Culture of the United States

In the film Gringos at the Gate director Roberto Donati explains important historical themes within the rivalry between Mexico and the United States national soccer team. In the film he incorporates two significant themes, which are cultural identities and cultural rivalries within the soccer fan base. In Mexico, soccer means more than just a sport for the people because it is more a passion they live in their everyday life. Mexicans take pride in their allegiance to the national soccer team.…

This metaphor is used to help McKay compare American culture to hell. Hell, in a general context, is the place of purest evil and sin. McKay emphasizes American culture to be similar to hell because he knows in the eyes of American society not everyone is equal. During the 1920’s black people received the harsher part of American social inequality. For that reason…

The Importance Of Learning The Language of New Country I still remember when I was in adult school in the United States, I spent a lot of time to tried my best to memorize hundreds of vocabulary words in English.I was hard pressed to read the novel and do the tests with many strange words. I was afraid and felt nervous when thinking about the embarrassment of those awkward moments when I tried to express my idea in front of my classmates because of my limited English skill. When I look…

years there has been there has been political strain psychologically between the United States and China. The Book Blah Blah by Peter Hayes Gries is a political Psychologist that has taken a deeper look into the relationship with China and the United States through a different lens. Gries is not a historian which allows him to use a different form of methodology to study the relationship between China and the United States. Gries uses applied social psychology to explore the topic further. The…

Understanding Latina Political Leadership As said by Sonia Sotomayor, a justice in the Supreme Court in the United States of America, “Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.” Sonia Sotomayor has worked her way up to be the first Latina of the Supreme Court as of 2009. Throughout history, Females have had to work extremely hard to gain the same rights as the white man,…

cultural imperialism. In the second article Ahn affirms young’s theory of cultural imperialism. In the first article, Young explains the theory of cultural imperialism. For example, Young states that “ cultural imperialism involves the universalization of the dominant group’s experience and culture, and its established as the norm”(59). This means that a person is judged by his/her roots in other different perspective of their self. Also in Young’s article…

syndrome is a theory that initiated by Samuel Huntington on his thesis about Clash of Civilization, Kin-country syndrome means states or groups that have the same civilization, and engaged in a war against other groups of different civilizations, in other words a group or state that has the same civilization support each other to combat the different civilizations. And he states that country or group will focus on the relationship, which has the same civilization as they are. In kin-country…

children by eating fast food. These toxic meals should be removed from the market and replace with real happy meals. The fast food meals are incorporated in the culture of the United States. The averages American eat out at a fast food restaurant four to five times at week. Even though, fast foods are toxics people still eat them, the American culture has being lost because of lack of self control. Going to the fast food restaurant is a choice not an obligation. This “happy meals” consists of a…

My family as far as I can remember had always been a migrating family, it started with my great grandparents. My family still migrated early in my childhood. Growing up in a migrating family helped me gain experiences and knowledge of different cultures. Migrating with my family was one of my best childhood memories. Having my cousins sharing the experience with me and making new friends across the country defined who I am today. It has also helped me greatly appreciate what my family does for…

Martin Luther King Jr. and many others did a lot for segregation. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done. Many people have tried to stop segregation, but it is just to difficult. Abraham Lincoln once said, “This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.” As we can see, Abraham Lincoln tried to stop segregation. Slavery was one of the first forms of segregation. Slavery started back about five hundred years ago, and still exists today.…