The Interplay of Race, Ethnicity, Popular Culture, and Social Change

This report delves into the intricate relationship between race, ethnicity, and popular culture, analyzing their combined influence on societal transformations. It examines how popular culture, shaped by shared beliefs and values, drives social change through various movements and trends. The report explores organizational culture, highlighting examples like gender equality and inclusivity, and its effect on employees and society. It also addresses the impact of cultural diversity, employee engagement, and technological advancements, showcasing how these factors contribute to evolving social dynamics and the reduction of cultural barriers. The report further discusses the impact of popular culture on employee engagement and the role of social media platforms in promoting connectivity and shaping societal views.

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RACE ETHNICITY AND POPULAR CULTURE
Race and ethnicity are the two interrelated concept of society which adversely affects or
develops popular culture within society and community. Common cultural beliefs and
considerations have been revolving around some specific race and ethnicity (Bolin and Kurt,
2018). Effect of popular culture can be highly useful in promoting a social change This report
will focus on some popular culture with the inclusion of race, ethnicity, and its impact on a social
change promotion. This report will also lay emphasis on some popular organizational culture as
popular culture mainly consist of perspectives, ideas, artifices, images in the mainstream of
present culture. Some famous parts of popular culture can be race, community, people's attitude,
profession etc. This assignment will also explain the effect of organizational culture their effect
on their employees as well as on society. In this report some negative impacts of popular culture
on society will also be explained.
How has popular culture been used to promote social change?
Popular culture is mainly defined as the increasing interest of people or society in a specified
region or areas or values. It is mainly influenced by the beliefs of people regarding a particular
culture, group of same community, thinking of other influential people.
Popular culture may be different for different countries and geographical area and can be directly
related to the interests of population related to a specific ideology. It is a set of cultural beliefs
that would be affected by the relevant state of mind for people. Culture has a significant effect on
the society and can be highly effective for promoting any societal change. These societal changes
reflect significant revolutionary alteration that have become significant part of the history. There
were number of movements that has been contributed in social change in different parts of the
world. History has numerous of examples which supports the facts that every cultural or trends
tend to have a significant impact on social change. Such actions of promoting social alterations
were highly affected by popular culture of that time period ( EHM., 2017 ).
Social change can be derived and implemented by the involvement of different types of models
and approaches.

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Organizational or corporate popular culture
For example in terms of corporate businesses and organizations, the popular culture that is
continuously developing in is to provision of equal rights for men and women, no gender
discrimination or biases. This popular culture helps to promote a feeling of equality within
organizations. It has provided enough support to build a shared and common approach to treat
women and men equally. Apart from the inclusion of gender pay equality, global businesses are
developing functions of promoting equal rights to the disabled person as well. Many countries
are reluctant of giving equal rights to women within organizations ( Bolin and Kurtz., 2018 ). For
example, as per the African corporate culture, women are not promoted or considered for leading
a team or opting for an executive position. For reducing the concept of ethnic, race
discrimination and governments has also laid down the emphasis on the provision for different
legal frameworks that has altered organizational systems and beliefs.
Apart from the context of corporate sector, there are other popular culture as well that are
persisting in society which highly promotes the need of social change ( Hannah Payne and et.al.,
2015 ). For example, due to increased awareness, people are getting more open and participative
in the discussions related to menstruation, AIDS, pregnancy. People have started promoting
awareness related to issues elementary clinical issues. This changed and popular culture have
raised the quality of clinical care at global level and increased the medical quality. The culture of
maintaining high of ethical practices have been increased due to increased awareness of service
users. Moreover, the culture of medical tourism has also been introduced, where patients from
different race and ethnicity are treated equally. This developing culture in clinical or medical
sector have developed an effective model of social change for patients from different cultures
and health carers as well.
Similarly, another popular culture which is in trend are various campaigns run to increase the
awareness regarding social crimes against women and female. Campaign such as “Me Too
movement” was introduced to reduce the number of crimes that are increasing against women. It
is also driving a change among females regarding raisin the voice against crimes. It has delivered
an idea of adopting an outspoken nature of women for different type of harassment that they
faced ( Damaske, Bratter and Frech., 2017 ).

