Cultural heritage

I am fresh out of a gap year in 2015 after graduating in 2014 from Unley High School, which I attended throughout all my High schooling years. When I was in high school, I studied a range of different subject with my year 12 subjects being Health, Society & Culture, Nutrition, and English. I enjoyed all of them as it was a good variety of different areas of study. During my final year of high school, I was really anxious with the workload increasing from previous years. There were stages…

“The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, were ill-conceived and led to disastrous consequences.” (Scharm) In consequence of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, Mao enforced anti-rightest movement which was just the start of Mao’s reign of terror. Mao felt hated and rejected, therefore, to fix the problem Mao simply decided to exterminate all of the people who were against him. These people who were typically educated, independent thinkers were called the Rightists and to make them agree…

between believing the morals of Muslims and obtaining an American identity. Whether it was at school or at home, she encounters people who challenge her conceptions of both. Through this, Khadra’s family and cultural identities shape who she is through strict rules, personal beliefs, and a cultural environment. Khadra’s strict Muslim parents continuously limited her as she grew up. Khadra’s family’s strict rules come into play when…

Multiculturalism, defined by the Merriam-Webster as the inclusion of many cultures in a society were all cultures identities are reflected is a term that has become widely known nowadays. This term centers on the thought of how a society should respond to cultural and religious differences. It’s important to clarify that the definition multiculturalism does not include complete assimilation and integration, which causes various problems within groups in society. Many citizens from society debate…

derogatory manner. Growing up in West Virginia, a predominantly Caucasian state, Caleb was not exposed to such cultural diversity and thus had no one to tell him that his language would be offensive in the workplace. Caleb simply used the language his peers used in a non-racist or hateful manner; he just did not know he would be offensive to some people. With this, Caleb expressed a low level of cultural competence, “the level of knowledge a person has about others who differ in some way in…

In her article “Why I’m Still Writing Women’s Literary History”, Professor Devoney Looser astutely asserts that women’s literary history is a field that is alive and thriving and therefore deserves to be treated as such. Her argument centers around addressing concerns expressed by various colleagues of hers, and perhaps a common concern many others hold, that the academic field of women’s studies is now “passe” due to taking a “separatist” approach. The article address the reasons why people may…

that would lead to an employee’s personal growth such as wellness, interpersonal communications, and technology skills. The exact training offerings would be determined through a needs survey to employees. The Cultural Competency training program would address cultural sensitivity, cultural norms, and diversity…

Some individuals get to sell traditional artifacts and others may take advantage of tourists need to commute and begin public transport services. However, the interference with other people’s livelihood is what causes the economic and cultural problems, such as cultural erosion, crime, psychological impact, and pollution. Although ethno tourism helps improve the economic stance of the host community given that some individuals find opportunities of self employment, this is not sustainable. The…

Speck was one of the first anthropologists studying eastern and southern American Indians to play an active role in processes of cultural change among his research subjects. Speck’s advocacy anthropology, also sometimes called participant intervention, marked a sharp departure from traditional anthropology, which insisted on maintaining professional distance. Allan Holmberg describes participant intervention as the process in which the investigator’s very presence influences the process he is…

were of great interest to me. Among them, cultural, evolutionary, and social psychology were particularly appealing to me. However, it was cultural psychology that really stood out from the rest. Given that I aspire to someday be a cultural anthropologist, I can hardly say I found this to be surprising. It makes sense that applying the same cultural focus, that I have always had a strong interest in, to psychology would successfully appeal to me. Cultural psychology is a specialty that studies…