The Two Cultures

Interviews reproduce There were two participants invited to join this project. The first participants Ambor is a 31 years old female from Taiwan. Now she is a store manager of Daiso in Brisbane (large-scale retail stores sell thousands of product under 3 dollars). According to her words, she described herself as a traditional Taiwanese with a good Australia culture integration. Taiwanese culture constitutes by local Taiwanese culture, Hakka culture and new culture brought by mainlanders. On the…

role. We develop the sense of cultural sense of humor too. Some big and diverse countries like United States or Europe countries have a subject dispute about cultural ethos. Some of these issues include national identity or beliefs and values of a culture. A national identity is when the majority of people associate with the nation where they born. First, let us define what identity is and what cultural is. Based on Webster dictionary, identity is sameness of essential or generic character in…

cultural backgrounds bring their own cultures and traditions to live and work together and in the normal situation, one kind of culture will hold a dominant position. It is good for the people who have the dominant cultural background. However, that makes people from other cultural backgrounds confuse, especially for second or third generations. For these people, cultural assimilation and retroculturation are two necessary processes. They will influence non-dominant culture of people and their…

Question #1 Part A: Anthropologists ask: How do different cultures define art, and what purposes does art serve? Use any type of art which you would like to explain the anthropological perspective on art. Be sure to refer to some key concepts discussed in the class lectures related to art. Part B: The anthropology of art does not treat such artifacts as “exotic objects,” but instead examines them for the roles they play in people’s lives. According to the class lecture, how were exotic…

Reid S.Weber Ancient Cultures Comparison Every idea has a beginning and every beginning can expand into something greater. Thoughts and ideas were started by ancient civilizations. These ancient civilizations are the base of all modern knowledge. The earliest of civilizations consisted of core advancements that defined the communities that inhabited within it. These communities were driven by factors that would decide the overall outcome of the civilization. Ancient cultures had to overcome a…

as highlights group and cultural (i.e. political context) and social/psychological (social factors, language proficiency) variables that influence the acculturation experience (Berry, 2005). Within Berry’s model, the two dimensions of heritage-culture retention and receiving-culture acquisition interact to create four acculturation categories. These categories include assimilation, separation, integration, and marginalization. Berry defined an assimilated sojourner as…

Drew Hayden Taylor, Sun-kyung Yi and Anne Jew show people how ancertery can influence the everyday lives and future of people. In these three short stories the perspective of three different cultures, Chinese, Korean and First Nations is taken and the reader is shown how during an adaptation to another culture ones roots are what ground a person. The authors talk of hardships and good times thought their lives and how their roots have not only helped them by giving them a safe place to go back…

slide on your nightgown every evening.” (Hyppolite 102-103) There are many ways for someone to be from two cultures. Your environment and the people you surround yourself with can influence and shape you, and you may learn new things and adopt a different culture over time. After seeing the movie Somewhere Between and reading over the essay “Dyaspora”, we discussed the issues of heritage and culture in class, and it further broadened my knowledge on the idea of being multicultural. In a society…

was born in New Jersey and raised by my Moroccan born parents here for the majority of my life. And yes. I have been to Morocco dozens of time, I actually even spent my 6th grade there (best year as of yet). However, the culture in Morocco is completely different than the culture of the United States in almost every way; from the religion, the family, the education, the economy, and even the polity. So…

and mainstream theory of national cultures is known as the onion metaphor introduced by Hofstede in 1991. According to it, cultures are defined by strict political national boundaries, emphasizing nationality and the importance of nation-states. The onion model describes different layers of a culture, meaning that in the surface of the onion there are the practices of culture, that is, symbols, heroes, and rituals. The core of the onion depicts the core of a culture including basic assumptions,…