This essay applies three texts in course ENGLISH 121 G to one of key terms in course vocabulary, enculturation. There are three texts such as Stanley Fish, ‘How To Recognize a Poem When You See One,’ Is There a Text in This Class? , Bell Hooks, 'Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education, ' Living Languages, and Sherman Alexie, The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me.
To trace back to the sources and to determinate the origin are still curial in this changing society. Through observation, experience, and instruction (both informal and formal), people can know and learn their culture deeply. Besides, human beings may have absorbed or accepted their cultures since they are little. Sometimes, people learn most from their parents, peers, and teachers. The goal is to learn specific rituals, expectations, and the language of the culture in order to be able to function smoothly within it. However, during this process, enculturation, it brings out some causes in different …show more content…
Various environments have influenced and shaped our value and behaviours in different ways since we are little. From being constrained, being silent to being looked down, there are many aspects problems which some people need to bear in their childhood. Two of authors face similar social problems, racism, hegemony, or broken Englishs. Each of the experience and knowledge step by step to be built up which is inerasable and has significant impacts in people’s future lives. Hence, through delivering speeches, publishing books or being writers, they use their personal abilities and knowledge to evoke the social problems and breakthrough the difficulties. It is important to honour and be respected our kin and communities. Whatever we experienced in the past, we need to forgive it and wipe it out. The only thing we can do is to create an equal, friendly, free and joyful enculturation to our next generations. We are not excepted but
To trace back to the sources and to determinate the origin are still curial in this changing society. Through observation, experience, and instruction (both informal and formal), people can know and learn their culture deeply. Besides, human beings may have absorbed or accepted their cultures since they are little. Sometimes, people learn most from their parents, peers, and teachers. The goal is to learn specific rituals, expectations, and the language of the culture in order to be able to function smoothly within it. However, during this process, enculturation, it brings out some causes in different …show more content…
Various environments have influenced and shaped our value and behaviours in different ways since we are little. From being constrained, being silent to being looked down, there are many aspects problems which some people need to bear in their childhood. Two of authors face similar social problems, racism, hegemony, or broken Englishs. Each of the experience and knowledge step by step to be built up which is inerasable and has significant impacts in people’s future lives. Hence, through delivering speeches, publishing books or being writers, they use their personal abilities and knowledge to evoke the social problems and breakthrough the difficulties. It is important to honour and be respected our kin and communities. Whatever we experienced in the past, we need to forgive it and wipe it out. The only thing we can do is to create an equal, friendly, free and joyful enculturation to our next generations. We are not excepted but