Ethnic Minorities Comparative Study in Slovakia

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject Sociology - Political Sociology, Majorities, Minorities, grade: Bachelor Thesis, course: American History - Ethnic minorities, language: English, abstract: Abstract This paper examines the different approaches taken by the governments of Slovakia(former Czechoslovakia), and the United States of America in addressing the issues of minority rights of Afro-Americans in the USA compared to the Romanies in Slovakia. It explains and compares the historical events and political measures implemented by the governments in both countries that helped to form the attitudes of the majority citizens towards the integration of an ethnic minority group. The paper shows that although, both discriminatory in their efforts to tackle the minority rights, Slovakia and the USA applied much varying discriminatory measures which, as a consequence, led to contrary outcomes in terms of the economic and social statuses of both ethnic minorities.