Asian culture

Culture Identify: Food Experiences "Food is forever changing..." By David So, I like this quote because this help me understand my culture such as food fusion to opening up to other culture. My Vietnamese side of my family we love to eat the ethnic food such as Bánh cuốn, phở and other dishes but since we live here in Washington we get diverse food creating fusions and new dishes by adding the cultures together such as the seafood from Washington and other ethnic food. The new foods helped me…

Throughout today’s modern culture or even societies from the past, numerous groups or communities have played an immense role in creating a world that is more intelligible, responsive, and aware of differing people’s beliefs and values through the categorization of cultural identities. Furthermore, Nealon and Searls Giroux in “The Theory Toolbox” assert the importance of cultural subjects providing a more interconnected and communicative society, but also stressed the false notions of…

people who stereotype others because of their race, background, history, beliefs, religion, traditions and culture. It is a fact that one in five school children living in Australia experience racism every day. In an article online, there are some children from different cultures who tell stories about their school life (Minter, 2016). An Asian boy, named Simon says how he is the “first Asian” enrolled in a Christian school. “Simon finds the school children hostile and unwelcoming” and that he…

My gender identity is female, because I was born a female. 4. What is ethnocentrism? Give an example of ethnocentrism. How can you avoid ethnocentrism? Be specific. Ethnocentrism is the belief in righteousness in one’s own culture. An example of ethnocentrism is Asians thinking they are better than American’s. You can avoid ethnocentrism by deterring from dogmatism and by being open to others ideas. 5. What are the causes of prejudice? Give examples of each. Causes of prejudice are…

implicit bias test, it yielded unexpected results regarding the biases I possess. I took the tests analyzing African American and European American, Arab Muslims and other people, and the association of American with European American and foreign with Asian American. The first test was taken at the beginning of the semester to help us to begin understanding the concepts of intercultural communication. My first results produced fairly predictable results, considering my personal views. I…

be modest and not to display their knowledge freely until being specially called for. All these things can lead to misunderstandings since most American teachers highly promote class participation. It's a normal thing that American teachers expect Asian students to ask them to explain something difficult. However, most Hong Kong students don't do that as we have seen earlier. Moreover, their feedback sometimes leads to more misunderstandings. When teachers see their students listening to them,…

however, focus on different aspects of the transnational culture from those of world society theory. That is to say that the cosmopolitan publics focus on the origin of world culture rather than its outcome as well as the agency that actively engage in developing world culture instead of de-emphasizing actors as solely an adopter of the culture. In general, the world society theory’s primary interest is on the diffusion of world culture across the globe and its adoption and implementation by the…

writings and the center of life debates, with a diversity of perspectives that reflect time and culture. The earliest great thinkers include Kong Qiu 孔丘, who is more commonly referred to as Confucius; and Daoist sage, Lao Tzu 老子, commonly referred to as the Daodejing (Penny & Ryden, 2008). Here, intellect and logic combined to produce profound, guiding principles that have expanded beyond the Asian culture and remained as models of wisdom in disciplines of thought, behavior, and purpose…

continent to the Levant region and inner region of the Asian mainland (Frawley, 1). This diffusion is estimated to have started early in the year between the 5th and the 4th millennia BC when the Aryan people spread across the grassland region of the Eastern Europe. However, the initial migration was accelerated by the chariot war causing the Aryan to spread further into the Asian continent. During the chariot war, the Aryan language spread first in the Asian region due to the diversity that…

is often overlooked, culture. Culture brings people together and makes bonding easier. However, when two separate cultures meet, things get ugly. We get used to one culture so it is hard to grasp the notion that unrelated cultures behave drastically different. A good way to solve this problem is to get as familiar with other cultures as possible. Though, there are a lot of cultures out there so a good way to understand other cultures better, is to understand how every culture works from within.…