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Topic: Minority group

In the News (Sat 22 Nov 08)

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	AAMC Statement on Medical Education of Minority Group Students
		This long-term plateau indicates that if the progress achieved in providing access for more minorities to pursue careers in medicine is to continue, educational institutions, the federal government, and philanthropic organizations must reaffirm their commitment to the education of underrepresented minorities for careers in medicine as a national goal.
		Minority students, thus motivated, prepared and recruited, should be provided with the necessary encouragement and support to ensure their retention in and graduation from medical schools.
		The person designated for this role should be a member of a minority group and should work closely with the AAMC Group on Student Affairs to represent the medical school in the activities of the Group on Student Affairs' Minority Affairs Section.
	www.aamc.org /students/minorities/minoritystatement.htm (588 words)

	Group Psychotherapy - Ethnocultural Considerations in Group Psychotherapy
		Minority patients may have a strong authority transference to therapists while the latter may respond to such a group member in a negative fashion or over-protectively, depending on their counter-transference.
		In the group not all the negative reactions to the therapist are transferential.
		Group therapy conducted with the knowledge and acceptance of other ethnic groups and cultures and sensitive to their values enables visible and ethnic minorities to relate better to others, improve their own self esteem and retain a sense of self respect and autonomy.
	www.group-psychotherapy.com /articles/salvendyj01.htm (4853 words)

	Jim Cummins: Empowering Minority Students
		Educational failure is regarded by the dominant group as the natural consequence of the minority group's inherent inferiority.
		Minority groups that maintain a strong sense of pride in their own language and culture or who have not internalized mixed feelings about their own culture and the dominant group tend not to experience school failure.
		Minority students school performance is also helped when the children's communities (especially their parents and extended family) are involved with running their children's school.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~jar/Cummins.html (2944 words)

	ESRC Society Today - R000223688 Associative Learning of Minority Group Stereotypes
		It finds that negative feelings about minority group members are directly influenced by their feelings of majority group members.
		It was found that altering the proportion of the sizes of the two groups in the experiment had a clear effect.
		It was found that altering the ratio of majority to minority group statements also influenced the size of the effect.
	www.esrc.ac.uk /ESRCInfoCentre/Plain_English_Summaries/governance_and_citizenship/participation/index223.aspx?ComponentId=9801&SourcePageId=11722 (554 words)

	Online Ethics Center: Minority Attrition out of Sci&Eng. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Minority group students were almost evenly divided between switchers and non-switchers, with slightly more non-switchers (55%) than switchers.
		For minority students, the belief that they are a disappointment to their family may keep them from making a switch to a major that holds more interest for them or to one for which they are better qualified.
		Minority programs at the institutions examined were designed to recruit, assist, and retain students in pursuit of college degrees.
	onlineethics.org /div/abstracts/attrition-minority.html (1587 words)

	Minority Women's Health Concerns (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Of this minority population, 36.4% have elevated blood pressure, in contrast to 19.7% of White women.
		These minority women are more likely to be blinded, become amputees, develop end-stage renal impairment, and die from diabetes than are their White counterparts.
		Among minority women, depression may be worsened by factors such as low education and income levels, lack of employment, acculturation difficulties for immigrants, marital and family problems, racism, and single parenthood.
	www.4woman.gov /owh/pub/minority/concerns.htm (5933 words)

	minority - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		- smaller group: a group of people or things that is a small part of a much larger group
		Minority Group, group of people sharing common ethnic, racial, or religious backgrounds, especially when constituting a comparatively small...
		Minority Leader, leader of the minority party (the political party which has had the smaller number of representatives elected) in a legislature,...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=minority (129 words)

	minority. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Religious minorities were known from ancient times, but ethnic minorities did not become an issue in European politics until the rise of nationalism in the 19th cent.
		The minority group sought to establish its own culture as a national identity, either by incorporating with a nearby country that shared its identity or, if none existed, by seceding and forming its own nation.
		Communist nations have traditionally asserted that they have no such difficulties because all ethnic groups are allowed full expression; this was belied by the crucial role that was played by minority national groups in the breakup of the Soviet Union.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mi/minority.html (571 words)

	Council on Epidemiology and Prevention Minority Travel Grant
		The candidate must be a minority by the standard NIH definition: He or she belongs to a minority group underrepresented in biomedical and behavioral science careers, based on their minority group's representation in the total population.
		Asians are not considered to be an underrepresented minority.
		The candidate must hold an academic (or equivalent) rank below associate professor (e.g., assistant professors, instructors, postdocs, fellows and students). If the candidate is a faculty member, he or she must be within the first five years of the faculty appointment.
	www.americanheart.org /presenter.jhtml?identifier=3039489 (392 words)

