I am Italian, Irish, French, British, I also have a bit of Native American in me. Even though I am all these things, I have almost no idea how to speak Italian, or French I don 't know where my ancestors were located or really anything about my heritage besides how to cook Italian meals. The only place I have been is the United States and only 4 States Pennsylvania, New York, California, and Florida. I relate to the story of "The Frog in the Well" because I have no experience of my own culture or heritage, so how can I have any understanding of someone else 's? When discussing other customs, culture, heritage, and religion I try to stay as open minded as possible, because I have a narrow view from how I grew up. I know my experiences will differ
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The United States has so many different cultures and to coexist with each other there has to be an understanding of the variation of people. Another important example is how in other countries they must know more than one language to graduate high school, however, in the United States immigrants have to learn English to function within our society. Immigrants will mostly populate the United States in the future, so why does our school systems not require a second language? This problem is occurring because we haven 't had progress with really understanding how diverse America is. A lot of the places in the south still have the same beliefs they did for years because of the ideals their families grew up with for generations. My father never lived in the south, however, he has narrow minded views about our society. When he served in Vietnam there was a lot of racism towards Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese, if we go out to a Chinese restaurant he will make rude comments about their culture. It offends me and I try to explain to him how ignorant he 's being but because he grew up in a society that blames a whole ethnicity, religion, race, …show more content…
When I was in junior high, my friend who was Mexican came on the bus crying and I was trying to calm him down and have him explain to me why he was so upset. He told me that because they said the swine flu came from Mexico the kids in his class called him dirty, they also said to him that they didn 't want to get sick and that he should go back to Mexico. It really made me view people differently how could kids who are 12, 13 say such racist remarks. This brings me to what I am hoping to learn from this class, I really want to educate myself as much as I possibly can about other customs, cultures, beliefs, religion, practices, so I can educate people who don 't have the right facts and only judge from what they hear or assume. I like to think I have cultural competence but I don 't think I would know until I am placed In another culture and I would like to educate myself and prepare for the day I do. It is very important to me to learn other people 's values because I want to be able to reevaluate my value, grow, change, and have more of understanding of the
The United States has so many different cultures and to coexist with each other there has to be an understanding of the variation of people. Another important example is how in other countries they must know more than one language to graduate high school, however, in the United States immigrants have to learn English to function within our society. Immigrants will mostly populate the United States in the future, so why does our school systems not require a second language? This problem is occurring because we haven 't had progress with really understanding how diverse America is. A lot of the places in the south still have the same beliefs they did for years because of the ideals their families grew up with for generations. My father never lived in the south, however, he has narrow minded views about our society. When he served in Vietnam there was a lot of racism towards Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese, if we go out to a Chinese restaurant he will make rude comments about their culture. It offends me and I try to explain to him how ignorant he 's being but because he grew up in a society that blames a whole ethnicity, religion, race, …show more content…
When I was in junior high, my friend who was Mexican came on the bus crying and I was trying to calm him down and have him explain to me why he was so upset. He told me that because they said the swine flu came from Mexico the kids in his class called him dirty, they also said to him that they didn 't want to get sick and that he should go back to Mexico. It really made me view people differently how could kids who are 12, 13 say such racist remarks. This brings me to what I am hoping to learn from this class, I really want to educate myself as much as I possibly can about other customs, cultures, beliefs, religion, practices, so I can educate people who don 't have the right facts and only judge from what they hear or assume. I like to think I have cultural competence but I don 't think I would know until I am placed In another culture and I would like to educate myself and prepare for the day I do. It is very important to me to learn other people 's values because I want to be able to reevaluate my value, grow, change, and have more of understanding of the