English culture

children to go to church, speak English, and act as if they were white as well. This behavioural correctional often led the kids to be confused and in some cases, turn a blind eye on their own culture. This was the case with Kay who, when taken away received a distorted and close-minded perception of what should and shouldn’t be. It was because of this teaching that caused Kay to turn her back on her family completely and adapt to the white people’s ways, abandoning the culture that she had…

Americans have defined themselves not by their racial, religious, and ethnic identity but by their common values and belief in individual freedom. As these two writers "Dwight Okita" and "Sandra Cisneros" were highly influenced by the American culture remind us how it was in the 1800s. "In Response to Executive Order 9066: All Americans of Japanese Descent Must Report to Relocation Centers” by Dwight Okita, and “Mericans” by Sandra Cisneros published experiences about the topic of American…

scientific racism indefensible, the population was still divided along racial lines after 1945. (Ward 124) Moreover, there was a racialisation in the concept of British national identity. (Ward 50) In 1947, Sir Ernest Baker came up with the idea of the English gentleman whom he attributed with chivalry and manliness, which was advanced by Geoffrey Gorer who named gentleness, tolerance and abiding the law as central to Englishness. (Ward 51) Those ideals created a unity amongst the British…

Traditional crime stories have changed over time due to the values and changing contexts within different societies. The film ‘Rear Window’ composed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954, America and the short detective story ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’ in the novel ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1891, England illustrate how the values and changing contexts within a society contributes to the changing conventions of the genre of crime. Crime texts are valued and…

I began to explore the Providers Guide to Quality and Culture database, where I watched a series of videos that consisted of scenarios where health care providers, in different cross-cultural encounters, used their competency knowledge to tailor their services towards patients. Through these examples I was able to learn that just having knowledge of a cultures background is not enough. I was able to identify in the video factors that need to be integrated…

driven rituals and ceremonies that shape human behaviour. The rituals and ceremonies establish Horace Miner’s view of Nacirema as American spelt backwards. Initially, Horace Miner views the American culture through magical powers that establish the creation of the culture. Therefore, the Nacirmea culture originates from the Canadian Cree, Yaqui, Tarahumare of Mexico, the Carib and Arawak of the Antilles, which the origin comes from the natives who first landed in America. However, Nacirema comes…

com munication and behavior (2nd ed.). St. Paul, MN: International Education Systems. 2. Building business relationships and gift giving -Japan. (n.d.). Retrieved May 20, 2015, from http://news.telelangue.com/en/2012/01/gifts-japan 3. Business Culture in Japan. (n.d.). Retrieved May 20, 2015, from http://www.worldbusinessculture.com/Women-in-Business-in-Japan.html 4. Debbie Pollitt. Japanese Verbal Communication. Retrieved from:…

International Students in America Travelling to a different place and experiencing different culture, language and traditions is a unique experience and everyone should try it. It gives you a better view of the world, enhancing your knowledge and widening our perspective. Keeping the same reason in mind, students go around the world to study in different countries to experience different culture and life styles. But, in this journey there are lot of obstacles or anti-intellectualism which…

Using the Iceberg concept of culture, culture is commonly divided into 2 categories: surface culture and deep culture. Deep culture, just like an iceberg where the majority of the ice is found below sea level, is the majority of culture. To lay down the difference between those 2 in the simplest of terms, deep culture consists of beliefs, values, assumptions, and thought processes which are much harder to detect and identify, while surface culture, on the other hand, consists of behaviours,…

comes out at the end of it all, complete loss of culture shapes identity and something unidentifiable takes its place. For Lefty to keep his job at the factory he had to participate in a pageant, the "Ford English School Melting Pot", in which they must take off their 'immigrant costumes" and dress in "blue and gray suits... waving American flags" (104-105). At that point in time and even to this day there is a glorification of one's destruction of culture and ethnic identity, clear in the…