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In addition to this, due to this promoting culture the psychology of public is getting affected in
terms of increased participations, sensitivity for different religious beliefs and other similar
components of humanistic behaviour. Youths are becoming highly sensible in terms of
respecting and engaging with people from different race and ethnicity. People are continuously
participating.
Another trend in culture which is continuously increasing among society is developing and
promoting minority group or community of countries. For examples the minority population of
Australia, the aboriginal group and other communities are receiving high amount of support from
the government and local bodies. Mainstream people of Australia have started accepting them
and respects regional culture and languages. Similarly, America also have different range of
culture and ethnicity like beliefs of Native Americans are different to that of African, Hispanic
and Asian Americans ( Malina., 2015 ). Due to increased cultural barriers, communities were
facing different severe issues like discrimination on the basis of race and ethnicity and other
beliefs. Due to the development of the laws like Civil Rights Act, 1964, a social change has
started to be introduced. Such type of social change has provided sufficient suitable frameworks
for a country to develop with uniformity and sustainability.
Geographic origins of the people do not affect their relationships with peer groups due the
changing nature and views of their language and people from different cultural interests. Due to
such type of connections, the awareness of different culture has been increased due to these
connections. There are number of advancements that are being made by different sectors to
facilitate population with different ethnicity. Every sector is developing its services based on the
likings of various ethnicities and races. Ranging from corporate businesses to other sectors such
as clothing and other market sectors. Hospitality sector have also increasing its services with
respect to various racial and ethinitial concerns of the people from different countries ( Shrestha
and Makaju., 2018 ).
Due to increased culture of globalization, countries have increased their communication and
relations among one another. The system of diffusion and globalization have not only increased

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the business activities but also promoted various ways to reduce cultural barriers among different
countries. People have now started being respecting all religions and traditions and have started
getting involved in one another's lifestyle systems. Furthermore, the concept of multidimensional
culture has also being increasing in US which may show that the social changes have increased
the acceptability of diverse group among US population.
A popular culture which is increasing these days is to eradicate the tradition of comparing beauty
of women on the basis of their complexion. This culture of non-discrimination of women's
beauty on the basis of their complexion have started reflecting into number of advertisements,
movies and videos ( Nirmala., 2018 ). This culture is promoting a social change of reducing the
discrimination of women as per their skin colour. This trend has criticised such ideology of
people and promotes brown skin colour.
Along with it, culture of technological advancement has also supported the activities related to
social change. This culture has effectively incorporated the fact that geographical boundaries for
supporting social change have been reduced due to these cultures. Now engagement within
different communities is being increasing sue to increased technological platforms. Due to the
development of this innovative technological trends, the connectivity among people from
different ethnicity have been increased. This will increase the harmony and integrity among
different communities and people of with different cultures ( Dillip and et.al., 2018). Platforms
of Social media has also become one of the popular cultures throughout the globe. People have
started different tools and feature of social media to express their feelings and present their
thoughts to public. This culture of adopting social media platforms have also been increased
within organizations for conducting different business activities. Companies have upscaled the
level of recruitment, selections, market analysis, examining level of competitors through various
social media tools.
Popular culture effects the society in various other ways as well. First effect of popular culture is
the way it strengthens and build interaction with individuals who are in the same kind of thing.
Events such as comic con also helps in strengthening and building bonds among people of
different background. Popular culture helps the people to grow and become more acceptable in

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terms of representing various genres in popular culture. It helps people to become more
acceptable to changes, become more creative and also helps in expanding their imaginative
horizon. It also helps people in increasing their self confidence, increase their artistic culture,
earn money by using their talent and by showcasing their work. This popular culture has helped
the society to bring innovation in business such as nowadays there are many themed restaurants
that are based upon some kind of culture like friend’s cafe is based upon friendship culture.
Popular culture has also helped in bringing changes in thinking of the society. People have
become more open minded and aware about their surroundings due to which many people have
started to protest against all the wrong things done in the society. In other words, popular culture
has helped in current generation more dynamic, acceptable, vocal about all the injustice
happening in the society as well as helped in protesting against all the issues that plague the
society.
Effect of cultural diversity on society
Cultural differences within individuals or a group affects the response of an individuals in terms
of their education, willingness of accepting any information and ways to incorporate those ideas
or information into their lifestyle. Changes in even individual education affects the cultural
dimensions which further bring changes in the society. There are various changes in cultural
diversity that affects the social changes in various ways such as: integration of refugees or
disabled people boost social changes like willingness of members of society to cooperate with
each other. Cultural or inter-cultural education helps in bring changes in education system of the
society. Welfare cost, increasing health benefits also helps in increasing well-being and health of
the society. Popular culture such as: building social cohesion, forecasting civic participation
affects the society as well as social behaviour.
Impact of popular culture on employee engagement
Corporate world is also a part of society. Changes in organizational culture bring changes in
social culture as well. There are various types of popular culture in corporate world that affect
the employment engagement. In other words' employee engagement is strongly affected by the
organizational culture as well as by their jobs. In order for the employee to understand what is
being expected from them, what they need to do company need to strengthen their organizational
culture. As it will help the employee to positively engage themselves within the company
(Walker, Palermo and Klassen., 2019 ). As it is already known that even employees of an