	Vietnam Ethnic Group, Vietnam minority people, 54 ethnic minority people living in Vietnam, Vietnam Tours, Vietnam ...
		Although they speak different languages, the ethnic groups live close to one another and so one group can know the language of others through everyday relations, and although they are involved in cultural exchange, they keep retaining the identity of their own culture.
		The diversity of the cultures of ethnic groups does not take them off the track of the common development of the nation, just as the peculiarity is in tune with the generality in the dual category of philosophy.
		The number of cadres of ethnic groups having graduated from university or higher degree is on the increase.
	www.hotelvietnamonline.com /culture/ethnic_groups.htm (920 words)

	Women as a Minority Group - Helen Mayer Hacker (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In defining the term "minority group," the presence of discrimination is the identifying factor.
		A person who on the basis of his group affiliation is denied full participation in those opportunities which the value system of his culture extends to all members of the society satisfies the objective criterion, but there are various circumstances which may prevent him from fulfilling the subjective criterion.
		But before concluding that a different scale must be constructed when the dominant group attitude toward a minority group which is being tested is that of men toward women, the question may be raised as to whether marriage in fact represents the point of minimum social distance.
	www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/courses/womminor.html (5766 words)

	MINORITY GROUP
		Minority group is distinguished by being on the margins of power, status or the allocation of resources within the society.
		Among the minorities, about one-half of the subjects had not explored their ethnicity (diffusion/foreclosure); about one-quarter were involved in exploration (moratorium); and about one-quarter had explored and were committed to an ethnic identity (ethnic identity achieved).
		Abstract.—In a survey of 686 minority group families, there were 97, or 14 pet cent of the total sample, who had tried to move into white neighborhoods.
	sociologyindex.com /minority_group.htm (1205 words)

	Press kit: Issues - Multi-ethnic States and the Protection of Minority Rights - World Conference Against Racism
		The active engagement of a minority group in developing and implementing projects helps to ensure that they do not inadvertently create or perpetuate dependency and passivity on the part of the intended beneficiaries.
		It includes a list of rights that minorities are entitled to, including the right to enjoy their own culture without interference, and the right to participate effectively in decisions at the national level, among others.
		It serves as the focal point of the United Nations in the field of minority protection and is the main forum for constructive dialogue on the treatment of minorities by Governments.
	www.un.org /WCAR/e-kit/minority.htm (2782 words)

	Terralingua Definition -- minority
		Short definition: "a group which is smaller in number than the rest of the population of a State, whose members have ethnic, religious or linguistic features different from those of the rest of the population, and are guided, if only implicitly, by the will to safeguard their culture, traditions, religion or language.
		In most definitions of minority, minority rights thus become conditional on the acceptance by the State of the existence of a minority in the first place, i.e., only exo-definitions (see this definition entry) of minorities are accepted.
		One benefit of endo-definitions is that even groups who have lost the mother tongue as a result of (forced) assimilation can still claim minority or indigenous status, because "language" is not necessarily part of an endo-definition.
	www.terralingua.org /Definitions/DMinority.html (1051 words)

	Minority Commercial Broadcast Ownership Overview
		Historically, minority broadcast owners and advocates for minority broadcast ownership have argued that this underrepresentation is due to the lack of access to investment capital and the lack of policies and incentives designed to promote minority ownership in the telecommunications industry.
		Minority owners have argued that comparative hearings require that they expend an inordinate amount of time and money that may not result in securing ownership and that their chances of securing ownership have been lessened by the removal of this credit.
		Minority owners reported to MTDP that the full impact of this Congressional decision cannot be measured adequately until more research is done to show how many deals were lost and how many preliminary negotiations for deals ceased as a direct result of the tax certificate rescission.
	www.ntia.doc.gov /reports/97minority/overview.htm (2222 words)

	Minority Group Relations
		Minority groups are commonly made up of a racial, religious or ethnic population.
		Minority groups are highly conscious of their own group existence.
		is a social system which operates by the dominant racial or ethnic group using the minority group to achieve its ends under the supposition that the minority group requires the guidance and help of the superior dominant group.
	www.tomcravens.com /minority.html (425 words)

	Smit: Attitudes to English: the influence of minority group membership
		Quantitatively, as the socio-politcal minority group was only marginally smaller than its majority counterpart (and, thinking of the larger groups they represent, the minority group is by far more numerous), while the ethnolinguistic minority group was made up of 17 people only compared to the over 100 of the equivalent majority group.
		The opposite was the case for the second minority group, whose members were completely emerged in the majority group and, if they wanted to be accepted by their class-peers had to integrate themselves, as far as possible, into the majority’s world-understanding and attitude structure.
		The attitudes revealed by the socio-political minority group thus show that these informants had already internalised the destabilisation of the century-old power hierarchy and anticipated the complete turn-around in the power distribution to be legalised a year later.
	www.und.ac.za /und/ling/archive/smit-01.html (3135 words)

