Document 7.1 I think the cultural richness in the religion of its civilization, with all the Buddhist teaching and scholarship might’ve shocked or surprised him. Since China and India have a different and distinct language, the language in India seems to be the most strangest to a Chinese person. Chapters 3 through 5 had mentioned a lot about Buddhism’s life as a person through following it’s four noble truths, and it connects to the descriptions of Indian civilization by going to the schools (Nalanda University) to study. From reading this document, Buddhist practice is very important and in depth in India that they even have schools dedicated to practice Buddhism.…
Rituals and Festivals in Europe: What’s the point?- DBQ Essay The anxiety and eagerness with which the people of traditional Europe awaited rituals and festivals leads to the interesting question of what their true purpose in society was. Communities and members of various groups would gather to hold ceremonies covering multiple aspects of society that affected their everyday lives. Rituals can be traced back to the early churches and their original practices, but evolved over time to become what are more known as holdings to bring people of all types together to support a common event. Writers, artists, and historians of the time recognized that these festivals had the potential to be seen as altering moments in European life spanning from the mid-fifteenth century as far as the late-nineteenth century.…
Chapter Four, Legal Religion, talks about how religion freedoms are handled under the law. Sullivan expresses that religious ideas are free to be thought, however when put into practice, religious beliefs can be limited by the government. She talks about the difficulties presented by the American Legal system, for example the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which claim to protect varying religious beliefs, but in turn discriminate against religions not of the unsaid Protestant majority. To emphasize her argument, Sullivan provides cases such as Employment Divisionv. Smith, Warner v. City of Boca Raton, U.S. v. Seeger, and Africa v. Pennsylvania.…
The Lakota is one of the largest Native American tribes and they have many rituals. They have faced many difficulties to keep their ceremonies and rituals. The European- Americans and the Secretary have banned these rituals from being performed in the Lakota culture. After a long period of time, these rituals had not been celebrated and their reintroduction into the Lakota culture was a time of renewal for the tribe, people, and earth. The Sun Dance and the Yuwipi were two of the most important ceremonies practiced by the Lakota.…
My background as Punjabi Sikh has helped me interact with individuals who are different from me in culture effectively because I now respect other people’s cultural and social values. I have been taught that every culture is different and just because it is different doesn’t mean it’s inferior. My family owns a small liquor store downtown Baltimore, which I worked almost all of my summers growing up. I have seen many diverse groups of people e.g. opulent Caucasians and unfortunate African Americans and Caucasians. My experience working with these people lead me to the conclusion I should not deem anyone based on their wealth because everyone has a different background and different reason why they consume liquor.…
I have never had any experience with the “Indian Mascot” debate, in fact, I never really looked or had a deep thought about these issues. I think if someone is not first handed involved when it concerning these issues, him or her will not have any idea to what extent it hurts. I strongly feel that if the non-indigenous people use the indigenous names that were being referred to them by other people and images used by those same other people in the past are now being used now in this civilized world as a symbol of an athletic term or school then it is insulting and degrading. I think those teams and school should use the images and things that are associated with the town or what they represent instead of using images or names of another ethnicity.…
Native American culture has been slowly dying for a little over five centuries. It started in 1492 when Columbus sailed out on his historic voyage and it is still going on in present day America. Interactions between Native Americans and European settlers often resulted in the complete destruction of music considered “pagan” by the Europeans. Native people were continuously removed and relocated from their ancestral homelands, losing many of their mythologies and ancient music traditions in the process. The Native American people have tried to fight back numerous times but there numbers were decimated in the beginning with the introduction of diseases such as measles, typhus, and smallpox.…
In this paper, I will share my thoughts and feelings as I made plans to go, and attend the festival. I definitely placed myself in an environment where I was the minority. I will identify why I chose this particular event, how it was a new experience for me, and the various comfort levels I experienced in this new environment. I will reflect on the differences I identified from my own culture and share what I learned about the African American culture. I will explain how it felt to wander the streets elbow to elbow with a crowd that was predominantly African American, and the subsequent motions that surfaced.…
In Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower she writes about how religion is something that is everywhere, and there truly hasn’t been a society in history that has functioned without one. All throughout Lauren’s childhood, she was forced to follow a religion that she did not believe in due to the fact that her mother and father did believe in it. So Lauren decided to create her own religion called Earthseed. This religion has the main idea that the seeds of life can be transplanted, and can eventually grow no matter the situation. So it was made a lot to provide hope in a place that is full of crime, death, and sadness.…
I heard that New York is such a gigantic city; diverse ethnicities and everyone gets along together regardless of one’s background. So I thought I was definitely ready to start my new life in New York. I was ready to be independent, get along with neighbors, and stride down the street new college, new life, and everything. I was excited that I didn’t have to be conscious of the way other people are looking at me because it is New York. I could do whatever I want to, nobody would stare at me surprisingly like when I was in Indonesia, just because I am a foreigner.…
Culture norms are rules set out by society to differ what is “normal” and what isn’t. There are three different types of norms: folkways, mores, and taboo. Violating a norm can result in receiving a negative sanction, reaction from the people. Society control what would be considered norms and can rage from the right way people should enter an elevator or the way people should eat. Negative sanctions also control society as to the punishment if a norm is broken.…
Hi Caroline, you such have an interesting and unique cultural background! It’s awesome that you were exposed so early on in your life to different cultures and traditions. I was raised to be accepting of all cultures and religions but I didn’t gain a lot of exposure or personal experience until high school and college.…
The Yemeni Culture The first time I went to Yemen, was when I was 15 years old. Living in America my whole life, Yemen was a new world to me. Even though it was my first time there, I felt at home, like its where I belong. But the kids there didn’t agree with me because I was a little different to them. I was American.…
My cultural field experience was attending a Buddhist Meditation meeting. This was out of my typical culture for two reasons; first, I am Christian, not Buddhist, and two, I have not ever meditated or even witnessed someone meditating to my knowledge. I will admit that I generally look on meditation as a waste of time that can be used to complete something constructive. I was a bit nervous about attending as it was an experience I was completely unfamiliar with and I had no idea of what to expect.…
Ramadan, also known as Ramadhan or Ramzan, is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar. Ramadan is a period of prayer, fasting, charity-giving, and self-accountability for Muslims everywhere. On June seventeenth of 2015 I had experienced my first Ramadan since my conversion to Islam. The experience was beyond exciting. I met a ton of people of different races and from different countries.…