Different groups of people are classified based on their race and ethnicity. Race is concerned with physical characteristics, whereas ethnicity is concerned with cultural recognition. Race, on the other hand, is something you inherit, whereas ethnicity is something you learn. The connection of race, ethnicity,...
Before I studied in the United States, I never realized that there are many obvious characteristics of our British people. Our way of thinking is also different from that of the United States. In a word, the most important characteristic is to use two words...
All politics in the Middle East is closely connected with issues of identity, though this is not unique to the region. The nature of politics as an inherently social process, and identity as both a personal and social expression of affiliation, keeps the two inseparable....
Race and ethnicity has always been a somewhat difficult topic for me to view in a positive light. I grew up having my mother ingrained my ethnicity as a child in case anybody asked. As I got older, I realized it could've been a form...
The term ‘identity’ is vaguely defined or given a specific definition which means that we, as people, are constantly on this quest for identity, a validation of who we are. We do not want to be influenced or touched by society’s ideas or its ways...
Cultural identity influences every characteristic of a person, both outward and inward. My cultural identity consists of various factors. I was born and raised in the United States, specifically in Tennessee. While I was born in Nashville, I lived most of my life in Athens....
I'm a multicultural person living in the United States. Born in the Philippines; I was wrongly recognized as a Latino in my school from time to time. Both of my parents are Filipino, and I both speak fluent English and Tagalog, but I don't speak...
The foundation of cultural awareness and intelligence is understanding the definition of culture and how it influences the mind and body. The definition of culture is broad as culture contains many subjective and objective elements. Culture includes language, knowledge, beliefs, art, music, morals, law, customs...
Since ancient times, humans are looking for communication, no person can live alone, as a man by nature tends to mingle. The environments where humans live are different, and therefore their cultures vary. Culture forms human, their behavior, and identity. Culture is their way of...
Cultural differences are the most undermined aspect of working in a culturally rich environment. It is experienced initially as a Culture shock caused by the varying beliefs, values, demographics, and other such characteristics within a group. It is highly essential to address culture shocks caused...
Intercultural experience has introduced me to new ideas, revealed layers of concepts I was previously familiar with, and modified my original perceptions of particular notions. The course has allowed me to re-establish my feelings, thoughts, and opinions comprehensively, by encouraging reflection on my instinctive communicative...
An interview was conducted over a local American born and raised in Indiana. The interview session took place at the Purdue Fort Wayne campus and was conducted two times in order to get a sufficient amount of information about her personal culture. No challenges were...
It is very likely that parents will decorate the baby room with pink if they have a baby girl and decorate the room with blue if they have a baby boy. Girls are expected to be polite and emotional while boys are expected to be...
For this Culture Interview project, I interviewed a 43-year-old co-worker (not named to respect her wishes) who lived in China for fifteen years; however, she now currently living here in America. Examples of Norms Norms are rules developed for appropriate behavior based on specific values...
People acquire the necessary components of language, customs, and values of their new cultural environment. Managing one’s identification with host and ethnic cultures are required for survival and functioning in the receiving society (Chen, Benet-Martinez, Wu, Lam & Bond, 2013). This report aims to measure...
After finishing the intercultural communication competence (ICC) course, I learnt a huge amount of knowledge through some specific examples from various countries. This course goes in details with definition, categorization, patterns and effects of intercultural communication. In the eyes of academic study, phenomena are analyzed...
We will utilize the one-shot case study pre-experimental design with Afghan males to find out whether the level of acculturation has an effect on their level of depression in their first five years of arrival to the United States. According to Rubin and Babbie (2018),...
Imagine living in a different country than what where you were born and grew up in. Now imagine if most people in that country spoke a different language and expected you to learn that language with little to no help. This can have a major...
Coming into the world as a newborn, we are exposed to many things, such as; food, clothing, language, a brand-new environment, etc. These are the things that later in life will determine many experiences/opportunities that one will need to endure. As a newborn, one does...
Today, currently we live in a society were hatred seems to be in the spotlight within our diverse communities. As we all know immigration has been a compelling argument for the past couple of years and has been causing major setbacks for the United States....
Identity is understood to be an amalgamation of characteristics that determine an individual's social categorization. It is constructed by an individual's understanding of themselves and a created self-conception, as well as how others interact with these individuals, on the grounds of 'race, sexual orientation, disability,...
Introduction Today, many psychologists and other social scientists would agree that race is more a social construct than a biological entity. This assumption is based on the fact that people have a natural tendency to create categories, especially those that relate to human characteristics. Since...
The idea of what defines an American individual has been tossed around for ages. Being more American than the next person is a very common competition among people in America. Whether people testify with who has been here the longest or who received their citizenship...
The world is evolving daily, and almost everything is changing, like technology and business settings. However, in as much as everything else has changed, culture has retained the natural settings where the beliefs and traditional practices are still the same, and people are still following...
Be open-minded and educated in order to enhance the understanding of cultures and to address cultural conflict. Cultural conflict as stated in the Merriam Webster dictionary is the conflict of behavior patterns and values that results when different cultures are incompletely assimilated. To resolve this,...