	Recruiting and Retaining Minority Nursing Faculty - Featured Stories
		Because there are still so few minority and male nursing professors, nursing schools that hope to increase the diversityof their faculty face stiff competition and steep challenges.
		Recruiting minority and male faculty will be particularly difficult if the school has had an all-white or all-female teaching force for years, or if it's perceived as being too large and impersonal.
		Established minority faculty members can also be lured away by nursing schools that have demonstrated a strong and sincere interest in minority health issues.
	www.minoritynurse.com /features/faculty/02-17-04a.html (2325 words)

	Are Issues of Equity in Mathematics the Same across Racial, Ethnic, Class, and Gender Boundaries?
		Although, when looked at from a general perspective, it seems that obstacles to success experienced by ethnic minorities and lower SES members are the same as those experienced by women in mathematics, solutions appropriate for the former are not necessarily appropriate for the latter.
		Stanic and Hart break these groups down even further, noting that none of these groups is independent and each individual is affected by membership in many varied groups (gender, ethnic, and SES), not to mention the massive effects of individual differences.
		There sample size was far too small to make generalizations about any given "group," but the strong variance in their measurements of attitude, achievement, persistence and correlation between these measures showed how membership in one group does not necessarily determine how one thinks or acts.
	www.mste.uiuc.edu /hill/papers/issues.html (728 words)

	Academic Forum: Coming Together to Succeed - Featured Stories
		The group members appointed the original student president, and she consulted with the faculty advisor and the Learning Enhancement Center coordinator to set an agenda.
		The group helped orient the faculty toward the needs and learning styles of minority students, which encouraged instructors to adapt their teaching styles to help students succeed.
		Initially, the students in the group should be close enough in culture and experience that they feel comfortable talking with each other and sharing their feelings.
	www.minoritynurse.com /features/undergraduate/02-14-01f.html (1359 words)

	minority
		Since minorities reside in the remote area and usually poor, Chinese government has preference policy to provide training for the minorities to progress, govern and manage.
		Tajik is one of the oldest minority groups in China.
		Lubao is one of the smallest ethnic minority groups in China.
	www.index-china.com /minority/minority-english.htm (2663 words)

	Sun.Star Davao - Minority councilors snub City Council revamp
		Among the reasons of minority councilors for declining the offer is that they're not suited for the committees and that they don't know what to do in the committees assigned to them.
		Dayanghirang said as a member of the minority bloc he was able to see the importance of fiscalizers in the City Council.
		But, despite the decision of the minority to decline the offer of the majority, they all vowed to support the leadership of Vice Mayor Luis Bonguyan in the City Council, as well as City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/dav/2006/06/14/news/minority.councilors.snub.city.council.revamp.html (817 words)

	The Tech - Minority group finishes second study
		In the case of minority students, it is especially important that such services address the problems cited by the 1986 Racial Climate Report, according to the MSIG.
		The Admissions Office can increase the attractiveness of MIT to minority students, the report says, by providing them with personal contact with MIT personnel and students, and by ensuring that they are aware of special awards and programs for minority students.
		Admissions decisions on minority applicants might be made early in order to provide more time for the aid application process to occur, the report suggests.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V109/N20/msig.20n.html (965 words)

	Pols 350 Group and Minority Politics Course Syllabus, UWEC
		Thus, as citizens and students of government and politics, it is important to have a thorough understanding of interest groups, the role they play in the American political system, and the consequences of interest group power.
		With an informed appreciation of group power, we can better address the harmful effects of "special interests" and achieve a democracy in which more voices are heard.
		The main section of your paper should identify the primary interest groups involved in the policy fight, their views on the policy, and the specific actions taken by the groups to influence the outcome of the debate.
	www.uwec.edu /freitard/GroupAndMinority/CourseSyllabus00.htm (956 words)

	The Youthhood - Understanding the Minority Group Model
		The message of the minority group model is that people with disabilities are strong and know what they want and need, but often are held back because of discrimination from others.
		The minority group model has also encouraged people with disabilities to branch out from the parents’ movement and reminded them that their parents may not always know what is best for them.
		As it grew and had success, this group began to work for change in the Berkeley community by asking for things like curb cuts for wheelchairs, accessible apartments and other housing options for people with disabilities, and a bus system that would be accessible for all people with disabilities.
	www.youthhood.org /government/dh_minority.asp (596 words)

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