A Description of Cultural Patterns

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the culture and beliefs of four Hispanic groups. The groups I have chosen to cover are: Puerto Rican, Mexican, Dominican and Cuban. Included in the paper will be each group’s linguistic, social, economical, political, familial and religious ties or beliefs.

If a person understands various cultures, and understands social variations then that is their social phenomenon. Other factors include a biological standpoint or the generalization that ethnicity and race is simple because it is learned (1). The diversity involved in these ideas are complex and are to be examined in this paper as a current topic in today’s American panoply: How immigration, the cultural and psychological aspects of Latinos assimilating creates diversity within the family.

Puerto Rican is the populations and residents of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is a multi-ethnic state where home is different ethnic to people and nationwide backgrounds, but the result of some Puerto Ricans does not luxury their population as an ethnicity, but as a nationality with numerous civilizations and nationwide backgrounds including the Puerto Rican people. Puerto Rican is and notwithstanding its multi-ethnic structure of the culture apprehended in a joined by the greatest Puerto Ricans was signified to as conventional Puerto Rican culture. A Western culture is the large consequential from the civilizations of Western European immigrants from the beginning of the early Spanish immigrants as along with other Europeans received afterward such as the Corsicans Irish, Germans and French, lengthways with a heavy-duty West African culture which has been powerful. According to a (Rivera, M (n.d.). People. Retrieved September 27, 2015) “Puerto Ricans are known for their warm hospitality, often considered very friendly and expressive to strangers. Greetings are often cordial and genuine. When people are first introduced, a handshake is usual, however, close friends and family members always greet you hello or goodbye with a kiss on the cheek or a combination hug and kiss. This happens between female friends and between men and women, but not between male friends. Puerto Ricans are best known by

Puerto Rico is a Spanish speaking region made up of one big island and a few smaller islands in the Caribbean Sea. It belongs to the U.S as an “unincorporated” territory. It was a place where the country’s constitution does not apply by default. Puerto Ricans are considered Americans. If you are automatically born in Puerto Rico, you are automatically a U.S citizen. They use U.S passports to travel internationally. Some people are inclined to view the Puerto Rican experience as a historical repetition of earlier migrations to the United States. However, the migration experience of Puerto Ricans to the United States is more complex, as well as one of a kind. Similarities do exist between the migration of Puerto Ricans and that of other groups, however, no other ethnic group has shared the tribulations of the Puerto Rican population. Their experience is different from that of anyone else.

Inclusion of other cultures is a result of marrying into another culture, children become independent from the family, language barriers between the parents and children, distant from family left behind in old country, etc. Virtually every ethnic group has planted its footprint into the history and daily life of the United States (Times – News, 2008). Due to the geographical proximity of Latin countries, Hispanics have played a vital historical role in the development of this country (Times – News, 2008). The way to ensure that the family retains and remember their culture is to maintain their cultural heritage through the knowledge of one’s cultural history and how the people in that culture dealt with struggles and how they handled difficulties in life to know how their source of strength is sustained. History informs us that societies are the result of collective contributions from the various social and ethnic groups (Times – News, 2008). The United States contains the most diverse combination of cultures in the Americas, due to the contributions made by all the native and foreign cultures embraced within this nation (Times – News,

As the United State is becoming more of a diverse country, cultural adaptation is becoming the norm, as well as, bicultural identity. “Culture change has traditionally referred to the modifications, revisions, and new manners of expression that result from the process of interaction between cultures.” Robbins,Chatterjee and Canda, (2012) (pg.135). When any culture, individual has embedded within a community that assimilates the heritage receiving the culture biculturalism likely to emerge.

Puerto Rico is a small island in the Caribbean. It was first settled around 1000 A.D. by the Taino Indians and called Borinquen. In 1493, Christopher Columbus claimed it for Spain but it wasn’t until the arrival of Juan Ponce de Leon in 1508 that Spain began to colonize and rule over the land and its native people. The Taino Indians believed the Spanish colonizers had divine powers and to test their theory they captured a Spaniard and drowned him. It is said that they watched him for several days until they were sure he was dead. When they learned that the Spanish were mortal, they revolted against them but with no success. As punishment, Ponce De Leon ordered 6,000 shot; survivors fled the mountains or left the island. After being settled by Spain and being enslaved, the native population was nearly wiped out by disease and war. The Spanish then began brining African slaves to the island to replace the Indian

In First place, There is many stories and moments in my life that make my culture identity. In my life’s of being hispanic we have a party which is called “posada de navidad” which means christmas celebrations. They are celebrations that are intended

For the purposes of this piece, culture is defined as “the full range of human patterned experience” as described by Cole (1996) cited in Gla ̆veanu & Jovchelovitch (2017, p.113). This chapter also provides a description of the importance culture plays in psychological research.

