Muslim Community In Hong Kong

Due to their deficiency of proper schooling, they cannot obtain jobs that require any type of higher education. Thus, the drug dealers are left with service sector jobs that pay little over minimum wage. While some service sector jobs require manual labor skills, a large part of jobs require interpersonal skills—something the crack dealers are familiar with in the streets, but do not comprehend in an office setting. In particular, attitude is a key deciding factor of success or failure in the workplace. Since the drug dealers Bourgois writes about are so accustomed to street culture, they do not understand how to adjust their attitudes on the job.

Other pieces of Muslim architecture, such as the great Mosque of Djenne, are evidence of the religion’s dominance in Sub-Saharan Africa. Along the Indian Ocean trade routes, we also see Islam as a dominant religion, but there is much more of a variety. Evidence of Islam in Eastern Africa can be found in the language itself. Swahili, the dominant language of the region, is influenced heavily by Arabic. Buddhist traders from India and China spread the religion to some inhabitants of Eastern Africa.

They, however, only have a cultural citizenship. A cultural citizenship is a metaphor for those who know how to fit in with the natives and how to deal with the bureaucracy. This shapes their identity to them being one of the natives, but they still remain without legal citizenship. Therefore, they cannot take advantage of all the privileges that legal citizens can such as getting a driver license or a passport in the United States. A result of this is that they fall into a liminal identity where they become to feel lost and some feel unwanted.

The reason why many Americans refuse to take these jobs is that they are low paying and tedious. They would rather do minimal amounts of work for higher pay in the comfort of an office space rather than pick fruits, packaging food, or work at a steel mill. To quote Dwoskins article “Why Americans Won 't do Dirty Jobs,” Dwoskin states “Americans won’t fill them, thus, Americans are too soft.” This may not be entirely true, but according to unemployment rates and desperate employers, it might

Or should we remain as we are? We have to stop forcing foreigners to drop their culture because it does not fit in in our society. Egyptians often say, “You should fully integrate with the new habits in our country”. Just because an individual crossed some drawn lines upon a map never means that he or she should give up on his or her traditions. But in fact, they can keep their valuable traditions and add to them some new from us and in return we can learn from them new habits that are ethical as well as acceptable for us.

Many people desired to convert to Islam because of the way the religion refrained from brawls and raids. Therefore, the Muslim population increased and the religion thrived. All together, the appeal of the message resulted in the spread of

While a great number of Chinese people immigrated here, about ninety-five percent of them were men. To put that into perspective, San Francisco 's Chinese male population in 1850 was four thousand. The female population was only seven. There were many reasons women could not go to America with the main reason being the Page Law of 1875. This law prevented any woman from entering the United States, unless a wife of a business man due to the stereotype Americans had on Chinese women that they were all prostitutes (Wayne).

BENEFITS OF DIVERSITY IN NIGERIAN CONTEXT a. Ethnicity/Linguistic diversity: Nigeria is comprised of approximately two hundred and fifty ethno/linguistic groups. However, there are three major ethnic blocks; the other groups are generally referred as minority groups. The minority groups tend to be loosely affiliated to one of the three dominant groups. It is a well established business practice in Nigeria that if you wish to advertise a product you must take pain to be sensitive to the three dominant ethnic groups. Although English is the official language, more than half of the population do not understand and or speak formal English.

A particular society will shapes a person’s basic beliefs and values. For example, Malaysia is a multi-cultural country as there are three major ethics which are Malay, Chinese and Indian in Malaysia. Different ethnics have different culture and basic beliefs and values. As a Muslim, they have to follow the code of practice of Muslim in eating and drinking (Al-Islam.org, n.d.). Muslim are having halal food which is the food that comply with Islamic Law and do not contain any pork ingredients (KFC Malaysia, n.d.).

Worship is an important part of the religion of Islam. Worship (Ibaadah) is a term that includes everything that Allah would be pleased with. It represents the utmost love for Allah through submission. Prayers,zakaat,fasting,hajj,being kind towards others, maintaining relations with kin, doing good and staying away from doing evil, being beneficent to neighbours,to the poor people or orphans,supplication,reciting the holy Quran and such others are types of worship. An act of worship must obey these two circumstances: Firstly, it must conform to the orders of Allah’s Law as found in the Quran and Sunnah.