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    men are treated in society and how elite members in the United States react and attempt to mend the problem of racial profiling. The overall argument in Loury’s work is that racial profiling exists and needs to be eradicated. If racial profiling was eradicated then the mistreatment of Black American men would decrease while their impact towards society would exponentially increase. “Obama, Gates and…

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    “ Venganse para el Norte aquí van a tener una mejor vida” (Come to the North you guys will have a better life here.) My parents came to The United States of America in 2000 pursuing the American Dream. The American Dream for my parents is for me to have a better education and attend college. My family has helped me shaped my dreams because I have seen how much they have to go through because they did not have a good education. Seeing my parents struggle daily is really heartbreaking knowing I…

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    Luck Club PDI is used to indicate the degree of acceptance of people in a culture for inequality in the distribution of power. In general, Asia has a higher PDI, the usual reaction of Chinese for inequality is to endure, to obey the authority, and they are educated to obey their parents. While Western countries have a lower PDI, they have a strong resistance to the inequality in power distribution. Chinese and the United States’ PDI of the gap is obvious. The differences between Woo Jingmei’s…

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    connected through a variety of languages and cultures. There are 7 continents on Earth. Each are broken into countries, states, cities, and regions. Each differ from each other in multiple ways. In the united states alone is made up of 50 states, all culturally different. Although all the millions of people who live in the United States are all interrelated due to the fact that we all live in the same country, but we all differ in the language we speak and our culture. Text such as The Joy Luck…

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    some variance in what students read from school to school. Many countries have a set literary canon that requires all high school students to read the same books, no matter what school they go to because these books are deemed important. In the United States there is not a national curriculum, so the texts that students read may be different at different schools. Whether or not a canon should be implemented is a topic that is commonly discussed, and one that is associated with controversy.…

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    escalated into a large scaled war that had an army of over half a million American soldiers. The American involvement in Vietnam started slowly. During the first Vietnam War that was fought between Vietnam and France following World War II, the United States provided over two billion dollars in aid to the French with the hopes of defeating the communist Vietminh. Ultimately the French were defeated…

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    speaker says, however, it is hard for her to express her words. In the essay, “The F word”, by Firoozeh Dumas illustrates her personal anecdote to describe the societal problems. She describes that her family is one immigrant who comes to the United States and faces many challenges to fit the land. Dumas argues that it was extremely difficult for them to settle. American often judges them because of their…

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    There has always been a difference when it comes to race and ethicality when it comes to political attitudes. In the United States, it seems you are either a supporter for republicans or democratic. Many individuals would probably agree that culture contributes to the political attitudes. A way a person is socialized in the world affects their views. For instance, if your parents are conservative than most like you will be conservative. Therefore, this research will focus on a Hispanics as an…

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    industry, and therefore a diminished local culture. Morley examines and evaluates the thesis and its four main limits, which include discussion on the flow direction of media products in international communication, the approach of glocalisation that cultural exporters adopt, issues on cultural protectionism and ‘active’ media consumers.…

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    Cultural context in “who’s Irish.” Culture is the characteristic and knowledge of a particular group of people; national identity has been the main reason as to why countries exist and disparities between individual countries exist too. Immigrants over a long period of time have moved to the United States to work, develop businesses or enjoy freedom. The United States of America has been known for a long time to be a great country that welcomes any individual regardless of race, color or gender.…

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