Cultural region

Although world cultures vary throughout regions, it affects individuals and societies differently. For individuals, culture formulates a sense humanity that creates traditions, self-awareness and orders chaos. For societies culture conveys a collective identity which societies correspondingly utilize…

Puerto Rico’s Culture, History, and Food What is Culture? Culture is a series of visual manifestations and interactions with the environment that make a region different from the rest of the world. Culture is the combination of values, beliefs, and practices of a particular group. Puerto Rico is a beautiful country with rich cultural diversity. Although, Puerto Rico is the smallest of the Greater Antilles. Puerto Rico is made up of the Main Island surrounding smaller islands. Being a…

The track that I chose for my final project is Biological Influences on Personality. The chosen topic is Temperament. Personality is used to determine the differences in behavior patterns. Our personalities are what makes us unique to everyone else. A person’s personality continues to develop throughout their life. One of the factors that influence our personality is our heredity. Heredity refers to the genetic inheritance we develop from our parents. Another influence on our personality is…

Throughout the Cultural Revolution, social life become highly politicalised and unpredictable (Shirk, 1993). Due to the nature of the Cultural Revolution, which placed an unprecedented emphasis on culture, even those without a political background were targeted and branded as ‘class enemies’ due to their professions, interests or…

Mr. China’s Son, is based off of a true story. Written by He Liyi and Claire Anne Chik, it tells the story of one of the authors, He Liyi. As for some basic information about him, he was a Chinese English teacher who lived through the Cultural Revolution whiling belonging to one of China’s minorities, the Bai. He lived in Yunnan Province. What is very unique about his biography, is that it differs from other documentaries. Mr. China’s Son was written in English compared to many other…

later the Cultural Revolution, ‘attacks were launched against people in high positions who inflated their own image and demanded deferential behaviour from subordinates.’53 Mao did this in order to re-affirm his beliefs of supporting the lower class within the Chinese Communist Party. Though these ideological reforms were not at the forefront of the Great Leap Forward, they are still significant in the change that occurred during the period and these reforms also helped lead Mao to his Cultural…

Han Shaogong captures the emotion and experiences of the Cultural Revolution, and the Down to the Countryside Movement from the perspective of an educated youth in his novel, “A Dictionary of Maqiao.” In the novel, the reader follows an educated youth as he travels to the countryside as a part of Mao’s “Down to the Countryside Movement.” The “Down to the Countryside Movement” was an effort by Mao Zedong to eradicate the anti-bourgeois thinking that he believed was prevalent in his country. Mao…

Overflowing with dramatization, grievousness and loathsomeness, this phenomenal family story of life and death mirrors China 's century of turbulence through the eyes of Jung Chang 's three generations of family: her grandmother, mother and inevitably a life account of herself. In this book, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, we get to see the painful effects of Mao’s personality cult, and his painful policies. At age of two, Yu-fang, Jung Chang 's grandmother had her feet bounded. She was…

Margaret Mead was a popular American writer, cultural, and visual anthropologist. Throughout her career, Margaret Mead has also conducted over twenty field trips (Yans-McLaughlin 2000). In addition, Mead’s fieldwork focused on the development and growth of adolescents. The reason why I chose Margaret Mead is because of the tremendous contributions that she has made to the field of anthropology and the public. In addition, I find it very astounding that Mead “offers a resolution of the old…

The terms ‘nation’ and ‘nationalism’ are part of everyday jargon and are inevitably interlinked. Nation commonly refers to a community of people that are associated with a particular territory or region and have been brought together as a result of the conjunction of psychological, cultural and political factors. These may also include literature, history, language, customs and religion. It is these elements that help people become conscious of a shared identity and brings within them a sense of…