African Culture Vs American Culture

It does not matter what kind of ethnicity you are, or how you were brought up, everyone is truly fixed in their own culture. Culture is defined as a lifestyle of a group of people, the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept and are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next. There are some foreign students here in American schools. And many foreign students do not interact with the foreign students due to the culture difference. Most of the foreign students always wish that Americans culture could adjust their culture. Most continents have foreign teachers that cannot be understood by the native student. The misunderstanding between the cultures causes some culture differences. In this paper …show more content…
All African countries have a mixture of different tribes, each of them with their own different languages. Africa is a polychronic culture because Africans charge their plans, are easily distracted, and they build strong relationships. American is a monochronic culture because Americans focus on one job; they build weak relationship and do one thing at a time. Unlike the Africans the Americans plan they are task ahead. The Americans believe in controlling nature and the world around them. In contrast, Africans believe in the harmony with nature. In American culture, meetings and events are scheduled by doing one thing at a time. For example, people like to concentrate on one task before moving on to something else. They will get angry if someone tries to get them distracted by bringing up a subject that is not related to what they are doing. Meanwhile, the African people are not tied to time and are usually very accepting of distractions. Schedules are not as important and they are also very frequently ignored. In Africa most people are frequently late for appointments or may not even show up at all. Africans are very educated and most complete higher learning education. In American culture there are only a few educated people. In Africa most people go beyond masters if they have the money for school. Most Americans drop out of school before high school and do not want to attend college because of the money. African cultures do not have any racial division although there are some situations to where they belong; Africans do not hold much weight on race as Americans do. Africans are also less likely to use ethnic labels like Hispanic, Chinese, and Indian. In Africa if you are from a different tribe than the employer, you will be denied the job, in comparison to America, where your race will give you a disadvantage in getting the