficult to pronounce and/or spell for many Americans, such as those names with many syllables, or with a large number of Z's.
Policies on immigrant assimilation
When considering immigrant assimilation it is important to consider why immigrants migrate. One reason immigrants migrated was The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act(IRCA), which legalized 2.3 million formally undocumented Mexican Immigrants. This Act freed these newly legalized immigrants from the fear of being apprehended, and it was found that many of these immigrants moved to states beyond the nearest U.S-Mexican border..
Modifications for assessing immigrant assimilation
Studies on immigrant assimilation in the 19th century and 20th century conclude that immigrants had a hard time catching up to the same human capital characteristics as native-born people in the 19th century, but studies in the 20th century suggest that immigrants eventually catch up to native born people. Timothy J. Hatton explains this puzzle on immigrant assimilation in the 19th century and in the 20th century. He explores how recent studies have been producing misleading results between the two. Hatton focuses his research on the specification of the earnings function.Hatton argues that that specification of the earnings function should be improved in two ways. First, immigrants who arrived as children should be treated separately from those who arrived as adults. Second, specification of the earnings function should be better approximate to the true shape of age-earnings profiles. Hatton points out that with these modifications , the patterns of immigrant earnings which have emerged make more sense with those of the 20th century and with traditional views on immigrant assimilation in the 19th century.
Owning a home and immigrant assimilation
Owning a home can be seen as a step into assimilation. William A.V. Clark explores this link in his book "Immigrants and the American Dream Remarking the Middle Class". Clark is aware that the process of assimilation is more than just being able to purchase a home. He argues that "homeownership" is one of the steps of assimilation, it is becoming part of the community and a neighborhood, and being a part of the daily activities that take place in a community.
Naturalization and immigrant assimilation
Other than marriage, Citizenship is one of the most significant factors in assimilation .The immigration debate focuses not only the number of immigrants who should be admitted, who should be allowed to be admitted but it is also looks at the processes of incorporation, and most importantly how citizenship should be extended and to whom it should be extended to. For example, should it be extended to those who arrive illegally. Allowing for naturalization of immigrants can create tension in assimilation. On one hand, those who favor the admission of immigrants input that these new residents will help build and enrich the American democratic process. However others argue that the nature and legitimacy of the nation may be challenged and perhaps even threatened.
New immigrant gateways and immigrant assimilation
Although it is changing, the overwhelming majority of immigrants still settle in traditional gateway states such as Florida, New York, California, Illinois, Texas, and Massachusetts. It has found that immigrants settle in traditional gateways where there are large populations of foreign-born people. Walters and Jimenez have illustrated the changes in the geographic distribution and the rates of growth of immigration in the United States. They show the number of foreign-born individuals in states where the foreign-born population grew by a factor of two or more between 1990 and 2000. Walters and Jimenez found that the largest percentage growth in the foreign-born population, was found in either the Midwest or the South in additional none of the traditional gateways were included in this large percentage growth. Walters and Jimenez noted that a reason these traditional gateways did not have an increase at the same rate of the new gateways was because, new gateways did not have many immigrants to begin with. Walters and Jimenez have argued that this new change in geography could possibly change the way researchers assess immigrant assimilation. They argue that these new gateways are unique and they propose that immigrant assimilation may be different from the experiences of immigrants in more traditional gateways in at least three ways. First, the long history of immigration in these established gateways means that the place of immigrants in terms of class, racial, and ethnic hierarchies in these traditional gateways are more structured or established on the other hand these new gateways do not have much immigration history therefore the place of immigrants in terms of class, racial, and ethnic hierarchies is less defined and immigrants may have more influence to define their position. Second, the size of new gateways may influence immigrant assimilation. Having a smaller gateway may influence the level of segregation among immigrants and native-born people. Third, the difference in institutional arrangements may influence immigrant assimilation. Traditional gateways unlike new gateways have many institutions set up to help immigrants which include legal-aid, bureaus, social organizations. Finally, Walters and Jimenez have only speculated that these differences may influence immigrant assimilation and the way researchers should assess immigrant assimilation.
22 February 2010
CulTuRaL AssiMiLaTioN
amalgamasi
A process that occurs when cultural or racial mix to form a new culture and race. key in determining how the process is to occur amalgamasi intermarriage between ethnic groups. amalgamasi theory expressed in the formula A + B + C = D. Here A, B, C represent the different ethnic groups and D represents the amalgam, a new group resulting from the unification of A, B, and C.
for example, ethnic groups existing practice mixed forming a new generation or new culture without following their original culture.
A process that occurs when cultural or racial mix to form a new culture and race. key in determining how the process is to occur amalgamasi intermarriage between ethnic groups. amalgamasi theory expressed in the formula A + B + C = D. Here A, B, C represent the different ethnic groups and D represents the amalgam, a new group resulting from the unification of A, B, and C.
for example, ethnic groups existing practice mixed forming a new generation or new culture without following their original culture.
