Culture of the United States

American culture is known as all of the different cultures of the word that have come together, and is always changing and conforming to the immigrants. Today, all over the United States, we see that there is a major impact of Latinos throughout our culture. Some of the different ways that we see an impact of Latinos throughout our culture is in music, food, television, and civil rights. One main impact that Latinos have made on the American Culture would be through music. In the late…

directed towards belittling a culture and its people. This act directed through media such and identity show how even today colorization affects us. The article Latinidad in Prime-Time News Coverage of the Elian Gonzalez story, shows a symbolic view of colonization by establishing social order when something in the news that must only do with the Latinas/os culture it is only newsworthy if it shows a threat to society as being dangerous. The media use these stereotypes to a culture attaching…

holiday with a family of a different culture than yours? The Chinese narrator of “Fish Cheeks” celebrated Christmas Eve dinner with a United States family. The diverse cultures become evident throughout the short story. Culture diversity only makes one’s culture more unique. The diversity between Chinese and United States culture is unique and is easily shown in “Fish Cheeks.” Chinese customs, traditions, and popular holiday food differ greatly from United States customs, traditions, and…

Country music is a genre of the United States popular music that has originated in the Southern and Southeastern United States in the year of 1920. Country music takes the roots of several music genres from the southeastern part of the United States known as Blues music, folk music, and western music. Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes. Country music features instruments such as banjos, mandolins, guitars, fiddles, harmonicas, accordions, dulcimers, acoustic bass, jaw harp,…

the other hand, in his From Culture War: The Myth of a Polarized America, Morris Fiorina argues that these ideologies and attitudes depict a closely divided electorate. While bias is almost certain in any poll, after an analysis…

millenniums. The United States of America is filled with pride and love toward the nation and contains patriotism in almost every aspect. George Orwell writes in the novel 1984 about a dystopian society where everyone loves the Party and their nation Oceania. The United States of America and the nation of Oceania both hold a great sense of patriotism throughout both nations however the patriotism in each country is extremely different. In the novel 1984, Oceania was formed when the United…

the Arabic Culture on the American Culture Every culture has different categories, habits, history, and civilization that made this culture be famous. There are many ancient civilization in the world such as: The Roman, Greek, Babylonian, and Egyptian. Every culture can influence on the other cultures in different shapes. There are several reasons for the influence of the Arabic culture on the American culture such as: art, language, and food. The first influence of the Arabic culture on the…

depending on where they live. Some elders are honored and celebrated, like in Korea. Whereas, in the United states, when a person becomes old, they are expected to go to a nursing home, where they will be cared for. In The Giver, elders live at The House of the Old, but are not cared for by their family. They are cared for by the people that work there, and by volunteers. The articles “7 Cultures That Celebrate Aging And Respect Their Elders” and “How the elderly are treated around the world”…

According to Andersen Margaret and Taylor Howard in their book titled the Essential of sociology, Ethnocentrism is judging people or things based on our own beliefs, cultures and experiences. On the other hand, Cultural relativism stipulates that there is nothing right or wrong if we see things based on the cultural context. September 11th was a very devastating day in America due to the destruction of the world trade Centre and the loss of thousands souls. Ethnocentrism might have contributed…

foreigners who had dreams of coming to the United States in order to become an American. As the Industrial Revolution hit the United States, industries began to double in size and become more prosperous; however, the rapid growth of immigrants in the United States met that need for laborers. According to Emma Lazarus’s poem, the Statue of Liberty was symbolized as a welcoming signal to the millions of immigrants that were fleeing to the United States in search of a new life. During the…