Cultural generations

Story Summary The Red Scarf Girl is an Autobiography written by Ji-li Jiang herself. Throughout the book she displays her life before, during and after China’s cultural revolution. The story begins with Ji-li talking about her family, and her status in school. She’s a motivated, hardworking person who hopes for a bright future. She also mentions the fact that she gets perfect scores on many of her tests, and her dream to go to Shi-Yi, one of the most accredited schools around. Later on in the…

These Canadians have experienced the problem of a “dual-identity” when living as first and second generation immigrants living in a predominantly Anglophone society. Vincent’s Portuguese immigrant experience defines the conflicting sense of identity that occurs when she and her brother interacted with Portuguese that had a more difficult time assimilating…

Stepheny Saavedra Anthropology 340 Dec. 1, 2016 “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” is one of the many cases that exemplify the barriers and obstacles people from distinct cultures encounter due to their ethnocentrism and lack of cultural relativism. After escaping to the U.S., a place completely different from what they called home, the Lees had to adapt and place their trust on strangers (to save their daughter) who viewed a condition with spiritual origin to the Hmong as a…

Assimilation is defined in the vocabulary as the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another. For a long time it was considered that the best strategy for becoming a full member of the society for a migrant to another country is assimilation. The distinctive cultural traits of immigrants determined their disadvantaged position in the host society. Therefore, they had to withdraw their cultural characteristics, values, beliefs, religion, ethnic identity and language…

housing, and resources they are using. Immigrants from today’s generation and generations of the past face many struggles and challenges once they arrived in America. Nunez (2014) explains that immigrants and refugees face several barriers once they arrive in America. These challenges include the language barrier, raising a family in a foreign culture, obtaining employment, housing, accessing services, transportation issues, and cultural…

Wilfred Owen was one of the most significant poets of the First World War. Owen encompassed the cruel conditions faced by soldiers and observed the true nature of the battlefield. He expressed his ideas through his compositions in a variety of poems such as ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth.’ Owen’s perspectives on human conflict were initially represented throughout his encounters amid ‘The Great War.’ Owen’s poetry moves from traditional formulaic forms to a more violent…

population of Vietnamese living in the United States. In fact, it is the highest number of Vietnamese living outside of Vietnam. How did they retain their language and cultural practices virtually unchanged after they immigrated to the United States? The preserve their culture and traditions and continue to teach it to the following generations that follows. Although, some of the children are born here they are still fluent on their Vietnamese language and carry on with their heritage.…

(Story of His Life) Have you ever wondered what it would be like to write a poem about your life? Well, a famous poet named Allen Ginsberg did just that when he wrote, "Howl and Other Poems" which became famous of his time and continue on till today. Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem, "Howl and Other Poems" conveys and portrays a message to an audience in which modern poetry and the Beat Movement on American literature was raw and revealing about the political and social views such as war,…

During the early nineteenth century, generations of immigrant women undergo assimilation to unite themselves in American customs. The ideology that they will be accepted into a society that does not suppress their gender identity has driven them to this process but they blindly forget their origin culture. America’s “opportunities” is proved an illusion when the “American Dream” influences many foreigners to reevaluate their lives and social standings upon arrival. The illusion of upward…

First, there is a conflict between first-generation Haitians and their second-generation offspring. Parents prefer to maintain a strong national identity and solidarity with community members. Second-generation children find themselves rejecting their parent’s ideology due to their native-born peers (Portes and Zhou 1993: 81). These Haitian children are exposed to the inner-city…