Hawaiian Pidgin

When one has power over another, one has the ability to make them feel isolated from a variety of experiences. The struggle between power and alienation is present in a wide range of human experiences. It takes a different form depending on the experience. The struggle can occur between a teacher and a student, and two different cultures. An example of this struggle, between a teacher and student, is displayed in the essay, “The Banking Method,” by Paulo Friere. The teacher is given the power…

immigrants who worked on Hawaiian plantations were considered inferior; they were at the bottom of the social hierarchy and served a role as cheap labor. As a result of a mixed and diverse community, pidgin English developed. However, although despite seeming as a creative solution as a means of communication, it became a social marker back then for those that are poor and lack culture. As a result, children born on plantations who had no other choice but to learn pidgin English became victims…

“White” Like Me At the heart of American culture is the concept of racism; a continuous cycle perpetuated through years of injustice by slavery, violence, segregation, and hatred. Much like the symbolic “tree of life”, racism’s roots extend deep into the earth, drawing sustenance from each member of society. Yet in that survival tactic, it unconsciously steals a little more from one side—this is white privilege. “White privilege” is a mere social construction by which the dominant white…

A Comparative Analysis of a Casual Conversation and a Formal Interview INTRODUCTION In the following paper, I provide a comparative analysis of a casual conversation and a formal interview based on an approach to ethnography of communication as discussed by Saville-Troike (1997). After a brief review of related studies of these two communicative event types, I present the focus and the framework of the current study. Next, I present a comparative analysis of the two communicative events using…

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