American Culture And Ruth 's Irish Culture

A. It is important to observe an indviduals reactions when communicating to gauge how people are feeling in the situation. Some people may have barriers when it comes to communicating such as personal space issues. It is imperitive to make the client feel as comfortable as possible when communicating, if the person looks to be feeling uncomfortable with how you are communicating they may not be taking in the information you are giving them putting them at potential risk or if it is the client that is giving the information they may be holding something back again putting them at risk.

The pillow method in interpersonal communication is a situation that has four sides to it and to the approaches that can be given to that particular situation. Here, there is no single definite correct answer, but each of the four views that can be given, as will be discussed herein, is correct. The four approaches are normally I'm Right, You are Wrong, then You are Right, I'm Wrong, then Both Right, Both Wrong and finally It Isn't Important Which Position is Right or Wrong. This indicates the complexity behind interpersonal communication and how a simple conflict in communication or situation can take widely varied angles.

With each generation of Irish Americans, the assimilation of the American culture became greater. Irish Americans were very open to acculturation and structural assimilation. For Irish Americans, cultural assimilation was a very swift process. Mainly, they would focus on learning the Anglo-Protestant culture along with the values and basic views of the country. Immigrating Irish, like many other ethnic immigrants, have to adapt to the ways of the new country by adopting the language and cultural norms. Cultural assimilation for Irish Americans occurred when they adopted Anglo-protestant culture and, in exchange, gave up much of their own culture. Not only did Irish American citizens have to assimilate to the culture, they also had to go through

The United States has always been known as "The Land of Immigrants." People from all parts of the globe have traveled to America, to be free from oppression, disease, and hunger, or simply to start a new life. Many different people of different culture, race, and religion have made their mark and helped to shape the American culture. One of the most influential immigration movements in American History is the Irish Immigration.

“The 1920s represented a time of social change.”(#2 History.com/Rosenberg). This era took a bold step forward with fashion. “For women, short bobs became fashionable” because “dancer Irene Castle was one of the first to decide to bob in 1915.” “Many famous persons followed.”(#3 vintagedancer.com/Sessions) Shorter skirts also became popular because “shorter hemlines made it easier to drive cars and move quickly.”(#4 bellatory.com/Monet) These types of clothing would have never allowed in previous decades.(#5 www.thefinertimes.com/Nash)

Before the notorious potato famine, many Irish were moving across the Atlantic to America in hopes of a more prosperous, uncomplicated and trouble-free lifestyle. Irish emigrants looked at America to offer a higher standard of living through high wages and low commodity costs. With the myths of an easily attainable lifestyle existing in America, it is no wonder why later; there were so many potato famine-era immigrants that they established the basis for the significant Irish population and ethnicity in the United States. The emphasis in the last proposition, however, is on the word myth. Many of those fleeing Ireland may or may not have believed that America would offer a prosperous and uncomplicated lifestyle. But most did believe that

I believe that Ruth McBride was a non-conformist. Her dad was a strict Rabbi who tried to dictate many aspects of her life. Her dad owned a general store in Suffolk Virginia. Ruth's father, Tateh, was racist, and overcharged his black customers. Ruth resisted her father's prejudices and sympathized with the black people in her town. She was a non-conformist for resisting her dad’s prejudices and doing what she could to treat everyone equally and with kindness and respect.

For many people, the American dreams and promises brought ideas and new hopes of a better life. For the Irish, the American dreams and promises weren’t just ideas and hopes, they were the way to a new beginning in America, a way to start over and forget the horrifying past they encountered. The Irish struggled day after day to pay for fair travel to America. To many people, the challenge the Irish overcame seemed to deserve praise. Today, the Irish are honored and commemorated for their hard work and desire for a better life.

Reginald Byron, in Irish America, has pro vided a thorough historical and ethnographic picture of Irish American ethnicity in Albany, New York. In addition to deepening our knowledge of the immigration of Irish people to the United States in the nineteenth centu ry, Byron also forcefully argues against total izing narratives of ethnicity. By focusing on an Irish population that constituted a significant portion of the population of Albany, we can see that ethnicity is a complex phenomenon. Byron begins his discussion of the Irish in

Ever since Thomas Edison invented the Kinetiscope in 1894, films have been reaching its way to the heart of American culture. Since the roaring twenties, where the United States began to see the first movie theaters to the 1960’s, where films are officially a source of leisure and escape from reality. Films influenced American culture between the 1920’s through 1960’s by becoming an increasingly popular form of leisure for years to come while causing scandals, riots, and movements about films or about the idea of films in general by displaying issues in society such as racism, forming a need for censorship laws. Films have also provided a fantasy world for their audiences by showing a film about someone in their perfect life using ethical

“What terrifies me most is how we foam at the mouth with envy when others succeed but sigh in relief when they are failing our struggle to celebrate each other is what's proven most difficult in being human” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

As they began to immigrate to the United States, the Irish population suffered from various racism. They were categorizes as dangerous, aggressive, temperamental, along other derogatory words. However, with the introduction of new ethnicities, as well as the conformity Irish Americans dealt with, the stereotypes and discriminations regarding this immigrant group often diminished. As many other ethnicities have done, the Irish Americans found themselves conforming to American cultures and beliefs. This process of conformity has been adapted by many immigrating ethnicities, giving up most of their culture and identity to fit the image of what an ideal American is. In the case of Irish immigrants, many of them encountered hostility because of

Even though both Samberg and Behymer are both German in origin, our family is quite Irish. We do have more German in us, but that does not make us any less proud to Irish. John and Sara Giblin are among our Irish ancestors. They traveled to America during a time of unrest in America and after a horrible tragedy in Ireland. It was not always easy for John and Sara, but they went through everything for their children. The Giblins went through many struggles in their life to give their children a better chance at life and we should value what they did.

I am going to deal with the notion “Myths and Heroes”, and especially with the link between heroes and myths, through archetypal figures. To begin with, and since there are many interpretations of the word, I need to give a definition of the notion in the context of my study. An archetypal figure is inspired by a real person, regarded as a hero, who not only distinguished himself, but also embodied fundamental characteristics and became a paragon to the collective imagination. On contrary to a simple myth, the archetype of a stereotypical hero is more than a popular belief, since he inspires people, either because he’s considered as an ideal to reach, or because he’s admired.

Stella Tingy-Toomey’s face negotiation theory goes in depth on how “people of different cultures respond to conflict” (Griffin, 2009). How does one protect his/her public self-image or refrain from embarrassing the other