Culture

Puerto Rico’s Culture, History, and Food What is Culture? Culture is a series of visual manifestations and interactions with the environment that make a region different from the rest of the world. Culture is the combination of values, beliefs, and practices of a particular group. Puerto Rico is a beautiful country with rich cultural diversity. Although, Puerto Rico is the smallest of the Greater Antilles. Puerto Rico is made up of the Main Island surrounding smaller islands. Being a…

Myth & Legend—Myth of the Cowboy Culture- When many tourists around the world visits Texas to explore, they all have a very interesting question to ask from the Texas citizens and that would be what makes Texas culture so extraordinary? And the answer to this question certainly would be the “Cowboys” from them. They would not be mentioning to the famous “Dallas Cowboys” of football legend, but they are referring to the cowboy culture that seems to spread throughout the state. Many tourists visit…

Over periods of time cultures continually shift and change. There are different political levels of culture that categorize people groups by their stratification, kinship, and economic stature “When culture first began on Earth, all societies were organized at the band level as foraging societies. Over time, various cultures became increasingly more complex while others remained bands” (“Cultural Anthropology Lecture 2, 2016: p1). Each of these cultural levels has positive and negative social…

3.2.1 Value of Tolerance The value of tolerance may cover the attitudes and actions that are addressed to respect differences in religion, tribe, ethnicity, opinion, attitude, and acts from other people. Data 2 "We have returned, Our Lord,” said Beru Pitu Jalan (BPJ). "So when you get back, let's go to the house. What news do you bring from Purba Kalak village? he said. "Oh, my Lord, she does not have any weakness, I thinks. The way she walks and she swings her hands looks like a valley…

Business Culture in America America holds 300 million people of mixed race and heritage, making us the third largest country in the world of a multicultural mosaic. America there are seven different categories when it comes to the culture of business that should be taken into consideration. First, there are the basic concepts. Then, Communication Styles. Next, time is money. Followed by, meetings. Then, negotiations and contracts. And finally, business language. All seven of this aspect play a…

An opening to another culture, another place, leads you to not only become more culturally competent and have a wider global perspective, but it encourages one to critique parts of their own culture. As a result of the 4 months of distance, the salience of their national identity probably transformed in their host country as they reflected more about personal qualities which defined them as individuals, rather than membership in a national group (Savicki & Cooley, 2011, p. 347). With limited…

Culture shock is when someone is introduced to a culture that is unlike the culture they consider to be normal, and they will most likely start to experience some kind of psychological disorientation. Ferraro first gives us his definition of culture shock which is pretty much the same definition everyone now uses to explain culture shock. He says that culture shock is a kind of disorientation someone experiences when they are introduced into a new culture which Ferraro explains could result in…

Some would say that our individual groups of cultures that survive in this world is what identifies us as individuals, however there are some contradictions. Throughout the decades of humans living in isolated cultures and developing their own languages there now seems to be the idea of a global culture that could be shared by us all through the process of sharing languages, cultures, developing new technologies that help us to connect with others globally, and from globalization. This method of…

countries that have different cultures, it is vital to focus on the definition of culture and to indicate the distinctions between western and non-western cultures. In particular, culture has two different meanings. The first definition refers to the learned knowledge that is passed on from people of a certain culture. The second definition refers to a group of people who have similar ideas, practices, beliefs and so much more that is particular to a certain culture (Heine, 2012). There are main…

Traditional folk culture evolved for thousands of years, carefully stored and inherited many generations. Its uniqueness is evident in everything: in the content and in the methods of storage, transmission, distribution. It has deep historical roots. In what consequence it is necessary to revive and preserve the cultural traditions to the younger generation. We live in a time of crisis - political, social, economic, environmental, but the most terrible crisis - moral. Therefore, it is necessary…