It is not easy to define culture because culture is too broad a concept, can be both abstract and specific. However, what is agreed is culture covers all faces of our life as well as direct the way we behave, interact and communicate. (Liu et al., 2011). One popular definition is that “Culture is the total way of life of a group of people, comprising of the deposit of knowledge, experience, belief, values, traditions, religion, and notion of time, roles, spatial relations, worldviews, material objects and geographic territory”. (Liu et al., 2011, p.57). In this essay, I will analyse components and characteristics of culture, and based on that grounds, I will reflect on my own culture-being a Vietnamese. Dodd (1998) considered that culture is made up by three layers which consist of the core layer, the intermediate layer and the outer layer. I will examine what values and beliefs are considered important in my culture. Those are components of the inner core. Then, I will take some examples of the intermediate layer (expression of cultural activities by manifestation) such as communication patterns, customs and festivals.

Every country in the world have different culture value, even between individuals in a country, they probably have different view of their culture value too. The writer realizes that we cannot judge a culture just by our point of view. In this assignment the writer will interview Chinese culture. With this interview, the writer aim to know how is the culture in China, and also how they see something in their general cultural point of view. The writer also wants to compare the general view of culture by their own people with sources that has been published in media. In this assignment the writer will discuss about Dimension of Culture by Geert Hofstede. Geert Hofstede is a researcher that comes from Dutch. He identified five dimensions of culture, that he labeled individualism, masculinity, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and long-short term. Individualism-collectivism describes the social structure in that culture. Masculinity-Femininity describes two things, the assertive or nurturing, and gender differentiation. Power distance describes the different power and influence between people. Uncertainty avoidance describes the action when people taking a risk. Long-short term explains about the time orientation of a culture, whether they think about present or future. This interview is a great way to know how the culture in a country is, because we ask directly to the people that come from particular country, not from resources that we don’t know it is right

This essay will discuss the influence of cultural dimensions on behavior. A cultural dimension is defined as a perspective of a culture based on its values and cultural norms. In particular, Hofstede’s cultural dimension of individualism vs. collectivism will be discussed. Individualism vs collectivism is defined as the preference of a person only being concerned about oneself and looking after oneself, compared to a person who wants to remain in a closely knitted network. These are some terms with definitions which will be used in this essay: the Asch paradigm, which refers to the studies conducted by Solomon Asch, in which he showed his participants different lines and asked them to verbally judge and respond as to what the length of the

“One hundred percent of Mexicans do not hit piñatas one hundred percent of the time”. This quote by Fred Erickson highlights a key difference between traditional ways of considering culture versus Kris Gutiérrez ideals of culture. In the traditional sense of the world, culture is static and is used to categorize groups of people. Gutiérrez tries to dismantle this way of thinking about culture and instead suggest that the world culture should be thought of as a verb. She explains that culture helps facilitates or constrains human activity and therefore it plays an active role in our lives. Additionally, practices, histories, and beliefs and values create individuals fluctuating culture. In this essay, I will use Gutiérrez perspective of culture and address the effects of the reductionist view of culture, as well as the role education has in shaping culture and promoting social justice.

There are many differences in human’s mind about their lives, and people choose their own ways to continue their lives whatever they want. We can see the difference in culture and religion so easily in everywhere. It is true that people do not use their own parents and cultures when they were born, but they can change them to the better one when they grow up. Also, there are many different places that build for good and bad people, and people have been using those places as their behaviors. If people have such a good behavior, they visit those places that build for them, and they do not want known like a bad person because everyone know that those people who have bad behavior, do not be loved by people around them. There are two great stories that talk about those people that have bad behaviors, and they show us that we can easily find those people around us. The Killers, and Rothschild’s Fiddle is two main stories that help us to know there are many kind of human being around the world, we can see them everywhere around the world. The first one is The Killers, and it is the story that was written in the late of 1920, during the prohibition in the United State. It is the short story that was written by Ernest

Every culture has different beliefs on certain issues such as death, gender, and spiritual practices. Cultural beliefs influence the way patients understand health concepts and how they take care of themselves. Therefore, knowing a patients’ background and culture is a helpful key to solving certain problems. The Hispanic culture is an old and very unique culture that has strong beliefs concerning death, dying, gender, family, and spiritual practices.