The concept of race seems to be present in almost every society, but why? Race has been used to categorize homo sapiens and even study homo sapiens to see whether or not the idea of race could be used to create a sub species of...
Scientists have argued that race is a social construct that has no biological backing; this is because race has been defined by phenotypic characteristics which are characteristics that can be seen on an individual which are not genetic data. Similar to sex and gender whereas...
For this paper I interviewed my neighbor who is a 66 year old female. She was born and raised in Montegobay, Jamaica. She moved to the United States at the age of 58 with her son. Her son was offered an opportunity to work for...
Language is an important part of everyday lives. It is a unique human gift which lets us communicate and differentiates us from primates. But language is much more than just a means of communication. It is also an inseparable part of cultures around the world....
The Kawa Model was developed by a group of Japanese occupational therapists in response to a need for an occupational therapy practice model that was useful and appropriate in the Japanese culture (Iwama, 2003, 2005, 2006). Occupational therapy practitioners in Japan have struggled to interpret...
After the economic recession and depression of the 1970s, the global economy was in rapid development in the 1980s, people were paying more attention to material life, and also materialism has become the center of life. As in women’s wear at that time, successful women's...
There has been a shift in education abroad in recent decades towards globalization. Students and employers are more interested in education abroad to develop intercultural skills and global competency. As this movement for education becomes more common, so does culture shock. Culture shock can be...
Culture Shock means the “trauma” that an individual experiences when they move from their home culture to a different culture. This causes uncertainty that can be very stressful. There are five stages of culture shock: The honeymoon stage, Crisis stage, Adjustment stage, Acceptance or Adaptation...
Based on the case study, the cross-cultural experience brought up a lot of problems such as language barrier, cultural difference, failing to adapt to the new culture. After analyzing the case study, the roots of all the problems are clearly derived from an unwillingness to...
The city of Venice in general is widely acclaimed due to it’s frequent appearances in art, music, theatre and literature, both new and old. It’s world renowned association with fancy dress or ‘masquerade ball’ masks is undeniable. From the city’s stunning architecture, river boats and...
The last Sunday morning before I came to MSU my family and I decided to get together for breakfast. Since it was one of the last days that I was going to be in Guatemala we decided to make the traditional Guatemalan breakfast, the “Desayuno...
Africa is the hotbed of rich culture and resources. It has gained the attention of the Western world and the fascination of Africa has placed Africa outside the norm, due to its flawed representation. Cultural theorists Stuart Hall defines representation as the production of the...
Introduction Biemans, Griffin and Moenaert (2015) demonstrated that business need to analyze existing new content of technology. The researcher finds out that innovation management is very important in each management stages. They need to divide the organization structure and technique, which achieve organization aims and...
“Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan is a personal story based on a time in Tan's life where she had a crush on a blonde hair blue-eyed American boy named Robert. The short story takes place on Christmas Eve where Amy expresses her embarrassment of Robert's...
“Culture could be defined like the set of traditions, beliefs, customs, history, folklore, and institutions of a group of people. Culture is shared by people of the same ethnicity, language, nationality, or religion. It's a system of rules that are the base of what we...
“Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spiritualty not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.” – Deepak Chopra....
The movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” is a film that resembles the struggles of relationships with conflicting cultures and beliefs among families. Toula, the main character comes from a Greek background with her parents being strict about traditions and belief. She finds a boyfriend...
In the United States, we have Germany to thank for many things we use every day. The Christmas tree, freeways, pretzels, bratwursts, and even Pilsner-styled beer are just a few things common in the United States all thanks to Germany. Classical music’s greatest hit-makers were...
Southern Africa was inhabited by multiple different groups in the late 18th century. Each group had their own ways of life and interests, which resulted in many battles over territory and resources. The Zulu/Impi people were among those who lived in the southeastern section of...
Amid the second Industrial revolution, the Montreal Winter Carnivals were a pivotal point in history for establishing Canada’s national identity. The winter carnivals took place in the years 1883, 1884, 1885, 1887, and 1889 and were six-day long events held during the last week of...
In today’s day and age food has become a major topic when it comes to trends and social media. Social media models travel the world and explore new cuisines and post them on their social media accounts. That influences the rest of modern society to...
Having a rather diverse background three primary identities appear to me in this year of 2019 as the most salient those being my identity as an American, my identity as an Irishman, and my identity as a Roman Catholic. I define each of these identities...
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed an overarching influence of British institutions and notions of identity on Indian society. Significantly, the dissemination of education and the printing press in North India, coupled with demands by competing interest groups, created situations that were conducive...
The existence of ethnic minorities around the globe and especially in the west, has historically been subjugated by the dominant culture or hegemony. Since the mid-twentieth century there has been great research in cultural studies and memory studies on the construction of identity of these...
No two individuals see the world through the same lens. We are all molded by our culture, family, peers, and language to see the world in a uniquely personal way. But, just because one culture’s language may not have specific words or phrases for certain...
