Cultural assimilation

Some various co-cultures I belong to include the Theravada Buddhist community, Burmese community, and extracurriculars in high school. The Theravada Buddhist community and Burmese community come hand in hand for me, because I usually meet with my parents’ Burmese friends when I do monastery work or any religious celebration/activity. My parents are more religiously active, as they attend chantings at their friends’ houses while I am not able to. At the monasteries, one in Austin and one in…

Appropriation in Art By Sophie Mitchell Some words that might be needed when understanding appropriation in art are convention, postmodern and appropriation. Appropriation means to take an image from the past and put in new context so that it changes it’s meaning. The meaning of convention is the rules and standards in art. Postmodern is new, different, experimental art that questions the conventions of art. Postmodern artist challenge the conventions of art by using different and unusual…

The article Experiencing Diversity through Children’s Multicultural Literature by Kathryn L. Davis, Bernice G. Brown, Ann Liedel-Rice, and Pamela Soeder, discusses how teacher candidates today are mostly European-American and monolingual with little to no experience with diversity or perceive diversity in a negative way. This lack of experience and understanding could lead to problems in the classroom because teachers will have kids from all types of backgrounds and cultures. To become…

knowledge and strategies are essential in achieving cultural inclusiveness and acceptance, ultimately providing all students with a positive and successful curricula experience. This electronic resource was created for primary school educators to evoke awareness, identify, and to explain the negative impacts upon multicultural students suffering from implications caused by cultural diversity. Several points are emphasised regarding how cultural diversity impacts the curriculum experience…

will be looking at the way assimilation, rites of passage and diffusion directly affect human culture. Specifically, how the Predator culture used each of these to influence sects of human culture. In the movie Alien vs. Predator we get a glimpse of what that may have looked like as we see the aftermath of the Predators thousand year old organization of tribal man into a civilization that worshiped them as gods. This movie shows how the Predator culture forced assimilation on mankind, making…

When we think of management and managers usually the first thing that comes into our minds is that they are the higher ups of a company, they are leaders. We think of them as more knowledgeable than the general employee, with more experience and more leeway to help us with our problem. There are three levels of management and the ones that we usually see are the first level managers, the supervisors. Managers range from the supervisor, who is responsible for a group of individual workers, to the…

Residential school, a gruesome institution that includes rape, torture and abuse. Residential schools have been around since the 19th century. They were created to assimilate aboriginal children into Euro-Canadian culture, and to essentially strip them of their native culture. In both the poem, “Monster” by Dennis Saddleman and the novel, Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, the authors go in depth on the problems with residential schools. Saddleman explains how residential school obliterates native…

A multicultural society is a popular concept in Canadian; to some, it is a good thing that opens up our society to all new experiences that would never have been possible without the incorporation of other Cultures. It allows us as a people, to better understand cultures from around the world. However, some others may feel that having a multicultural society can cause some serious issues. Such as, the ghettoization of communities and the threats to Canadian identity, but Canadian society is not…

together we live near all we know each other and we contribute to our cultures. Multiculturalism is defined as the presence of , or support for the presence of several distinct cultural or ethnic the community within a society. Canada is a multicultural country we have been called this for years and it's true Canada has several cultural groups and everybody supports each other — thought maybe not full heartedly as everyone would like but it is what it is — and we respect all groups in Canada.…

the English language. Highway’s story defines the tragic loss of indigenous identity through the forced assimilation policies of Canadian society during the era of residential schooling, which involves changing their names to Jeremiah and Gabriel. The loss of identity is a traumatic event due to the shame that the children have to endure due to a complete rejection of their own language and cultural values. In essence, an analysis of the loss of the indigenous language through residential…