America Is A Multinational Society

Culture, ideas, and customs have sculpted this nation into the country that thrives today both socially and economically. Considering the history behind our melting pot of a country, how much of our “American” culture is American? Ishmael Reed delves into this topic and uncovers shocking truths that open the minds of the American nationalist that want to preserve the nations customs and not let other cultures consume our own “original” ideas. The article, America: The Multinational Society by Ishmael Reed uncovers the real uniqueness of “American” culture both past and present as well as good and bad. He uses well-known historical examples like the Puritans, personal experiences, the three modes of persuasion and modern ironic precedents that

In America and other countries of similar and contrasting cultures, we like to be right, we like to be on top, and we want to be recognized for both respectively. Competition is an underlying theme in so much of what we do in our daily lives. Whether it’s getting a better grade on a test than your friend, winning a football game or even speeding up faster than the car next to you when the light turns green. Competition, whether we like it or not, surrounds us and we participate in it willingly. We all want to stand on that podium and receive the gold medal, for then we are better than someone else and we can look down upon him or her because we have achieved something they have not. This competition and trying to be better than the person

America is a melting pot filled with many different cultures; moreover, the changing color of America has made it one of the most diverse place to live. Though rich in culture, minority groups suffer from health disparities due to their socioeconomic status, education, language, and political beliefs. As most minority group will find they have similar barriers that they face during the assimilation to the main stream culture. The minority group that will be focused for this discussion will be Vietnamese Americans.

Miami is well known as a city where a lot of immigrants migrate to and continuously grow in numbers. The increase in the Hispanic population is usually due to family ties that influence other members to relocate to the city. Persuasion of a better life and opportunity for their children is what influenced my parents to move to Miami in the mid 1980’s. According to my parents the diversity in languages and cultural background made it

Globalization impacts every area of American life: from the products we buy to the way we do things. One of the ways globalization affects individual communities is by making those communities more diverse. Globalization makes the migration of people, as well as products and stores, more possible. There are some negative aspects of globalization. For example, globalization makes it more likely that we will see less variety of stores. The proliferation of the same stores in every neighborhood, even throughout the world, makes for a more homogenized society. I see a Starbucks everywhere, as well as McDonalds. One impact of globalization that has both pros and cons is that English has become the predominant language. English enables people from different countries to communicate, but it also means that people in the English speaking countries have an advantage.

What does it mean to be American? What it means to be American is how you contribute to this country. Fighting for equal rights,fighting for America, fighting to be American everyday.To be American you have independence, determination to fight for what you have.To be American is to be proud of my country and defending our rights and our freedom rights.Being American is something we should be proud of we have a lot of freedom. For example we choose what school,church,study,travel,etc we want.Being American means were all treated equally no matter what race,or culture you're from. Being American gives us the right to be ourselves.

Our nation is no longer the nation of “the American dream”; instead it has become a “melting pot” for all types of wrongs against its own communities. Do you consider yourself a millennial, the generation that will change all that is wrong in our nation? People born in the late 80’s up until the beginning of the new millennium might be the answer to ratifying every single wrong turn our nation has taken. Every day it is the younger generations that are taking a step forward, trying to restore what once was called, “the greatest country in the world”; certainly, it is only with the decline of our nation that this has been made possible. With an ever growing negative information by the media and the state in which we are inheriting our nation

In his essay, “America: The Multinational Society,” Ishmael Reed gives his readers no context for his expertise in the subject of multiculturalism, though he is black and has seen first-hand his family’s culture mixed with other cultures present in the United States. His best examples of cultural blending happening, and indeed being a positive thing, is when he compares the attitude of xenophobes to those of the actual colonial-era Puritans, who were a stunningly brutal people. Reed’s examples of the failings of other societies that attempted to remain homogenous, most notably Germany’s Nazi regime, (“for wasn’t Adolph Hitler the archetypal monoculturalist who, in his pigheaded arrogance, believed the one way and one blood was so pure that it had to be protected from alien strains at all costs?”) (Reed, 356) provides a good basis for his pro-cultural blending stance, but ultimately Reed does not go into the effects of blending cultures in the wrong ways enough to be effective in his message.

In America, when someone points out all of the flaws of the great nation it is common for an American who no longer wants to argue to say “Well we went to the moon, what exactly did your country do?” with an extreme sense of condensation. And, while it is true that America valiantly went to the moon, most countries now have a considerable presence in the space community and while America is still a leader, it’s mostly just because they were a lot richer than the rest of the world, for example let’s say the USSR or the other extremely morbidly crazy semi world power of the time, China. It’s really funny that while those countries can say things like “We didn’t elect Putin” or “We have the great wall of China”, both very brave or interesting

In Allen Ginsberg’s poem, Howl, we are exposed American culture and society in the 1940s-50s through the narrator’s eyes. According to the narrator, the society looks down upon those who don’t conform to its rules and culture. This materialistic and militaristic culture had destroyed and drove them with “madness” and starved with “hysterical naked” looking for “an angry fix”. Just like the title suggest, this poem is a loud cry for the generation oppressed by the conformed American society that didn’t value artistic creativity. He openly describes and discusses his experiences in drug uses and involvement in various of unusual incidents and how they could be associated with the search of spiritual/ religious madness. Right away, we get a religious sense from this poem through the words like “angel headed hipsters”, “heavenly connection” and “Mohammedan angels”. Ginsberg uses different religious/spiritual imagery and implication to portray the oppression his generation face. He calls for change in the current political and social system of his time.

There are new developments, businesses, and people constantly pouring in from everywhere. Miami is a place that celebrates its diversity, which gives it an advantage. There are various parades and culture days to celebrate, and there are even communities of different ethnicities that live peacefully among each other, an example of this would be ‘Little Havana’. There is also a great influx of immigrants from around the world coming to the city, and it has become so natural for diversity that is no longer a major challenge. In fact, it is completely normal for a Caucasian, or other ethnicity, to enter a Hispanic part of town and sit down in a restaurant to have dinner. Miami was not always a multi-cultural hub, but when its demographics began changing, the city simply adapted and grew. This adaption system has actually worked quite well, and created an equal, functioning society that is prosperous in almost everything it does. Many other cities could follow Miami’s example, and create embracive

 Marco Rubio is the candidate running for president.  Rubio has many ideas for America, but the one that stands out the most is protecting the economy in a globalized world; and in order for that happen it has to deal with foreign policy because it play a central role. The main

There was a time in America when people from all classes saw rising incomes from a growing economy. During the era known as The Great Prosperity, lasting from 1947-1977, the American economy grew extraordinarily due to an innovation in assembly line mass production that was first used by businessman Henry Ford. Henry Ford believed that his workers at the Ford Motor Company should be paid an income that enabled them to purchase the products that they made. Through this concept of Fordism, workers in the manufacturing sector of the economy were paid decent wages, and as the economy grew, middle class wages rose as well, and income inequality fell significantly. These higher wages induced increased consumption of goods and services, thus stimulating

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William Wordsworth is a notable poet of the 1800s for his frequency to write of things of remembrance. In his Petrarchan sonnet, "The World is Too Much With Us", he nostalgically writes about a time when the communion of humanity and nature was far more prominent to people. He angrily states that human beings are too preoccupied with materialistic matters and have lost their touch for the spirituality of nature. He brilliantly uses sensory modes to convey his feelings through symbolism, metaphors, and similes as to communicate through his eloquence the idea of returning to a communion of nature and humanity.