Adena culture

When asked on what makes someone truly American, the answer you usually get is freedom, patriotism, and loving the “American way”. Culture, defined by the mannerism of what a person does, cannot be condensed into a simple phrase or quality. In the past, other cultures such as the African and Native Americans were viewed as a nuisance to achieving Uniformity as an American Country, and were sought out and assimilated to try to fit in with the norm of society. This was done to ensure that cultural…

Clarification stage is where individuals accept some of the positive attitudes about their culture and accept themselves. It has taken a long time for me to get to this stage. I spent a long time in the “Ethnic Psychological Captivity” stage. This is where individuals internalize negative ideas about their culture, have low self-esteem, and strive for higher cultural assimilation. I was never proud of my culture, because I saw mostly the hate. Having family members who use racial slurs, fly…

Culture describes a people’s way of life. Through the whole of attitudes, ethics, ambitions, and practices shared by individuals in a society, people create a community that acts as one. Cultures reflect the moral and ethical beliefs and standards that describe how people should behave and interact with others. Nonetheless, problems occur in communities when a clash of cultures transpires, or when individuals in close contact exhibit varied beliefs. In any community, a multitude of cultures…

The lack of solitude in modern-day society has dramatically diminished the quality of interpersonal relationships; however, new technology has provided a unique community for people to thrive in, emphasizing the need for a healthy balance between the two. During the recent reports that have been done on the effects of solitude and technology, one term has developed that is used to measure the interpersonal relationships that society has: social capital. Social capital, defined as “the capacity…

been adapted for hundreds of unique cultures and societies. In the past, language was developed based on individual societies because travel and communication were extremely limited. We see the effects of this today because of the many languages used around the world. Each region is seen as synonymous with a particular language and dialect. Language has developed into another method of distinguishing between cultures. However, with the progression of time, cultures have become intertwined across…

Cultural appropriation defines as when one culture adopts an element of another culture. (Uwujaren 9/30/13) In the world today, many people are witless as to what is culturally appropriate. There are many examples of cultural appropriation today, such as henna tattoos, bindi’s, sports team names, etc. These types of culture or traditions have become a fad for people, especially in America. People who are within the culture tend to get offended when their culture is made into a fad. There are…

Every country, state, city, and even family has their own set of values. Culture is defined as a cluster of ideas, beliefs, characteristics, and behaviors shared by a group in society. When people talk about their identity and how it was formed, they tend to talk about what influenced them, what values came into it, how their experiences, negative or positive came to shape themselves. Since everyone is different people who counsel, treat, or work with helping other must be understood and…

Educators should be responsible to the children they teach because they have a big influence on students. Furthermore, Australia is a multicultural society in today’s world so it is significant for educators to respect, accept every child and treat them equally as everyone else. And many children think their teachers are the models in their life so it is important for teachers to understand issues of diversity and difference involving multiculturalism, poverty and gender stereotyping. This essay…

Amy Cunningham is an American journalist and essayist. Cunningham studied English at the University of Virginia and has been a freelance writer since she graduated in 1977. Cunningham wrote the essay Why Women Smile in 1993. Cunningham talked about how women, including herself have faced the same issues during the decades. Cunningham stated “American women’s smile often has less to do with their actual state of happiness than it does with the social pressure to smile no matter what” (page 191).…

Communication is used around the world by variety of groups, nations and cultures. Each of these cultures view communication in different ways. None are better that the others, they are just different. However, when comes to the study communication some argue that there some better than others and this has affects. Penman (2000) writes, “The way in which we conceive of communication sets the constraints on what we study and what we don’t; on what ways we use communication to act in our world and…