The Two Cultures

My experience at the Heartbeat workshop and Spirits Rising concert was both educational and enjoyable. These events explored the culture of the Native Americans of the Great Lakes area. The workshop included participation in traditional dance, an example of both traditional and arranged music, a version of the Native American creation story, and a summary of the culture throughout history. The concert was an excellent opportunity to learn through observation, but I mostly took the chance to…

you to hundreds of different cultures. Even travelling from city to city you can experience a culture that is unfamiliar to you. There are so many diverse cultures around the world because cultures are created by the values and beliefs that get passed down from generation to generation (CREDO, par. 1). It is best to get acquainted with each new culture to help open your eyes to new and unique morals that you never thought of. Familiarizing yourself with new cultures also helps build…

nature of humanity and its many manifestations, but to what purpose does this endeavor serve? This accumulated wealth of knowledge, if let to gather dust, will surely fit a similar role of salvage anthropology. Saving the final glimpses of vanishing cultures in order to preserve and study these snapshots as a time capsule of humanity that once was. Observations are made, theories formulated, structures determined, but ultimately the result is merely academic enhancement. The express goal of…

Routledge). What do you understand by these terms? What are the advantages and disadvantages of such an approach? In translation practice, foreignization and domestication are two important translation strategies that translators need to consider when approaching the linguistic and cultural difference in source texts. However, these two concepts are mutually exclusive. Foreignization aims to maintain as much as possible the exotic cultural foreignness of the source language, retain the original…

Political Culture in India and Japan. Introduction. Both India and Japan have majestic and unique cultures of their own kind. Both countries have a vast culture whose roots are dated back to centuries. Both the countries are well known for their culture. They have gained utmost respect from other parts of the countries due to their awe-inspiring culture. One can see culture as a baroque phenomenon which features morals, laws, knowledge, art, beliefs and all those other credentials that a man may…

Life gives one many opportunities to embarrass oneself. In America where many cultures live in a few feet of each other, and with our global community due to internet social networks, it is not that surprising that once in a while misunderstandings and conflicts will arise. Sometimes two people trying to communicate with each other don’t speak the same language, or are still learning to speak and understand for instance Spanish, which can become frustrating for both parties. In my case, my…

description of gender equality as it exists in different cultures with (2) two examples. Also describe your own culture and relate this to the role of gender equality in one of the examples you have described. Gender roles and equality vary across cultures. Gender roles and equality are greatly influenced by historical and cultural contexts. The following examples are supposed to give a glimpse about gender equalities in different cultures. Gender equality in Sweden The European governments are…

Our topic is about culture and socialization. Culture and socialization are two terms that are mainly linked together. Socialization means a normal process through life which an individual learns values, believes, behavior, and skills related to his or her social position. Socialization makes humans different from animals. Culture is related to where a human as raised and his or her improvement of the mind by education or training. Each society is different than the other, and each different…

Cultural identity is a feeling of belonging to a particular culture which holds similar behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols. Culture can also be termed as what makes a person including language, gender, religion, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation among others. Although we are all born into different cultures, we are not born with them but learn about them at all levels of growth and development and as we grow old enough to understand. Those values are passed along by communication…

varieties of cultures and beliefs in the world that represent who and where everyone comes from. “The medicine Bag “ and “Rite of Passage” both have many things in common and many things the main characters do differently in their cultures. Watching the video is very differently from reading the story, they both give completely different perspectives of the topic. In the story “ The medicine Bag” and in the video “Rite of Passage” there is a variety of similarities between the two main…