Cultural hegemony

and Dolce Gabbana are the critiques of cultural appropriation. Accusations of cultural appropriation are prevalent at almost every Fashion Week, Vogue, or…

In past the Chinese history, many Chinese peoples had been seen already up and down. Many long time ago, in the China some Qing dynasty ruled out and their harassment, unlawful mode of behavior, and they were corrupted from top to bottom. In between, country foundation was loose from the tremor corruption. After this era, China gave some powerful great men to the country. His name was Deng Xiaoping and his revolutionary thoughts, ideology, legendry image to help in china become great. In term of…

which they live. Through the myriad of processes and mechanisms used to alter the landscape sometimes come deliberate alterations of symbolism or meaning. The sub-dicipline of cultural geography investigates the variation of these symbolisms, traditions, and cultural products across time and space. It is through the lens of cultural geography, especially in respect to environmental symbolism, that we can interpret the value and meaning attributed to everyday phenomena such as vegetation. It has…

It’s official: the millennials have overtaken the baby boomers as the largest reigning population in recorded history (Fry.) Millennials are seen as many things by the older generations besides just being larger in size than they are. They have been deemed as “lazy, work-shy narcissists who lack loyalty and jump ship at the drop of a hat” (Maio.) The generation has been said to have no work ethic, an unhealthy dependency on technology, and are happy to live in their mom’s basement. Millennials…

Fieldwork is an essential aspect of being an anthropologist, it allows anthropologists to learn about other societies and cultures. One of the most popular forms of fieldwork is participant observation which is when an anthropologist tries to enter the society and culture they are researching as deeply as possible, essentially becoming a local in that community (Hyland,2012 pp.28-29). Although, the anthropologist will always be somewhat a stranger which may limit the amount that the locals will…

The age cohort groups you will research this week are Tweens, Generation X, and Generation Y. It makes sense that each generation is different from other. But it may seem excessive to make the difference in generations a determining of the most critical behaviors, among other as membership’s social classes, cultures, territories etc. Generation X consumers were born in the years 1965 – 1980, and According to Babin J. Barry & Harris G. Eric, (2014), they represent approximately 40.000.000…

Revolutionary pedagogy: “Highest Directives” in textbook The textbooks in the era of Cultural Revolution provide a unique perspective to the establishment of Mao’s cult. Although generally regarded a presentation of academic background and kept at a distant from political turmoil, textbooks didn’t escape from the politicization during the Cultural Revolution; rather it bore witness to the Maoists’ attempt of upraising Mao Thought to an omnipresent, universal and unchallengeable place. Similar…

Little Saigon in Garden Grove has the highest 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…

that society as a whole become more educated on cultural competency. In the study of anthropology we have learned more about cultural universal, generalities, and uniqueness’s (Kottak & Kozaitis, 2012). As cultures become more integrated in our society, it becomes increasing important that we embrace our differences. Going forward, we will discuss several different models of cultural diversity. Assimilation refers to the merging of minority cultural groups and their customs within a society…

anthropology is the study of humans combining a biological and cultural perspective (MindEdge 1.05). Due to the complexity of humankind, anthropology can be broken down into four sub-fields; cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, archaeology, and biological/physical anthropology. Cultural anthropology is the study of how humans lived, and how their culture was handed down from generation to generation. Cultural anthropologists study a cultural society’s beliefs, ideals, artistic…