Going to a friend’s house can be a scary experience. Some of their customs that they normally do are weird to you. Why is that? Culture that is introduced to a certain individual can change someone’s point of view. Culture is the behaviors and belief characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group.…
Cultural identity has a great influence on how people live and how they see the world. To begin with, the way a person grows up affects…
It comes as no surprise that the some immigrants are conflicted about cultural views and as time goes by, they desire to assimilate to their new community. However, we, immigrants tend to fulfill a stereotypical role. We develop the sense of cultural sense of humor too. Some big and diverse countries like United States or Europe countries have a subject dispute about cultural ethos. Some of these issues include national identity or beliefs and values of a culture.…
You need to know about your own cultural identity in order to be culturally competent. I have to understand my own beliefs and values in order to know how these influence me on acknowledging and understanding other people’s beliefs and values. Every person has experienced a number of different key life events that automatically influence the way you see the world. All of these experiences shape our beliefs, values and attitudes.…
Although all the millions of people who live in the United States are all interrelated due to the fact that we all live in the same country, but we all differ in the language we speak and our culture. Text such as The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, “Studying Islam” by Peter Berkowitz and Michael McFaul, and “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, explore the idea that language and culture shape and give individuals their identity. No two…
How someone identifies is a complicated matter to dissect. There are an innumerable amount of factors that play into identity, both internally and externally to an individual. The fact that culture is an integral part only adds more complexity, as many cultures are becoming increasingly integrated and globalized with other unique groups. Generally speaking, identity is usually determined, often simultaneously, on three different levels: the national level, in one’s community, and at the personal level of self.…
9) The elements of EYLF that relates to cultural competency are based on; cultural competency celebrates the benefits of diversity and respecting and acknowledging differences. Indigenous people are of different culture so that and according to the EYLF and cultural competency, indigenous people have the right to be respected and their differences should be acknowledged. According to the concept of belonging; being respectful and accepting of diversity. This concept shows the importance of being respectful to other cultures and accepting them.…
Accordingly, humans inherit their racial identity, ethnic identity, and social class from their immediate family. That is to say; African-Americans also acquire their physical traits from their biological parents, they learn the culture from their family and ethnic community. Although they may have different abilities access to wealth by reasons of their higher education and successful careers today, the public insists on arranging them in the social hierarchy based on their parents’ social class. In fact, everybody has a unique personality, facial feature, and different ability, however, society insists all black people are the same and look the same. At some point, Rankine comments “[h]aven’t you said this to a close friend who early in your…
Reporting: - The author emphasize on how the race and genetics are used to calculate the variation and how the within human population is more varied than between human population. Author also uses the statics and graphs to explicate that how racism is followed through genetic ancestry and lead into the health disparities (JADA BENN TORRES, 2007). Responding: - According to my point of view, Relating: - As per the knowledge I have regarding the issue, it totally contradicts to the recent research done on same issue which evidently explicates that the health dissimilarity between the varied race and genetics population has been mitigated over the past few years (Health, n.d.). As per the research done in 2017 by (NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CHRONIC…
It is clear that in this article the author, Blommaert, understands that culture, and intercultural communication, is no longer just about culture and communication between different religions, and/or races. It is now about the communication and culture between different genders, ages, social classes, professions, workplace, religion, consumption, hobby, media, etc. Blommaert understands that individuals now need to be able to read different social situations and adapt to fit in, or else be deemed “socially awkward”. The author also understands that knowing the…
"After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity. " This was a quote by the actress, Catherine Zeta-Jones, when asked to speak Spanish in an interview for Univision, a media network targeted primarily for a Spanish speaking audience. This is one of many results that come from of a complex reality of identity that is controlled by a social structure that labels an individual based on similarities to a particular ethnic group. Society has the need to shape the ethnic identity of a person by categorizing them into a homogenized single group defined by resemblances of their nationality and culture that often ends in discrimination and oppression.…
Today in 2016, we are still at a crossroad between racial identity and bondage. History has a strange way of repeating itself. Even though we made it through 250 years or Slavery, 90 years or Jim Crow, and 60 years of Segregation, we still are going through the same struggles in modern time. This systematic oppression of African Americans has been here far too long and it has been embedded into the American Culture. We are strong people born from super humans who survived the horrors or The Middle Passage to the pain of Chattel Slavery.…
In today’s society it is almost everyone’s goal to belong to a group. Everyone on this planet belongs to not only one culture, but many co-cultures. Culture and communication are closely connected, with culture having a huge effect on communication. Culture is the shared values, beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes of a particular segment of population. A dominant culture is a culture within a society whose attitudes, values, beliefs and customs hold the majority opinion.…
Race is associated with biology of human beings, whereas ethnicity is associated with the origin and culture. An individual coming into a society where his ethnicity and race is unfamiliar, an opportunity is open for both the individual and the population of that society to learn and get to know each other. It is imminent that the people of different racial backgrounds, especially multi-ethnic groups, will face all kinds of stereotypes when coming to a new society that is completely unfamiliar with the physical features, culture, traditions and world view of that ethnic group. However, that can be rectified with positive involvement and communication in different areas of that society. Individuals coming from various ethnic and racial backgrounds…
All individual despite their colour of skin, race, religious persuasion, ethnicity or country are socialized from an early age in a particular culture. Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts. The Center for Advance Research on Language Acquisition goes a step further, defining culture as shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs and understanding that are learned by socialization. Thus, it can be seen as the growth of a group identity fostered by social patterns unique to the group. Many countries are largely populated by immigrants, and the culture is influenced by the many groups of people…