scholarly journals Candidate Ethnicity and Vote Choice in Britain

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 883-905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Fisher ◽  
Anthony F. Heath ◽  
David Sanders ◽  
Maria Sobolewska
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
General Election ◽  
Vote Choice ◽  
Black Voters

This article develops and tests a set of theoretical mechanisms by which candidate ethnicity may have affected the party vote choice of both white British and ethnic minority voters in the 2010 British general election. Ethnic minority candidates suffered an average electoral penalty of about 4 per cent of the three-party vote from whites, mostly because those with anti-immigrant feelings were less willing to vote for Muslims. Ethnic minority voter responses to candidate ethnicity differed by ethnic group. There were no significant effects for non-Muslim Indian and black voters, while Pakistani candidates benefited from an 8-point average electoral bonus from Pakistani voters.

scholarly journals Comparing the Psychological Well-Being of the Manjo Ethnic Minority with the Non-Manjo Ethnic Group in Kaffa Zone, Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Bizuayehu Dengechi Dachachi ◽  
Nigatuwa Worku Woyessa ◽  
Fisseha Mikre Weldmeskel
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
Independent Study ◽  
Ethnic Minority Group ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Measurement Units ◽  
High Level

This study examined the level of psychological well-being between the Ethnic Minority group, commonly called “Manjo,” and the majority group called “Gomero.” Psychological well-being questionnaires were administered to a sample of 298 (independent sample from both groups). The findings demonstrated that the non-Manjo (Gomero) Ethnic group possessed a considerably high level of psychological well-being. Statistical differences were found in participants’ psychological well-being across Ethnic groups. According to the results, participants from the Manjo Ethnic Minority group had a lower level of psychological well-being (M = 211.27, SD = 17.51) compared to the majority (Gomero). A statistically significant variation in psychological well-being (theoretically embodied across a broad spectrum of measurement units) among the two independent study groups was reflected. 

Multilingualism, Identities and Language Hegemony

2020 ◽  
pp. 374-390
Author(s):  
Jing Li ◽  
Danièle Moore
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Students ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Multilingual Students ◽  
Social Positioning ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
Mandarin Language

This paper presents the findings from a case study of how five post-secondary ethnic multilingual students (three Bai and two Zhuang) at a local university in Southwestern China experience multilingualism and ethnic identities (de)construction and invest themselves in an active negotiation for legitimate membership in mainstream educational Discourses (Gee, 1990, 2012). The authors seek to understand how the perceived hegemony of Mandarin has impacted their social positioning and delegitimized their multilingual assets and ethnic identities in mainstream educational Discourses, and how they managed to negotiate their identities as ethnic multilinguals in different social Discourses. The authors argue that through the legitimate dominance of Mandarin, these students are not merely being positioned as members of a negatively stereotyped ethnic group but also concurrently participating in reconstructing the Mandarin language hegemony in those very Discourses, which runs the risk of further expanding the existing educational inequalities between Han and ethnic minority students..

scholarly journals Roma People in Slovakia: Building a Wall Around an Ethnic Minority

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Neven Andjelic
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Housing Condition ◽  
Running Water ◽  
Roma Population ◽  
Roma People

Slovakia, as multiethnic state, is home to significant Roma population making them third largest ethnic group in thecountry. Widespread discrimination in the society and inadequate state policies put many Roma in position ofunemployment, bad or no education, horrendous housing condition with no running water or electricity and otherinfrastructure, segregation and walled off communities. Europeanization of state policies might have changedlegislation but the practice is in many ways not affected.

Angry, Passionate, and Divided: Undecided Voters and the 2016 Presidential Election

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (9) ◽  
pp. 1056-1076 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Schill ◽  
Rita Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
General Election ◽  
Vote Choice ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
Campaign Messages ◽  
Election Coverage ◽  
Civil Discourse ◽  
Voter Choice ◽  
Early Primary

During the primary and general election, researchers Schill and Kirk collected focus group insights on how undecided voters came to make choices in the 2016 election. As consultants for CNN’s election coverage, the team researched voters from across the nation—in the early primary states to the conventions and general election. After a review of factors that influence vote choice, this article focuses on the dominant expressions of attitude (pain, loss, joy, nostalgia, pleasure, belonging, and anger) during 2016 election period and explains how voter attitudes toward those themes affected voter choice. Not only were these themes manifested in (un)civil discourse, they were often fueled by the campaigns. Importantly, these assessments come from the voters themselves and provide insights as to how the campaigns unfolded and how campaign messages attempted to influence voters.

