Modern American Culture Clash Of Cultures

Everybody has something they identify by, and to many people this is what defines one 's culture. A person culture is all the little things that they do and believe in, often without thinking about it. Cultural development can occur at a young age, where values are taught and instilled by a child 's parents or other authoritative figures. This learned behavior can lead to a life of firm belief in what they were taught. While diversity can be a great thing for a society, it can also be a hinderance. As a multitude of different cultures clash for what they think is right, each just as strong-willed and unchanging as the next. A clash of cultures is apparent even in our modern society, America is still the melting pot it started as, and it is …show more content…
What makes this debate so different is that it is not one that is focused on race or someone’s place of origin, it is purely belief based. This clash has brought two distinct groups of people to the forefront, the extremely religious conservatives, and the educated and liberal progressives. It is of religious sin for people of the same sex to engage in an emotional relationship. This is the argument that many people use to oppose same-sex marriage, but for many people they have embodied this idea and become severely bigoted towards those that engage in same sex relations. These people are often like those children in the essay Dumplings, unexposed to world other than their own. The progressives take the mindset that it does not affect anybody but the consenting parties, so what is being done to society? Recently in the United States the Supreme Court has passed into law that samesex marriage is legal in all 50 states. This created an uproar throughout the country, and some radical conservatives tried to make a stand. Licensing offices all throughout the southern United States closed their doors the day after the hearing in protest of the new law. One woman in Alabama refused to give a ga couple a marriage license in protest. It was not until the federal government got involved that the license was granted. Recently in the news there were reports of a woman who ran a catering service refusing to cater a same sex wedding. Tensions have been brought to a relative high thanks to the ruling of the Supreme Court, and it may be decades before things calm