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Black Elk Speaks is a personal narrative that encompasses an autobiography of Black Elk’s life as a holy man and healer coupled with the tribal history of the lifestyle, and tough challenges that Native Americans faced during the westward expansion movement of white settlers. In the beginning of the book unravel the first unique cultural practice of the Lakota people. That is, before telling his story Black Elk invites Neihardt (the author of the book) to smoke with him the red willow bark in…

what the US is striving to be today. The US is home to people of many different cultures and ethnicities. These different groups coexist in one nation and by doing so they expose all people to a plethora of customs and beliefs. Each cultural identity is kept intact even through frequent interaction which garners open mindedness and acceptance of each other. The issue with this model is that given the diversity of cultures, true cultural pluralism is difficult to achieve. Especially when there…

Trying to adapt to a new culture can be troubling, stressful, and a lot of other things. St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell is a story about a pack of girls that are sent to St. Lucy’s to rehabilitate and to eradicate their wolf identity. Claudette is the main character of the story and the story and the narrator. The story talks about how Claudette, along with other members of the pack, develops their human characteristics. The story also talks about how Claudette’s…

Diverse and vibrant, the city of Valdosta is a vivid example of authentic southern culture. Traditional values like honor, hospitality, and personal independence meld in perfect harmony with the pluralism encouraged by a modern college town. While some aspects of historically southern culture will likely never be destroyed, the very nature of culture is not static, but fluid, and constantly evolving. There are many preconceptions about southerners, but the Valdosta/Lowndes County region has…

Has anything has change on how people themselves belong to. Is it people decisions on where they belong or is it selected for them? Divergent the movie was about a girl and how she is so different then what the community was. Today’s world has a lot going on. Between divergent and today’s world are somewhat similar to each other or not. People’s identity to define themselves. For example, the character, Tris. She represent on how she is trying to blind in to the community, but in reality she…

People in the modern world are now more apathetic because the cultural mentality has changed, present-day entertainment has desensitized humans, and social media altered our behavior. With the abundance of every possible item surrounding people, they have lost focus of their surroundings and continue to race towards materialistic wealth. Scott Leuthold writes, “The plague of our materialistic society is a direct result of mankind seeking satisfaction and happiness through the addiction to…

All art forms are important to a culture because the music, the sculptures, the paintings, etc., all help form and differentiate each culture from another. Therefore, I disagree with the statement that visual artists are more important to a culture than performing artists because they create permanent work of art because both works of art can cause people to reflect on their lives, can bring enjoyment, and both can allow people to experience and interpret the art in their own way. It shouldn’t…

A counterculture is a sub-culture which corresponds an antithetical mode of thought, conduct and attitude in comparison to conventional societal norms and predominant cultural standards. A counterculture is intrinsically an alteration voicing the ideology and objective of a particular populace or cultural group. It’s a desire and pursuit to bring about a change in the cultural system when disappointed by the continuing, established cultural mentality. The critical mass plays an extensive role in…

There are many cultures in the world, from the western culture of America to the Inuit culture of Siberia. Cultural Relativism argues that every culture, no matter how different, is entitled to their own beliefs and other cultures do not have the right to take offense to another culture’s beliefs. This means that morals that may seem correct in one culture may be considered morally wrong by another culture. An argument against cultural relativism would be that if Cultural Relativism were…

What is it that causes people to change, to alter the course of their lives and start a new? How can it be that somebody can switch personalities and become a different, fresh, exciting individual? The answer is traveling. People who travel tend to have a clear, worldly insight of the areas around them. Travelling causes people to move forward with their lives and gives them something to reflect on, and look to the future for. Traveling helped Walter Mitty change. In the film “The Secret Life of…