21 February 2010
ASSIMILATION
Definations
- According to Keefe and Padilla, assimilation is the science, economic, and political intergation of the ethnic minority group in the mainstream society.
- For Gordon, assimilation process have become 7 subprocess, acculturation or behavioral assimilation, structural assimilation, marital assimilation, identification assimilation, attitude receptional assimilation, behavioural receptional assimilation, and civic assimilation.
- For Young and Mack, assimilation is blending of 2 previously distinct groups into one.
- According to Biesanz, assimilation is a social process whereby individuals or group come to share the same sentiments and goals.
- According Ogburth and Nimkoff, assimilation is the process whereby individuals or groups once dissimilar become to similar and identified in their interest and outlook.
- Bogardus has defined assimilation as a social process whereby attitudes of many person are united and thus develop into the united group.
- According to Keefe and Padilla, assimilation is the science, economic, and political intergation of the ethnic minority group in the mainstream society.
- For Gordon, assimilation process have become 7 subprocess, acculturation or behavioral assimilation, structural assimilation, marital assimilation, identification assimilation, attitude receptional assimilation, behavioural receptional assimilation, and civic assimilation.
- For Young and Mack, assimilation is blending of 2 previously distinct groups into one.
- According to Biesanz, assimilation is a social process whereby individuals or group come to share the same sentiments and goals.
- According Ogburth and Nimkoff, assimilation is the process whereby individuals or groups once dissimilar become to similar and identified in their interest and outlook.
- Bogardus has defined assimilation as a social process whereby attitudes of many person are united and thus develop into the united group.
01 February 2010
Acculturation
Acculturation is the exchange of cultural features that results when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first hand contact; the original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain distinct.
Despite definitions and evidence that acculturation entails two-way processes of change, research and theory have continued with a focus on the adjustments and changes experienced by minorities in response to their contact with the dominant majority.
Thus, acculturation can be conceived to be the processes of cultural learning imposed upon minorities by the fact of being minorities. If enculturationis first-culture learning, then acculturation is second-culture learning. This has often been conceived to be a unidimensional, zero-sum cultural conflict in which the minority's culture is displaced by the dominant group's culture in a process of assimilation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acculturation
Despite definitions and evidence that acculturation entails two-way processes of change, research and theory have continued with a focus on the adjustments and changes experienced by minorities in response to their contact with the dominant majority.
Thus, acculturation can be conceived to be the processes of cultural learning imposed upon minorities by the fact of being minorities. If enculturationis first-culture learning, then acculturation is second-culture learning. This has often been conceived to be a unidimensional, zero-sum cultural conflict in which the minority's culture is displaced by the dominant group's culture in a process of assimilation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acculturation
23 January 2010
ACOMODATION
acomodation various ethnic groups live independent practice but maintain their culture while living mixed with other ethnic groups. According to Ting Chew Peh (1987) using the representation A, B and C for culture, the concept can be summarized through acomodation formula A + B + C = A + B + C
http://melayumoden.com/?p=167
This situation have now happen in Malaysia.. Malaysia is one of the country that have multiraces. Generally, in Malaysia, there are 3 major races: malay, chinese, and indian. However, Malaysia also have minor races such as kadazan, bidayuh, murut, serani, and other else. This all races still can maintain their culture while living mixed with other races.
acomodation various ethnic groups live independent practice but maintain their culture while living mixed with other ethnic groups. According to Ting Chew Peh (1987) using the representation A, B and C for culture, the concept can be summarized through acomodation formula A + B + C = A + B + C
http://melayumoden.com/?p=167
This situation have now happen in Malaysia.. Malaysia is one of the country that have multiraces. Generally, in Malaysia, there are 3 major races: malay, chinese, and indian. However, Malaysia also have minor races such as kadazan, bidayuh, murut, serani, and other else. This all races still can maintain their culture while living mixed with other races.
16 January 2010
the process of integration before cultural assimilation
Segregation
"Racial segregation is characterized by separation of people of different races in daily life when both are doing equal tasks, such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a restroom, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home. Segregation may be de jure (Latin, meaning "by law")—mandated by law—or de facto (also Latin, meaning "in fact"); de facto segregation may even exist illegally. De facto segregation can occur when members of different races strongly prefer to associate and do business with members of their own race, though a segregationist regime may be maintained by means ranging from racial discrimination in hiring and in the rental and sale of housing, to vigilante violence such as lynchings."
In my opinion, this process has happen to Malaysia too. This can be prove it by refering to the history of Malaysia, when the British has come to Tanah Melayu. They have bring the imigrant from China and India to build up economy of Tanah Melayu. However, British has doing racial segregation to the Tanah Melayu with "pecah" and "perintah". In this racial segregation, British has let the imigrant from China at the town, imigrant from India at estet, and malay at the village.
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