Youth culture

The first attack was a car bomb outside the executive government quarter of Norway and the second attack occurred two hours later at a youth political summer camp, where the terrorist shot teenagers. In total 77 people died and 300 were hurt. It was the deadliest attack on Norway since World War II and the whole population of Norway was in shock. The entire country with only five million…

Australian indigenous knowledge and cultures In the last 60,000 years Australian indigenous knowledge has advanced through generations.Unlike western culture where knowledge becomes grown and known through written text's,Indigenous knowledge is developed by images, words, patterns, sounds, smells ,tastes on different canvases such as sand, soil, the body and rocks.Furthermore, Since British colonisation in 1788 threats to traditional indigenous knowledge existed then and even more now in modern…

For years, the media industry has had an extremely significant influence within society and has shaped modern culture. As the technology industry continues to grow, and we gain more information about the world through various media sources, it is crucial to continue to diversify the field. Diversity in the media industry is important, not only because representation matters, but also because it leads to greater productivity and opens future doors for people of color. As a child, my surroundings…

Throughout the centuries America has been the place where cultures merged. It is embedded in our history. People from around the world traveled in search of a better life and with them they brought their music, language, religion, art and traditions. Today, the American family is more diverse than ever. Rapid demographic changes are altering the way we shape our education. Developing culturally competent schools is a process that begins with understanding the community, its surroundings and how…

The word culture in colloquial terms can have various meanings, from a hierarchy of culture to an acquired trait. This can lead to an ethnocentric view of different demographics, where culture is selected as a standard to compare other cultures to. However, a more accurate definition of culture is “… [a learned set] of ideas and behaviors that are acquired by people as members of society” (Lavenda and Schulz, p.16). Using this definition, one can develop a cultural relativism attitude towards…

Divergence of indigenous cultures has been a prodigious topic of the 21st century. As of this exact moment we have over 7,000 distinct cultures but we are decreasing at a leisurely rate. You should take into consideration, that by dominating over other cultures, we are losing this divergence of indigenous cultures and it is withdrawing the benefits of cultures that contributes to the alleviating of the worlds complications. As a consequence of this decreasing, we as human beings need to call…

Icons and symbols of the local culture of Gorontalo, e.g., symbols in the wedding ceremony are not widely used as a motif in Karawo embroidery. There are some motifs that represent the culture of Gorontalo, yet the meaning embedded is usually about the traditional culture. Ultimately, such motifs do not draw the attention of teens since they consider themselves beyond the traditional trend. In addressing the problem, deconstructing the traditional symbols, i.e., rendering meaning according to…

of the traditional Chican@ definition. With such brevity, its easy for one to overlook the imperative value that this definition had to its identifiers. To be Chican@, was not just a geographical symbol, but rather an identity based on political culture that impacted the everyday choices of these individuals. As displayed within Rodolfo Corky Gonzales’s “I Am Joaquin”, the poem and the traditional Chican@ definition are almost parallel to one another, however Gonzalez’s piece depicts the Chican@…

Sixties. The street scenes, especially along Carnaby Street in Soho, with Mods and hippies parading their utterly distinctive gear, provided youth culture around the world with exemplars of cool that are still embraced today. Finally, the fashions that emerged from London, as well as the models who made those fashions both hip and famous, still echo through pop culture. Jean Shrimpton, Penelope Tree and, of course, the extraordinary woman known as Twiggy (born Lesley Hornby) were, for several…

The mainstream curriculum focuses on the upper hand of mainstream students, while diminishing the importance of the cultures of students of color. The ultimate goal in this chapter is to bring forth a multicultural curriculum. Chapter 9 goes into detail about the four different approaches to integration of ethnic content that are involved in the mainstream curriculum.…