Cultural norms

Richard Rodriguez believes that the Americanization of a bilingual child will result in their public gain. “Aria” by Richard Rodriguez is a heart-wrenching piece of writing about the full Americanization of Rodriguez resulting in his native language of Spanish being forgotten and the full submersion into the English language. Many of the events Rodriguez faced in his life are present to many other bilingual students’ today. These events that bilingual students’ are facing will strongly influence…

The concept of generation has evolved throughout times, expanding globally and socially on a vast area of interest. The global generations have encountered major traumatic events which are now historical in the 20th century. In fact, the growth of global communication, broadcast, and technology has enhanced the way people communicate from national wide standpoint. As well as technology itself, varies of device such as television, radio, automobiles have been invented during those times to make…

To this day, Mao Zedong remains the most potent figure in the public imagination of the People’s Republic of China. Mao was a founding member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the ideological progenitor of Chinese socialism, a commander in the war of resistance against Japan, the revolutionary leader of the People’s Republic of China, and its longest serving leader. Even in the years after his death, from 1976 to 1991, Mao was used to frame the ensuing power struggle for leadership of China…

products of the society’s upbringing and that there is no moral code that is superior to another moral code because of the drastically different cultures each society possesses. Therefore, relativists believe it is intolerant of us to judge other cultural practices as immoral, unethical, or wrong. Opponents of relativism argue that if relativism were to be adopted, we would not be able to say the actions of another society is bad . Furthermore, if relativism were to be adopted, our belief of…

agree with is known as Cultural Relativism. This view states that “moral standards are relative to cultures or societies.” (Shafer-Landau, 293) I like this view because I believe that people should be able to live their lives according to their own moral standards. Cultural groups and societies should be able to dictate what is good and what is bad on their own. A moral code should not have to be validated by a god, people can be the authors of morality. The views of Cultural Relativism are very…

Chinese Marxists to interpret the dramatist and his plays” (Sun 21). In the pursuit of becoming a communist country China used the Soviet Union as a model. China followed the Soviet Union “in every aspect ranging from political and economic orders to cultural appreciations,” (Sun 21). With this interest in following Marx and Russia, Chinese scholars took great interest in Shakespeare, and interpreting plays in the light of humanism. Mao encouraged everyone at the Talks at the Yan’an Forum on…

The perception of marriage has changed drastically since the beginning of the 1900s to present day. A significant amount of this can be attributed to the experiences and events faced in each generation. As authors Neil Howe and William Strauss explore in their study, “The Next 20 Years: How Customer and Workforce Attitudes Will Evolve” insight into how each generation has influenced the other with its new developments of values and perceptions is provided, thus ultimately giving reason to why…

It stuck me when I read Moran, Harris, Moran (2011, p31) “You have to acknowledge cultural differences without becoming paralyzed by them.” I therefore started a corrective measure of learning to live with other cultures. At first I discovered that most of my problems were direct interpretation of situations in my culture, comparing it…

Millennials are Changing the World. I am a Millennial. My generation is becoming the most influential generation of consumers, citizens, and employees. Generation Y is changing the basics of rental market and representing the new work force in the global market. Meet Ksenia: my good friend and also an educated and skilled millennial in New York, who moved back in with her parents after she spend a year trying to live on her own. Like many girls of her age, she moved to the heart of an apple…

changes within a group, individuals’ changes might vary significantly as a part of these collective changes. The theory emphasizes factors prior and during the process of acculturation (pre-arrival and post-arrival) as well as highlights group and cultural (i.e. political context) and social/psychological (social factors, language proficiency) variables that influence the acculturation experience (Berry, 2005). Within Berry’s model, the two dimensions of heritage-culture retention and…