Interviews would be in carriers' chosen language (English, Urdu, Punjabi, Mirpuri or Hindko—SA is a Pakistani researcher who is fluent in these languages). However, we encountered a number of problems in trying to carry out the study as planned, which in turn have implications for the way...
for example, is four times likelier to die in pregnancy or labour than a white woman. A man of Bangladeshiethnicityspends, on average, a decade less in good health than a white man. When the covid-19 virus struck, it killed ethnic minorities at twice the rate of ...
He started receiving tip-offs in 2011 and went to investigate. He noticed recurring court cases involving groups of predominantly Pakistani men grooming young, vulnerable white girls for sexual abuse in northern towns. A“culture of silence”facilitated the abuse, he found. A similar pattern of cr...
No, they are Pakistani and Bangladeshi respectively; however, they can be referred to as Desi. 14 Is Desi a nationality? No, Desi is not a nationality; it is a term signifying cultural connection to the Indian subcontinent. 10 Who can identify as Desi? Anyone with cultural roots from the...
is apparently also the case for people of Hispanic or African-American ethnicity. Effective solutions for preventing intimate partner abuse include providing economic opportunity, mentors, safety advocates, role models who are survivors of domestic violence, organized community programs for youth and ...
Abbas, who is Pakistani, 26 years old and a lawyer, provides an example. Born in Canada, Abbas’s parents divorced when he was still a child. Since then, he was brought up by his mother. He has never dated outside his religion and ethnicity. At the time of the interview, he was ...
Humans of New Yorkrecently featured a young Pakistani woman who describes her experience studying at a small college in Minnesota: “I never feel completely at ease because there are only three Pakistanis at my school, and I feel that everything I do reflects on my family, my religion, and...
The commission said that there were limited data on healthy life expectancy by ethnicity, but it cited a paper from Scotland using 2011 census data which showed that, despite having longer life expectancy than white people, women from Pakistani and Indian ethnic groups had a shorter healthy life...
This is the recipe: present only one guest that represents your narrative; allow the moderator to frame the discourse to fit that bias and never question the narrative; go so off theme of the actual topic that the talk is supposed to cover (in this case “On Western Media and Syria”);...
Redlining is the now-illegal discriminatory practice of denying credit to residents of certain areas based on their race or ethnicity. Sociologist John McKnight coined the term in the 1960s to describe maps that were created by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, a U.S. government agency, that...