English culture

The Disasters of Official English The chinese kid and the kid with the Indian accent play with their classmates, everything seems great, all laughs and smiles. However, these two children can no longer speak to their families from back home; they do not even remember the customs of their culture that they once practiced. These boys feel lost like they do not belong with all of their friends. The chinese kid and the Indian kid came to America with their parents and were forced to assimilate to…

Culture learning leads to awareness of cultural practices both in individualistic and collectivist societies. Acceptance or rejection of others’ way of life depends on individual learners who may be greatly influenced by their own culture, language and religion. Cultural knowledge and awareness through direct or indirect exposure via learning materials may groom the learners who later may have to travel to the target language countries for study, work or leisure. To withstand culture shock, L2…

advances in transportation, communication, and technology. However, the transfer to modernity has cause unfortunate setbacks regarding traditional people and their well-being. The reality being that most of indigenous tribes were forced to give up their culture or have been effected by globalization. These ideals have been extremely detrimental in terms of the loss in language and tradition among the indigenous people. The way cultural was stripped away from them has put forth the state of…

altered in the future, can be created to benefit a society, and can influence on cultures as to how people will see the world. How these things happen will be explained as follows. According to McWhorter’s (2015) article, he believes that within time, the linguistic world will be different than what it is today. He states that the current 6000 spoken languages around the world will be reduced to just 600 by 2115. English remains the popular language in the world and it is believed that it will…

Communication of Respect in Interethnic Service Encounters; Language, Race and White Public Space; and The Whiteness of Nerds: Superstandard English and Racial Markedness are articles that represent the notion of cultural linguistics practices and cultural identities. Every culture has its own linguistics differences and way of representing its values, but as it can be seen in the articles those linguistics differences and racial marks, can often lead to social differences and conflicts between…

Cultural Perspective Because ‘Integrated Approach’ deals with both the source culture and the target culture, it could be seen as a feasible translation theory of Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk. The cultural factors play an important role in modern Chinese literature. With the influence of western cultures, China experienced a transformation of literature in terms of linguistic forms and contents. Scholars such as Lu Xun proposed that vernaculars should be used. In addition, the focus of modern…

the time, our own cultures are invisible to us (Greenfield, Raeff, & Quiroz, 1996; Philips, 1983), yet they are the context within which we operate and make sense of the world” (Pachecho, Trumbull 10). In other words, one’s culture always strongly informs the way one views others and the world. Although others believe that one’s culture and personal decisions are two opposite things, one culminates all of the ideas, values, and beliefs he or she is taught through his or her culture to form all…

economics/the need to acquire goods. Economics has always been a huge part in building empires, economics has brought cultures together for the good and the bad and economics have brought people too new lands. Economics have always been a huge part in building successful empires. In order for a civilization to become more powerful they are going…

There are many cultural groups in the world. Two for example is the Zulu group, the largest culture in South Africa, and Mexicans from Mexico. These are two entirely different cultures in many ways and yet in many ways they are very similar in their child rearing ways. The most popular or, common thing about Zulu are the colorful beads, baskets and carvings. Their child rearing beliefs are different and amazing from Mexicans. There is a lot of illiteracy there, meaning not being able…

been adapted for hundreds of unique cultures and societies. In the past, language was developed based on individual societies because travel and communication were extremely limited. We see the effects of this today because of the many languages used around the world. Each region is seen as synonymous with a particular language and dialect. Language has developed into another method of distinguishing between cultures. However, with the progression of time, cultures have become intertwined across…