Cultural anthropology

feeling of superiority in a group over any other collaboration. Deciding that a group is entirely inferior can lead to prejudice against said group, which unreasonably promotes a dislike for that category of people. Individuals become blind to the cultural rules that produce the behavior of their enemy, such as when Iranian natives commonly use “yes” to mean “yes” or “no”, as westerners believe…

Hello, I’m Aaron. I enjoy sports and my friends, two of the biggest things in my life. That makes up part of my identity; interests (sports) and important people. Those aren’t the only ones, but they certainly are important. I am going to tell you some of the factors that make up my identity. One of the factors that make up my identity is definitely interests. One of those interests is sports, which has made athletic and competitive. But it also makes me more confident and gives me the ability…

Many people believe that race is biological when in fact it is a social construct. There are no genes common to all blacks or all whites, a person who would be considered black in the United States might be considered white in Brazil or colored in South Africa. How a person perceives their race identity can change with experience and over time. This does not only apply to people who are multiracial, these changes in racial identity can be determined by our society, which insists on the rigidity,…

Results indicated 7 macroaggression themes directed toward this group: (a) invalidating racial-cultural issues, (b) making stereotypic assumptions about Black clients, (c) making stereotypic assumptions about Black supervisees, (d) reluctance to give performance feedback for fear of being viewed as racist, (e) focusing primarily on clinical weaknesses…

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.(martin ). I hope people around all the world live their lives like what they want without preference races and religions. In reality, racism is a sensitive issue and hard to identify it because sometimes you cannot see the impact on you till someone tell you that you have some racism. Moreover, racism destroyed the world and affected people negatively by using words, characters, and jokes. Generally…

Society, a word that defines by as of multiple people from different ages, ethnics, and cultures. In a society lays a division of economical and structural differences between the people, leading to social classes. The social classes may vary with the vocations, stableness, and even personalities from time to time. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain develops a intertwined society with social classes that confronting each other by social interaction or by owning a slave. Due to…

In cultures of any kind, there is a sort of racism, such as internalized racism. This sort of racism occurs when racial groups believe, act upon, or enforcing dominant systems of beliefs of themselves and members of their own racial group. In my family this type of racism does not occur but, I have witnessed that in a culture like my own people who would change themselves to the dominant systems' ways. For example, a dark-skinned person may bleach their skin to fit in the beauty standards of the…

Sanjana Mehrotra Professor Alexander Jenkins Communications 111 24 November 2015 Communications 111—Fall Final Question 1: Context is the circumstances surrounding a situation, which is why it is so important to communication. Context can drastically change communication, as it affects how people interpret each others words, as well as the messages behind it. One way that context can change communication is through context rich communication. Context rich communication is the richest context…

Literature has always been a very important source of history. It has many ways of describing the past to us and has been used for nearly all of recorded history. Literature can help us remember and honor the victims of the Holocaust by describing their struggles and comparing them to others.It also sometimes explains how it affects us currently.The Diary of Anne Frank, Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, and Maus are great examples. The Diary of Anne Frank shared many personal…

As stated in the course description, “our ideas about and experiences of health, ‘dis-ease,’ and medicine are profoundly shaped by culture.” In compliance with this theory, we discussed our medicinal upbringings and backgrounds, and how these influence our choice of healing practices today. Our experiences included topics of mental health, oncology, and alternative medicine, among others. In this paper, we will review these anecdotes and reflect on the similarities and differences between our…