Cultural Differences In The 1920s

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Majorities are different today but to some extent they have stayed the same. We are more open to change now than we were in the 1920s. The movements for equality that happen today are more often joined by college students and other people who are in the majority. I don’t know if we only join the movement because we feel obligated to or because we truly believe that change needs to happen, but either way it accomplishes the same goal we are getting closer to other humans and becoming more accepting of people wo are different. It is a very common occurrence for the dominate culture to take parts of the various cultures that move here. In America especially we like our food, and we like making new kinds of food but that can be difficult because the ingredients that came from Europe are very different from the ingredients that came from other parts of the world. …show more content…
In my opinion it seems that the most accepted groups of people are the ones who have the best food. In places that new food is served people can gain an appreciation for the culture that that food and the people who cooked it came from, and as we learn about their culture we start to integrate parts of it into our own culture and as we do that we start to accept the people because we have common ground. Even as we are change there are many ways that we are still the same, people are afraid of things that they don’t fully understand and we don’t like to change if it is forced on us. I don’t believe that this will ever change but as the dominate culture of a country founded by immigrants I think we can work around this fear and become a better people for

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