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In the American land, a democratic country that believe in freedom, many first generation Chinese immigrants have a big generational distance with their American-born children. Since they were born and grown up in China, they was adopted to their motherland’s culture. Therefore, it’s hard for them to adjust back to the American culture. In the short stories, I select Monfoon Leong, Darrell Lum, and Hsien-Yung Pai to analysis how they deal with a similar issue －cultural maintenance－ in their…

In my perspective, based on the knowledge I have acquired, culture is basically a specific way of living for a particular society or civilization. According to the Centre for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, the term culture refers to the cognitive constructs, collective patterns of conduct and communication and affective comprehension that are learnt through the process known as Socialization. In this essay the two distinct cultures (Saudi Arabia and Trinidad and Tobago) will be…

“Language is the capacity to gain and utilize complex frameworks of correspondence, especially the human capacity to do as such, and a language is a particular case of such a framework. The logical investigation of language is called linguistics” Estimating the quantity of languages in the world vary between 5,000 and 7,000. Common languages are talked or marked, however any language can be encoded into auxiliary media utilizing sound-related, visual, or material jolts. For instance, in…

Obi is proud of his language, when he was in England “nothing gave him greater pleasure than to find another Ibo-speaking student in a London bus.” So he can speak in his mother tongue; asserting his identity in front of the others, and “when he had to speak English with a Nigerian student from another tribe he lowered his voice”; because of the shame speaking to one’s countryman in the colonizer’s language brings. (Ibid, p.39) Language thus here is not only a source of pride but also a tool of…

David Crystal begins with “Why a global language?” by asking what it means for a language to have a global status, what merits and demerits makes a global language, and “Why we need a global language?” David Crystal propose that “a language become a global language because of the political and military power of its people” when people use a language as an official language in purposes of communication, international marketing and advertising, in the law court, in media and in educational system…

Afrobeat was an invention of highlife, jazz, and Black American soul music That is when Fela’s new genre of music Afrobeat started to be the core of his activism. “He sang in “pidgin English,” a mix of Nigerian slang and broken English so that everyone could understand. It was a way to break down lofty philosophy so that the message was clear without compromising the complexities of the…

Growing up in a Hawaiian/white family I have always been surrounded by both cultures; from experiencing what it means to be a local in Hawaii, to experiencing a Haole (or white) culture. I have seen it all in regards to how each culture is different, along with how each culture reacts to one another; however, there is one issue, that when observing both sides of these cultural backgrounds, we see repeated over and over again between the two-that issue is racism. “Prejudice and discrimination…

Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie uses her personal life and experiences to illustrate the danger of reducing other people and cultures to a single story rather than recognizing that we all have overlapping, multiple stories. She begins her talk by discussing her childhood in Nigeria, moves on to her experience as an African woman in the U.S., and then discusses the Nigerian experience today. As a child growing up in a university campus in eastern Nigeria, Adichie loved reading and writing.…

The introduction of the New World initially brought upon the use of indentured slaves for cheap labor which was an effective system for a time. Demographically there became a high imbalance of birth rates and life spans in the southern colonies in contrast to the New England colonies. Consequently, the southern society was scarce on a labor source. With the discovery of the high in demand cash crop tobacco by Virginian John Rolfe, the south began its heavy reliance on agriculture. To fuel their…

Within the Deaf Community, there are many different opinions on the best way to provide for the Deaf community due to the diverse backgrounds and opinions of Deaf people. The challenges the Deaf community faces can become even more controversial when hearing people attempt to provide solutions without consulting Deaf people on their own culture and suggestions. However, ever since I started learning American Sign Language, the information I learned regarding Deaf culture caused me to develop…