Cultural relativism

In 1840 the Qing dynasty was in control of the Chinese government. China was threatened by the British and Western Barbarians. This resulted in what is known as the Opium War. The British government was exporting Opium to China. Chinese citizens were getting addicted to opium and eventually the Chinese government stopped opium import from Great Britain. This hurt the British economy and resulted in a war between the two countries. At the end of the Opium War China was forced to give up land and…

In my effort of finding an advertisement for my critique, I have discovered that the advertisement of the past have been more controversially filled then those of present time. The ad that I chose was one of eye rising, controversy, and outrageously extreme. The advisement of a product such as chocolate would have one thinking of pleasure, delight, pampering one’s self or a significant other, or merely a sweet memory of one’s childhood receiving an intriguing treat such as eating chocolate for…

British cultural studies, the field was majorly oriented toward political problems. Hoggart, Williams and Hall chose to enter into the educational arena because it “was the social and cultural form in which they saw the possibility of reuniting what had been in their personal histories disrupting: the value of higher education and the persistent educational deprivation of the majority of their own originary [sic] or affiliated class” (“Uses of Culture” 25). The formation of British cultural…

American’s First Amendment gives us many significant freedoms such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to assembly, Communist China doesn’t have any of these freedoms if it goes against the People’s Government. In Fan Shen’s book, Gang of One Memoirs of a Red Guard, he had no rights to believe or say anything different from what the government wants. Shen is born and grows in a Chinese Communist family in Red China, and he tries to escape the legal way because if he doesn’t it…

This is due to the hybridity of their cultural identities. As the authors mentioned, “They [the students] had strong bicultural ties between Mexico and the United states” (this statement could also apply to almost any other cultural background). From this quote, I can derive that this back and forth between the two cultures creates a hybrid identity that does not allow the person to…

All students should have access to a diverse staff. The Assessment of Diversity in America’s Teaching Force (2004) states that more minority teachers would provide opportunities for all students to learn about ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity, and serve as cultural brokers, able not only to help students navigate their school environment and culture, but also to increase the involvement of other teachers and parents. It is important for all students to interact with people who look and…

The use of culture area concept is believed to be easier to understand than abstract language relations that cannot be visualized as clearly as culture areas on a map. The culture concept map has changed into more or less cultural divisions over time, but Harold Driver and William Massey created the most definitive system that is used today, which breaks North America into 10 primary culture areas (Sage 2016). Anthropologist, Clark Wissler (1927) comments that there are negatives…

Everyone shops. We all have the urge to buy things for ourselves whether we need them or not. Most stores we shop at have surveillance equipment to protect themselves, and the customer, should a crime occur. Since the customer is filmed someone out there figured why not study this footage and that is where Retail Anthropology comes in. As The Free Dictionary online states, “Retail Anthropology [is] the study of consumers ' shopping habits in order to choose the best locations for new retail…

Should members of cultural minorities be encouraged to maintain their cultural traditions, or to assimilate into American culture? According to sociologist Louis Wirth, “a minority is a group of people who, because of their physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment, and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination”. A portion of America thinks that cultural minorities…

The Current State of New Zealand Tourism: Years ago, if someone mentioned New Zealand in a sentence, they wouldn’t know where it is or what you were talking about. Now New Zealand has grown, and is still growing today. One of the biggest reason now that New Zealand has been recognized more is because of our tourism industry. Tourism is one of New Zealand’s biggest export industries earing $11.8 billion of New Zealand’s current exchange earnings. New Zealand has a reputation of this clean green…