Culture of Laos

Name: Zichao Lan SID: 861120291 English 1B Instructor: Colin Innes The First Paper Question: The paper is based on question 2 and 4 under the Critical Writing Questions. Lao-Tzu, the Idealistic Sage and His Utopia Preface Before starting to write the main paper, please allow me to write a preface for this essay because this topic is special and important to me. Although I majored in Chinese History and Chinese…

school I was good, as neat with my homework as any other girl and just as well behaved. At home I stole food, sulked in my grandmother’s closet…” (Nguyen, 2007, P. 58). I found that majority immigrants and refugees struggle with adjusting to two culture and blending their identities to fit especially at a young…

worst stereotypes of American cultures. Aibel and Berger, writers of the animated sitcom King of the Hill, made a very poignant statement in the episode “Westie Side Story”, when a Laotian family moves into the small Texas community (1997). The main character Hank Hill innocently asks his neighbor, “So, are you Chinese or Japanese?” His neighbor, Kahn Souphanousinphone, replies, “I live in California last twenty years, but I first come from Laos.” The country of Laos does not register with…

Our world is made up of many different cultures and it would not be how it is today without these different cultures. Some cultures believe they are superior to others and this results in cultural differences and barriers. In Anne Fadiman’s book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, she explains cultural barriers that can develop through cultural differences, when one culture enters into another culture’s area. Fadiman writes about the Hmong culture entering the United States and evaluates…

50). Basically, ethnocentrism is judging another culture as inferior to one’s own based upon the values set in one’s own cultural group. Thus, people from one culture might judge those of another culture in such aspects as behavior, religion, and language. I experienced a typical example of ethnocentrism on my trip back home last Christmas. A friend of mine decided to join me…

writings and the center of life debates, with a diversity of perspectives that reflect time and culture. The earliest great thinkers include Kong Qiu 孔丘, who is more commonly referred to as Confucius; and Daoist sage, Lao Tzu 老子, commonly referred to as the Daodejing (Penny & Ryden, 2008). Here, intellect and logic combined to produce profound, guiding principles that have expanded beyond the Asian culture and remained as models of wisdom in disciplines of thought, behavior, and purpose…

new country, they will have their own culture, and it can change after time is passed over, but it is not completely change. It just meshes with another culture. According to the book, “East Eat West”, by Andrew Lam, he said, “the theme of hybridity is central to a global society, and a large part of that entails accommodating one’s tongue to the delectable world’s zests and zings.” He mentions how cultures can mesh together as one, which are language, cultures, food, and other things. In other…

Within Hmong culture, the seizures that Lia was having were actually a spirit, a daab, that entered her body. This is known as quag dab peg, the spirit catches you and you fall down. The Hmong see this as a gift and people who experiences quag dab peg are seen as important…

Introduction The growing diversity in a country poses a constant challenge to health care workers. The hodgepodge of peoples and culture creates a mosaic of cultural dynamics. These cultural dynamics could be a potential source of conflict between the patient and the healthcare providers like physical therapists (PTs), doctors, and nurses. The diversity between the healthcare provider and the patient could impact their decision-making, interaction, relationship, health outcomes and the quality…

History Tattooing has been practiced for centuries in many cultures and spread throughout the world The Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, traditionally had facial tattoos, as did theAustroasians. Today, one can find Atayal, Seediq, Truku, and Saisiyat of Taiwan, Berbers of Tamazgha (North Africa), Yoruba, Fulani and Hausa people of Nigeria, and Māori of New Zealand with facial tattoos. Tattooing was popular among certain ethnic groups in southern China, Polynesia, Africa, Borneo, Cambodia,…