Urban culture

In my exploration of the Japanese culture, I was intrigued by the shift in connotations or views of Japanese yokai from the ones depicted in traditional folklore to that of modern media. In this essay I will endeavor to convey how the media has transformed the yokai image to one of popularization in order to better relate to the masses. Yokai, are strange and supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore and is sometimes translated as monster, demon, spirit, or goblin, but it can encompass all…

as progress for the whole world to gain knowledge with one another and to develop together. So, its process is making the cultures of the world more homogeneous. (Globalization, Environment, and Religion). Nowadays, People have the freedom to choose their culture and People find this empowering to shape their cultures but people are choosing and forming a homogeneous culture. The Asian soul is characterized by values such as love of silence and contemplation, proximity to nature, detachment,…

by which we can judge and acknowledge architecture by the presence of these both. Ranging from all types of material culture, architecture is the most expressive and experiencing medium. As a medium, architecture has a language also through which we can identify the culture and society of a particular era. Architecture also discloses the desires, power struggles and material culture of a society along with the aesthetic and formal presence of an architect. As anthropologist Victor Buchli…

they have garnered the support of a wide array of patrons, there is a struggle to attract communities of color. In this paper, an analysis of three central concepts will be assessed for the symbolic and political frames. Structural Frame The culture problem is staff members feel uncomfortable speaking with the adolescents in the summer internship program regarding their unprofessional dress and demeanor. The problem is a problem because the staff and summer interns do not have shared values…

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors in which minority characters are portrayed in the media. By discussing the key themes that pertains to the Netflix show Orange is The New Black, this paper will analyze the topic of identity and allowing for its application on a larger context that houses within the Structuralism perspective. Identity is an umbrella term to classify the broad categories of race, gender, religion, sexuality, and family/subcultural groups – all of these things…

to be part of one culture you are not part of another. Not only are you not part of the other but they are mutually exclusive meaning that if you are part of one culture, in this instance the black culture, then you cannot be part of the other, mainstream culture. This notion of biculturalism is generally assumed by most individuals but in All Our Kin, Stack proceeds to present a different implication as to where Blacks are both committed to black culture and mainstream culture and most…

India, a collaboration of 29 states and 7 union territories and is known for its great unity in diversity. But that unity bears certain loop holes in maintaining the same in reality. Each state in India has a uniqueness of its own whether it is in culture, geographic pattern, community settlements, economic or natural resources. There is indeed a wide disparity in development which makes rich more rich & poor becomes poorer. As such, people living in rural part (poor regions) of India often…

Teaching Culturally responsive teaching focuses on the learning needs of students from various cultures and requires that teachers integrate multicultural perspectives into the curriculum (Banks, 1994; Gay, 2002). As the demographic differences in K-12 student population continue to increase, teachers will need to become more aware of the cultural backgrounds of their pupils. Although integrating the culture of each cultural group in America would be difficult, teachers can integrate cultural…

African-American values focus on loyalty, security, developing a positive racial identity, and not giving up in the face of adversity (Rowley et al., 2012). They also stress obedience and respect for elders. Child discipline is usually strict especially in urban areas. Hispanic parents also tend to have strict standards. Hispanic families place a high value on familismo: the centrality of the family values, family pride, and loyalty (Glass & Owen, 2010). Hispanics tend to be very affectionate…

Barrett and Bliss-Moreau (2009) report that core affective experiences are found across cultures, and arousal and valence circumplex structures have been reliably derived in many different cultures. Thus, the construct of emotional granularity is relevant (i.e., valid) across the globe. The next step is to determine which cultural approach to measurement will be used: using the same set of words translated across cultures (i.e., etic approach), developing culturally-specific word lists (i.e.,…