scholarly journals Luzhitsky Ethnosaving Movement in the Revolution of 1848-1849

2018 ◽  
pp. 80-94
Author(s):  
E. Bevzyuk
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Cultural Activities ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Decisive Action ◽  
Revolution Of 1848 ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
The Revolution

The national and cultural activities of the Lusatian Serbs in the period of the revolution of 1848-1849 are one of the brightest and most controversial pages of the past of this small Slavic people ofGermany. During the revolution, the Lusatian Serbs, through their ideologues, with their locallyprovincial patriotism, were oriented towards supporting paternalistic relations with the royal authorities. To the main factors of the participation of the least numerous Slavic people in the revolutionary events of the middle of the XIX century national-cultural and ethnopolitical should be considered. During the revolution of 1848-1849, Serbs from the broad democratic program chose the path of humanization and moderate social liberalization. The first met the national and cultural needs of the people, and the second did not set the ethnic group in opposition to the monarchical power and democratic forces of Germany. In our opinion, the assumption of a possible ethnic minority of wider national rights or autonomy, subject to decisive action during the revolution, is unfounded. Already at the beginning of the XIX century the Lusatian Serbs ethnic group was a statistical minority in its ethnic region, which was divided between the two European states (Prussia and Saxony), therefore calls for more determined national requirements in ethnically mixed areas were not widespread, and the radicalization of thenational movement could lead to ethno-lateral consequences.

scholarly journals Authenticity of the Sign: Travels of a Lahu Song1

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (1-2-3) ◽  
pp. 83-102
Author(s):  
Judith Pine
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Material Feature ◽  
Modern Nation State ◽  
Positive Quality

This is a paper about a song which requires rather complex semiotic operations to be Lahu. The Wedding Oath song indexes, in different contexts, a desirable modern quality in a pre-modern society, a connection between an ethnic minority group and the modern state which implies obligations toward that ethnic group, and the positive quality of cosmopolitanism as a characteristic of a modern nation state. The nature of authenticity as a feature of these indexical relationships creates the possibility that one might extend Mendoza-Denton’s (2011) concept of “semiotic hitchhiker” to incorporate a non-material feature of a discursive performance.

APPROACHING DYNAMIC TEACHING IN REALITY OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING ORGANIZATIONS WHE\\RE ETHNIC MINORITY STUDENTS STUDY IN VIETNAM

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pham Thi Thuy Huyen
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Students ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Ethnic Minority Students ◽  
Training Institutions

This theory is not new to vocational training in Vietnam, but the nature of Dynamic Teaching is not well understood and applied by all the teachers in teaching process. More specifically, for vocational training institutions with ethnic minority students studying, Vietnamese language is also considered as a foreign language for them to integrate their study with the majority of students of Kinh ethnic group. At the same time, they try to master Vietnamese to integrate their study and learn English, so they have to face with much more difficulties than students of Kinh ethnic group. They need far more teachers who have the most effective teaching methods to help them overcome the difficulties in acquiring knowledge. At school, they not only need knowledge and related professional skills, but they also expect teachers to be equipped essential soft skills so that after graduation they can confidently integrate into labor market to have a stable job.

A Tale of Two Cities: Distinctiveness Theory and Advertising Effectiveness

1994 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohit Deshpandé ◽  
Douglas M. Stayman
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Advertising Effectiveness ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Advertising Context ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Majority Groups

The authors conducted an empirical study to test McGuire's (1984) distinctiveness theory within an advertising context. First, following the distinctiveness theory postulate, they found that members of minority groups were more likely than majority groups to have their ethnicity salient. Furthermore, in applying distinctiveness theory to persuasion, they found that members of minority (versus majority) groups find an ad spokesperson from their own ethnic group to be more trustworthy and that increased trustworthiness led to more positive attitudes toward the brand being advertised. The authors draw implications for both advertising to ethnic/minority groups as well as for further research applications of distinctiveness theory.

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