Names are means of social identification, in some culture it is believed that a name says a lot about the roots, lineage and in some cases the future of the person. Names is same situation especially in the African culture situation cannot just be an...
Growing up in school, I’ve always overheard people say that they hated their names. That they wish they could change their name or they use only a portion of their names. I could never relate because I have always loved my name, that could be...
When creating this proposal of The Journey Back Again, I grasped ideas from the heavy Jewish tradition based musical Fiddler on the Roof, musician Amy Winehouse who was raised Jewish, and lastly, I followed the timeline and setting of the Holocaust. This musical theater format...
What does it take to be an American? Becoming an American may seem simple and easy, but the cold truth exposes the impact of what it takes to become accepted as one. Assimilation is the absorption and integration of people, ideas, or culture into a...
In class, our main focus is globalization. We are forced to question what globalization is, its origin, how it affects us and vice versa. As a class, we try to conjure up a time, place, and reason for why globalization is important and relevant in...
E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime dives into the complex lifestyles of various characters that represent the identities and attitudes of America during the early twentieth century. Coalhouse Walker Jr. is one of the main characters presented in the novel, an African American male whose story becomes intertwined...
Piri Thomas’ novel Down These Mean Streets depicts a captivating and thought-provoking story that delineates significant questions of class, gender, and race within society. What are they really? Where does one stand if they’re mixed? Why are these elements so important? Carefully illustrated by Piri,...
Citizenship is a concept of legal status which holds numbers of rights and entitlements and gives a sense of identity and belonging to the homeland country. It acquires or contains a universal desire term. Citizenship can be categories in many terms such as bad citizens,...
I am torn on what side to pick. I can see both, the positive and negative, on providing automatic U.S. citizenship to Central American children who come to the U.S. by themselves in order to escape violence in their home countries. The negative part about...
Corporate citizenship is the new social identity supposing an important role in a firm’s life in the U.S. and Europe today. It is not enough for companies to generate a profit. U.S. and European citizens expect them to generate a profit and conduct themselves in...
Jasper Jones character’s identity challenges that result in anger. What is identity? Why do we get so angry at not knowing who we are? Why do people around us not accept us? First, let me tell you a few things about Jasper Jones. It all...
Ann Oakley once said “Women as the guardians of children possess a great power. They are the molders of their children’s personalities and the arbiters of their development” (Mothers Quotations, 2010). This quote clearly reflects the importance of a mother’s role when it comes to...
Abstract As an Asian-American author Amy Tan, who has a significant spot in American writing, told moved families' adaption issues, emergency and battle of personality regarding mother and little girl relationship. While the girls battle to discover and characterize themselves between the two societies, moms...
As human beings of various ethnic descents who were raised in different parts of the world, we develop societies of distinct characteristics in which members of each share similar customs, culture and identity, to name a few. Social identity is defined as “that part of...
Twelve years of schooling in ten different schools in two countries was vital to shape me as a person I am today. Life has been a fairy tale adventure. Everyone who has heard my story often came up with the same question on how did...
Cultural awareness is acknowledging the ways a person believes, acts, and lives, apart from their own ways. Cultural awareness is to understand and learn how to adapt and care for another person with different values and expectations. Communication For the Hispanic culture communication is both...
My families’ health care beliefs and practices vary. My mother’s parents were proactive in getting routine checkups, preventive health workups, routine lab work. My fathers' side, however, was different until Something catastrophic would happen and then they would be proactive I the health care. My...
To understand the culture of the Upper Paleolithic period we must first understand what exactly is culture and what exactly is the Paleolithic period. Culture by definition is “a shared way of life that includes material products, values, beliefs, and norms that are transmitted within...
It is a well-established fact throughout history humans have used their cultural identity and religious beliefs to understand and cope with health and illness. We are taught that health is having a balance in mind, spirit and body. It is defined as the body being...
From a young age, I was aware that I was different in comparison to my peers. I was among the few children with dark, melanin rich skin, and with hijab. Growing up, my mother always told me to ignore the hateful and discriminatory comments. I...
I never experienced having my parents with me all the time. My real dad has been working overseas since I wasn’t even born yet. I was nine years old when my mom left to go to US. My parents are OFW. What is an OFW?...
Traditional Knowledge (TK) is a living assemblage of learning that is created, managed and passed on from age to age inside a network, frequently shaping piece of its social or otherworldly identity. Customary Knowledge essentially that is the information that has old roots and is...
Language is omnipresent, it is used in every moment, and it is central to all our lives, since it is the tool that sets us as humans and differences us from any other species. Without it, religion, arts, literature and science, would not occur. It...
Spain is a very complex country, that has a diverse artistic heritage. Spain’s history is fascinating which plays a big role in every aspect of Spanish culture. It has also founded numerous influential authors, such as Ruiz Zafón, Carlos and the well-established director Mar Targarona....
OBESITY IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA Obesity is one of the immense problem of lifestyle disease as far as health is concerned. What is obesity? Medically obesity is simply defined as the build-up or accumulation of excessive fats in the adipose tissue of the human body....
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