Linguistic Society of America

The United States is known as a country of immigrants. For centuries, people have immigrated to the U.S. from all over the world. With this knowledge, I was shocked when I came to America and witnessed how immigrants and people different from main-stream middle class families are treated. I especially became aware that I was different and that I might be treated differently. While I know that ethnocentrism is not only found in the United States, I did not expect some of the harsh treatments that…

disconnect between culture and education serving as the fundamental cause of the achievement gap. For example, “Canadian research continues to affirm that membership in the white middle-class group afford individual within this group certain privileges in society, while those outside of this group experience challenges…” Therefore, according to Die, “many researchers, in Canada and internationally, have found that unequally structured material and social conditions contribute to the success of…

In many classrooms across America today, race and ethnicity are very much on the table. Teachers dream of seeing their students discuss difference in a constructive way. Some educators actively encourage their classes to get outside their comfort zones and confront the country’s racial history, but I ask myself after reading McIntosh’s Interactive Phases of Curricular and Personal Re-Vision Model, how much was race and ethnicity practice in the classroom long ago when I was in elementary. I can…

The history of the early Atlantic world is one of interactions between very different societies: Western Europeans, Africans, and Indigenous Americans. Prior to the dawn of exploration, each of these societies functioned in a largely independent state of the others, and thus developed strikingly different forms of culture, language, religion, and customs. Due to these broad differences, exploration and colonization often led to conflict, and sometimes the complete annihilation of a societal…

A person’s health literacy is determined by that person’s capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make the appropriate health decisions. Two of the biggest influences that can determine a person’s health literacy are culture and education. In “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by Anne Fadiman and “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot, there are many displays of how the roles of culture and education impact the lives…

While some may be inclined to believe certain dialects, (southern, Boston, etc.,) simply demonstrate improper English and grammar, these ways of speaking more often than not follow specific rules and tendencies as concrete as those in standard written English. However, those who are not in tune with the language style of the group typically get treated as outsiders. Furthermore, language transcends just written and spoken word, the content, and style with which a particular group chooses to…

Caribs, the enslaved African to the current situation of the creole vernacular which is an amalgam of lost languages in that zone. Also the language of the masses there is entirely different from the acrolectal type used by the upper class in that society. The Creole speakers have resisted any attempt to make them speak the acrolectal…

and violation of an ethnic individual’s right to equality. Overall, through various examples shown throughout Geri-Ann Galanti’s case study, I think there is enough evidence to support the idea that Hindus are better off having their child in America; as opposed to India. But at the same time, her case also shined the spotlight on how things can be difficult if there is no open communication between the doctor and the patient. Things such as knowing what is important to the patient and how…

the United States because fishing is far more practical than raising land animals in Japan and in Italy their eat pasta and it is one of the most popular dish in Italy. Cultural variations become obvious when put side by side in big multicultural societies. Many countries are highly populated by immigrants and the culture is influenced by many groups of people that make up a country. As countries develop and grow so does their cultural variation. Cultural variation refers to the differences in…

belief or action, that belief or action becomes more sought after or highly publicized, though this generally would not be the outcome to be expected (Weeks, 25). He also states that in highly industrialized countries, such as the United States of America, there has been a shift in regulation; no longer are we primarily controlled by religion standards, but rather through education, medicine, psychology, and…