What is a minority group?

Wikipedia define a minority as a "sociological group that does not constitute a politically dominant voting majority of the total population of a given society." There are a lot of minority groups, for example "economic minorities", "age minorities" or sexual minorities.

Economic minorities
The term: economic minorities describes a social group which has a lot of working poor or unemployed people.

Age minorities
The age minority contain a group of people with the same age. That could be old people or young people like children.

Sexual minorities
To this group counts lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.

Introduction

My current big topic in school is: Social classes and minorities. I think in our global world is this a very important subject. In all countries are minorities and social classes. Moreover minorities are often in a other social class, most lower, than the most of the other habitants of a country. This is a big problem and tends to result in unemployment and crime.

This shows us, that immigration is a big and necessary part in our society. I am going to write a few articles about the subject and hope you enjoy them.

The problems of deforestation

Since a unacceptable time, people destroys our forests. This is a big problem, because the forest, particularly the tropical rainforest, absorb carbon dioxide. No forest, no absorption and this means on the other hand global warming. Not only the global warming is a problem, that is caused thru deforestation, but also the destruction of the animal habitats is terrible.

A cause for the deforestation is the demand for fuels, for example the West's demand for biofuel. The farmer cuts down forests and build there crops such as maize/corn and palms, which are principal constituents of biofuel.

Failed

Fail is popular word in my german class. It sounds a lot better than the german word "versagen". I failed in my english subject. Last july I told you about my "2" grade in english, now a half year later I will get only 8 points, that means a "3". This downgrade is very terrible.

But in fairness I must say, that I haven't do anything for a better grade. My last post was in october, now we have january. And I must change that.

In a few day I will write a vocabulary test (in the last test I got only 6 points from 15). So I will learn more and write often here in this blog.

The topic is currently "Save the Planet!"

Shopaholics

In my opinion the most of the shopaholics are women. I understand under a shopaholic a person who love shopping. If shopaholics have a bad mood, they go shopping. They buy and are happy, at least for a short time.

The self esteem of this persons are most very low. With shopping they try to compensate it.

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Interesting Sources:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/big_spender/3393939.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/8173271.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/nov/26/tracymcveigh.theobserver

Facts about Compulsive shoppers, Impulsive shoppers, bargain shoppers and window shoppers

There are at least four different types of shoppers. I want to present you these four types. These four types I want to present you. About Shopaholics, I want write a extra article, after this.

Compulsive shoppers or Shopaholics
Compulsive shoppers have to buy something. Buying is for their a thing like to brush their teeth or eat something. It is a need, that they must do every day! If they have not enough money, they get very fast a big problem, because the force to buy is very strong.

Impulsive shoppers
Impulsive shoppers doesn't plan what they want to buy. They can go from product to product for hours, without buying something. Then, short time before they leave the store, they buy one, two, three or more articles.

Bargain shoppers
Bargain Shoppers spend money, but save money too. They love coupons, discounts, end-of-season sales and bargain racks. Bargain Shopper drives hundred of miles only to save the one or other percentage.

Window shoppers
Window shoppers looking for hours without buying something. They rarely buy. The most of the fascination of buying a new think, takes place in the mind of the window shoppers.

6 minutes english - Shopaholics

Today I want point to the 6 minutes english Podcast, which you can find in the right navbar on this site. The topic is this week shopaholics. Thats quite awesome, because this is one topic for my next class test on wednesday - tomorrow. I must write more than three hours (!) about "The changing patterns of work and consumption". The test includes questions, which I must answer, a graph, which I must describe an a translation.

If you missed the 6 minutes english - Shopaholics, you can hear the podcast episode here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/2009/10/091015_6min_shopaholics_page.shtml

It is a interesting topic, because there are four different types of shoppers: Compulsive shoppers, impulsive shoppers, bargain shoppers and window shoppers. I will describe all shopper in a new post.

Interesting is the percentage of Shopaholics. After some sources there are 10% of the population are shopaholics