Transformation of culture

Writing out (or in) Material Culture from the Past: Crossdressing and the Myth of the Frontier In America’s “frontier” history, crossdressing is rarely the focus of analysis. As a place that was yet to be conquered and “modernized,” it was affiliated with heterosexual, white manliness. In Peter Boag’s Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past, however, he specifically focuses on the acts of crossdressing in the form of female-to-male, male-to-female, and even more abstractly, non-Anglo-to-Anglo. In…

The Coast Salish Basket makers and Canoe Cavers Art played a major part in Northwest Coast Culture. The Coast Salish tribe is well known for its unique art culture. Salish coast art has a diverse range of creations in performing, expressing imaginative and technical skills. Salish art is appreciated for their beauty and spirituality. Their artwork defines their pride and each work of art tells its own story. The art is both functional and, at the same time is paired with cultural art of Salish…

Cultural Perspective Because ‘Integrated Approach’ deals with both the source culture and the target culture, it could be seen as a feasible translation theory of Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk. The cultural factors play an important role in modern Chinese literature. With the influence of western cultures, China experienced a transformation of literature in terms of linguistic forms and contents. Scholars such as Lu Xun proposed that vernaculars should be used. In addition, the focus of modern…

Melanie Yazzie was born in Ganado, Arizona and she grew up on the Navajo Nation. She first studied art at the Westtown School in Pennsylvania. Then she earned a BA at Arizona State University in 1990 and an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1993. Melanie Yazzie works a wide range of media that include printmaking, painting, sculpting, and ceramics, along installation art. She is a professor of printmaking in the Department of Art and Art History at University of Colorado, Boulder…

and the people around us about other cultures. These stereotypes have created narrow barriers that separate ‘us’ from ‘them.’ Yet, after speaking with other students who have studied abroad, it is evident that these barriers are not indestructible in fact they can be broken. In fact study abroad or any international journey is a wonderful way to challenge many of those stereotypes. However, before breaking stereotypes, an individual or a group must manage culture shock. Although people can adapt…

Running Head: CULTURE AND THE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA 2 Culture and the History of Australia Mahatma Gandhi said it best when he said “a nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the souls of its people. ” (BrainyQuote, N.D.) A more modern take on culture comes from The Center for Advance Research on Language Acquisition, they define culture as “a shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs and understanding that are learned by…

journey between two cultures, choreographer Stephen Page alongside the Bangarra Dance Theatre Company has recreated the story of Mathinna and effectively demonstrated how British settlers removed Aboriginal people from their home land and intervened in their cultural practices (Task Sheet 2015). This modern adaptation by Bangarra focuses on the themes of cultural environmental and social disruptions as British Settlers enforced western systems and values onto the Indigenous culture. In the…

comes out at the end of it all, complete loss of culture shapes identity and something unidentifiable takes its place. For Lefty to keep his job at the factory he had to participate in a pageant, the "Ford English School Melting Pot", in which they must take off their 'immigrant costumes" and dress in "blue and gray suits... waving American flags" (104-105). At that point in time and even to this day there is a glorification of one's destruction of culture and ethnic identity, clear in the…

Today’s schools demand teachers to educate students in different aspects of culture, language, skills, and many other characteristics Cultural diversity in the classroom is extremely important to have, because it opens the minds of students and others to a different level or experience. According to the article Linguistic and cultural…

ourselves or other figures in our societies. Why do we perceive people and events around us differently? The answer is simply because we live in a culturally diverse world where people can be culturally diverse. Culture and how one perceives the world is strongly intertwined because: culture teaches you the values that you use to judge people, includes experiences of our past that reflect in our future actions, and determines what we experience due to our locations. From a young age we were…