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organization are a part of society so all the changes in organizational culture will affect the
overall changes in an employee which will indirectly affect the changes in the society. Positive
organizational culture affects the employees in various ways such as increases their positivity in
their work, learn new skills, develop creativity in their work in solving problems etc.
organizational culture basically reflects the environment, behaviour and values of people, rituals
and language of all the employees working at a workplace.
One of the most popular culture is opportunity and willingness to start a start-up firm also helps
in bring social changes in society by increasing innovation and creativity in individuals.
Negative impact of popular culture:
Apart from the positive aspect of popular culture, there are certain negative impact of it which is
highly devastating by nature. Terrorists and related organizations are continuously spreading
their misdeed and threats all over the world by the help of social media platforms. Misuse of
social media platforms have also been increased which is promoting a negative social change
among people. Moreover, public have also started using social media platforms for expressing,
influencing public for a significant and specific community. This has mould the connectivity,
trusts level and relations of people of different cultures on one another. In addition to this,
international bodies and organizations have initiated to facilitate general people to safeguard
them by providing different digital and technological safety protocols. Therefore, there is a
negative impact of popular culture in promoting social changes within communities ( Baum and
et.al., 2018 ).
Sometimes race ethnicity becomes one of the main reason for discrimination. Many times
based on the colour of an individual they are discriminated from any activity, from society etc.
Not only this many times based on menstruation among women, aids become main reasons due
to which discrimination among people occurs. For this today many campaigns have been
developed which help both men and women with such discriminations, helps in raising
awareness among men and women regarding birth control. Today cultural diversity has become
one of the main topic and is considered in many ways. Many times this becomes a main reason
for discrimination as well. For example many times Islam religion people get accursed for
terrorism or based on their dressing they are accused for many things. Many people tend to avoid

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such religion people and discriminate them. Today many campaigns are being done to change
this mentality of people and such discrimination can be avoided.
Following campaigns have been organized which are trying to address all the above three
issues so that they can be minimized. Campaigns to reduce stereotype in workplace and even in
society are being organized. Such as CAP has published guidelines and banned stereotypes that
can cause harm or can create offence and campaign regarding it is organized which says that
“harmful gender stereotypes should be banned”. This campaign has helped in reducing ethnicity,
gender related stereotypes at workplace. As explained above that most of the people hesitate to
talk about aids, mensuration etc. and are least aware about birth control So for this many
campaigns such as “birth control campaigns”, “public health campaigns” are being organized.
This has helped in increasing health awareness which has further helped in reducing aids patients
and has also helped in increasing health awareness. To reduce effect of cultural diversity many
campaigns such as “do one thing” this campaign focuses on reducing diversity and its effects in
society. All these campaigns are playing a major role in addressing such issues in various ways.
With the popular trend of globalization, the security among local and mainstream people
have been increased. Native populations of different countries have started feeling insecure at
their own residential counties due to the entrances of new talents from various different parts of
globe. It can be a negative impact of popular culture which is promoting an undesirable factors to
social change. Due to such insecurities, the introduction and execution of certain movements like
the Chinese Execution Act of 1882 tend to be promoted.
Due to increasing cross border communication and exchange of people from different countries,
introduction to different types of diseases health issues have been increased. This has increased
the opportunities to develop healthcare and clinical assessments and systems at global level.
Along with these clinical concerns, ethical and racial wars are the most common results and
outcomes of the negative effect of popular culture. There may be significant cases that has been
highly related with the fact that homogeneity in races and ethnicity may not be supportive
enough for peace and harmony. With homogeneity, there must be the inclusion of shared
approaches among people to increase social values and to reduce the disadvantages of cultural
barriers. Lastly it can be said that popular culture affects the society both positively and
negatively and due to which more social changes are brought in the society.

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CONCLUSION
From the above study it has been summarized that there are various kinds of trendy cultures that
are continuously supporting model of social changes within communities. It has also described
the fact that the feminist theory has been developed in countries which is helping in reducing the
level of crimes against women. Along with it, the study has also described that globalization has
also imparted a significant support to societal changes. The report has also focused on the culture
of using social media and its negative effect on the community.

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