A Cultural Discovery : A New Culture Discovery

While his coworkers constructed his designs, what hobby did Bernini pursue? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Writing plays and designing stage sets Writing plays and designing stage sets

Attribute theory is a theory of culture that arose in the late nineteenth century that describes culture “as a set of stable and knowable attributes” (Yon, 2000a, 8). This view of culture suggests that culture is a “complex whole” of these particular attributes: “beliefs, morals, customs, capabilities, and habits that people acquire as members of society (Yon, 2000a, 8). Overall, attribute theory depicts culture as “coherent and predictable” and this means that there are noticeable “patterns of culture” (Yon, 2000a, 8). In contrast, Yon suggests that culture does not fit this ideal view of predictability and culture “is not only a product or a set of attributes that can be claimed and neatly recorded” (Yon, 2000a, 5). Instead, Yon coined

Over the years the concept of culture has shaped people and what they believe in. According to the textbook culture is defined as a set of beliefs, traditions, and practices. The conception of culture can be described as material or nonmaterial. Material culture is described as everything that is a part of our constructed, physical environment. On the other hand, nonmaterial culture refers to values, beliefs, behaviors, and social normal. I believe culture can be defined and shaped in many ways. I feel that culture differs from one location to another because the natural environment has an impact on the culture. Also, some people come up with their own ideas and values. There are changes within cultures across time because people grow and develop

1. How can an understanding of the complexities of culture help us make sense of the day-to-day world which we live? Give an example from your life to illustrate your answer.

We all see the events and objects surrounding us in a cultural lens in which tints, alters, and shapes our perceptions. In a broader aspect, culture shapes how people experience their world. Though a culture is generally understood and thought of as the foods, clothing, holidays, and music a group of people engage in, culture dives deeper than just a group’s visible traditions.

Arriving at a foreign country at the age of eleven years old was and exiting and yet intimidating experience. High buildings, wide roads, newer and nicer cars on the streets were some of the first things I noticed when I arrived to the city of Los Angeles CA. Living in a country where you were not born in could be difficult some times. Although Spanish is spoken at a grand scale in CA, it was difficult to communicate with and understand the teachers from my classes at the elementary level since all they spoke was English. Los Angeles is a city of great diversity, therefore it is believed to be the perfect place for any person arriving from another country to not feel like a foreign, such believe

According to cultural anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor, culture is a “complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.” In other words, culture is a concept that social organizations practice in order to explain certain phenomena in nature whether through mythology, rituals, art, music, and language. However, as explained by Ethan Watters in “The Mega Marketing of Depression in Japan,” culture is not permanent, since it has the ability, and more than ever in the present society, to “move across boundaries of race, culture, class, and nation” (Watters 519). In addition, as demonstrated by Oliver Sacks in the articled called “The Mind’s Eye: What the Blind See,” it is a mistake to think that individuals are bound to behave in a way that culture told them to behave. Instead, individuals are free to create his or her own unique experience of interpreting the world. We might consider the “reality” that we live in to be fiction to the extent that we are willing to use different faculties and analyze what we are witnessing; this gives us the power, as individuals, to think and search for each of us’s unique interpretation of reality. .

The Olmec are believed to be the first great Mesoamerican civilization. The city known as San Lorenzo existed around 1200BC and declined in 400 B.C. It is considered to be the first major city in ancient Mexico.

Unknown culture #618 is an organism confined from the urine of Doris, a 64-year-old patient with a kidney infection. The reserve and working stock were developed from the broth culture. The working stock was made by inoculating a nutrient agar plate using the quadrant streaking method. The reserve stock was developed by the inoculation of a nutrient agar plate split into four quadrants. The incubation temperature for each test was 37 degrees Celsius and lasted for 2-5 days.

There are very few native plants on the island. The only plants that are on the island are breadfruit trees, pandanus trees, pawpaw trees, coconut trees, babai(a type of taro root), mosses and mangrove trees. There are also yams lemons, and sugarcane as non tree plants. These seeds for plants probably got transported to the island by birds except for the coconuts because there aren't any land borders to any other island. Because there are no land boarders it gives us some evidence that the island got made by a volcano.

My family culture has been a big part of my life even through the changes my life has taken. Every year, my family celebrates Thanksgiving and Christmas. The locations and the faces may change, but the ritual of spending the holidays together remain a highlight of the year. Since living in Indiana, I have spent Thanksgiving with my father’s family in Spencer and have traveled back home to Delaware to be with my immediate family during Christmas. This has been a routine of mine for the past several years and it has allowed me to grow closer with family members I used to never see.

My husband became very busy with his studies. He spent most of his time in the library while I was taking care of our apartment and our children. After two months, I became pregnant with my daughter. I was very bored sitting at home and I had the same feeling when I went outside because I could not speak even a single English word beyond numbers. Therefore, I was not able to stay alone at home for the whole day, particularly when my kids went to school; nor was I able to go out, mostly because of my limited English. While I was in this dilemma, I got to know an African American girl who drove my kids to school daily. She was the first American girl that I met. She was like a third gift to me. Fortunately,

Although referred to as the “competing values framework” the mainstay of this theory is to recognize the many dynamics aspects it takes in managerial personnel to effectively operate a financially sound organization. Although sufficient in describing the four differencing administration styles, controller, competitor, creator and the clan leader, this framework limits itself by conflicting each value as independently working against one another instead of encompassing a wraparound approach as used in Public Health, seen in (appendix A) where more fluid dynamics interplay in both the internal and external aspects of the agency providing for more client-centered, population-focused, community-based services through well-matched system approaches. Of note, not one of the four identified approaches has been proven to be more effective than another, however in totality, much like an interdisciplinary team approach to services, when incorporated equally, each skill set complements the overall goal of the agency.

Interviewing Michal gave me a small introduction to new cultural knowledge and understandings. The interview introduced me to a very small portion of the students I may have in my classroom and see in the school. One important piece of information that I learned through interviewing Michal is, he occasionally brought up stereotypes and racism that he constantly heard and received from his elementary school till now. In James & Cherry A. Banks text Multicultural Education Issues and Perspectives, Banks discusses that school reformation should be antiracist and antibias and having an antiracist and antibias perspective is at the core of multicultural education, “many people find that multicultural education automatically takes care of racism, but that is far from reality” (James & Cherry A. Banks, p.316). Michal discussed many stereotypical statements not only said from students, but teachers as well. For example, a common stereotypical question that kids did and still do tease him about, are the typical African-American meals that they eat. When he was little many students, especially Caucasian students, would tease him about eating “KFC, watermelon, and Kool-Aid”. Although they found this as a joke, he mentioned that at a young age it made him feel uncomfortable. Many students, especially here in College joke around about these types of stereotypical thoughts, but these are the little things that may marginalize a student in the classroom.

When one begins the discussion of cultural history that is, who we are as individuals, what experiences, beliefs, and factors that shape us into the individuals that we are today. It is important to have an understanding of what culture represents in our society. Exploring cultural history encompasses the combination of anthropology and history alike to further explore popular cultural interpretations and traditions as seen through historical experiences. Meaning, an examination of records, past knowledge, arts, and customs of a given group should be closely assessed in order to begin to understand the individual. In the world today, we see many variations of cultures. Many stand to the tests of time all there own, while others have begun to blend together with that of other cultures. I am a product of just that, being born into a family whose roots tie back to African, Indian, German, and Irish descents made for an interesting upbringing. In this paper, we will discuss how cultural history and family experiences have shaped what is now my own cultural beliefs and learning habits.