Analyzing The Poem The United States Of Borg

Since its inhabitance, competition and dominance has been a concept that remains prevalent throughout American life. Past ideologies such as Manifest Destiny, Cultural Imperialism, and Ethnocentrism are all practices and beliefs comprising what it means to be American for many citizens, while also continually shaping outside perception of Americans today. On one hand, many countries have and continue to fully embrace American culture, globalization, and the rise of capitalism. In contrast, many countries have and continue to reject America’s stride for world assimilation regarding their ideals and values.

To begin, “AmeRican,” by Tato Laviera illustrates a hopeful attitude about the Latin customs that have a place in American culture/society. This poem can be interpreted as a celebration of the Latin presence in New York City, and the poet expresses how Latin people is creating a new generation in the United States. Moreover, the way of how Latin people is living and feeling safe into the United States is changing every day. As the narrator of “AmeRican” mentions “Across forth and across back,” (line 20) The narrator wants to demonstrate that he can be free in the city without the necessity of hiding just because he is from a Hispanic background; and that they can express themselves however they want. Indeed, the city is so diverse and many

Luis Carlos Najera Ruiz Mrs. Cummings English II 3 December 2014 REA 2 - Revision 2 In "democracy", W.R. Rodriguez plays with capitalization, punctuation, and syntax to intentionally make this piece harder to understand, set the piece apart from normal, and to re-emphasize a great problem with democracies. While this style of writing makes the piece harder to understand, the impact of the piece becomes much greater since it takes more work to find its meaning. Rodriguez wrote this to convey that Americans are greedy, war-thirsty, and destructive people. The author did this by making the piece hard to understand, therefore he conveys that American traditions are deviant from the normal and difficult to understand. With difficult to understand syntax and the repetition of the phrase "as it had become

Some people may say that culture rarely influences the

Americanization can be both negative and positive depending on the perception of America by other countries. According to The Revolution Is Us by Thomas L. Friedman, the globalization of America is perceived as lazy, fast food based, technology advanced, and liberal in regards to tradition. “Today globalization often wears Mickey Mouse ears, eats Big Macs, drinks Coke or Pepsi, and does its computing on an IBM PC, using Windows 98, with an intel Pentium II processor, and a network link from Cisco Systems. While the distinction between what is globalization and what is Americanization may be clear to most Americans, it is not -unfortunately- to many others around the world.” If this perception is taken into Americanization, the effect would

However, as Americans we are able to turn to what we have learned growing up. Once we are born our family, siblings, and our own culture influence us. We are bought up with certain beliefs and traditions. However, I do think that culture does influences how people are permitted to be expressed and how they are perceived. As for social experience people react to different experience in different ways. If someone has been in a certain situation I believe they learn from that experience.

Moser and Watters state, “Over time, these cultures have mingled and evolved into something new and recognizably American” (Page 1). America is considered to be a melting box because we are a country that has combinations of cultures. People from all around the world come to America to expect equality, since we are known for equality, yet so many people face inequality. These such contradiction also make up American identities because we want to accomplish something and all we do is the opposite of our goal. For instance, we want peace with other countries and help these countries also have peace but when rather start wars or get mad with these countries because they do not do what we had in mind or not follow our rules. Another example would be our society right now. We tell kids to not judge one another because we are all different and unique but that is the first thing we do when we something new or different. This is what makes up American identity. To understand and accept contradiction. To know that we live in contradiction. To know that American identity is

America has not been a land of equal opportunity which leads to success for all who are willing to put forth a concerted effort. America is not a land of free and equal if America was equal then why do we have all these homeless people on the streets, why do we have homeless people who served in the armed forces and fought for our country. In my opinion those are the main people who aren’t supposed to be out on the streets if they fought for our country then they should be the main people to get a house right after they retire from the armed forces. In the poem Let America Be America Again by: Langston Hughes it states, “ Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed, Let it be that great strong land of love

 ( Unknown 1). The close bond among individuals can be lossed due to the different beliefs between one born in a low-context culture and one born in a high-context

No matter what I tried, I could never truly have an objective mindset if I continued defining the term American as I was. If I clung to my own preconceived notion that there was something unique about Americans, I could never be objective. So instead, I began to look at other countries, trying to find parallels. To my shock and dismay, I found that America is actually similar to North Korea in some ways: citizens of both countries are raised on nationalistic pride and are told that they live in the greatest country in the world, that there is no place better. This corrupts one’s ability to look at their country with a truly objective eye. From this, I discerned a troubling fact: all people are the same, regardless of nationality or personal beliefs. There is no true separation between individuals of different countries, helping to develop my current belief that the term American holds no special regard in comparison to the rest of the world. It is simply a term used to allow an individual to feel

Many argue that America has very little of its own culture, or that we never had an identity to begin with. On the contrary, America has a distinct patriotism and pride that has stuck with it since the day they won their independence. Many cultures have fled from their own countries and come to it for refuge- similarly to the way the British colonists had originally fled to America in the hopes of religious freedoms and liberties. America may have many different cultures rather than one specific culture, but this has added to its identity, rather than taken away from it.

The issue of American culture and its globalization has raised a lot of controversy. “The era of globalization” is becoming the preferred term to describe the current times. The term Americanization has been around for years. It was first used when the United States was being heavily immigrated into. The new Americans began to enjoy the freedoms associate with our country and gradually began to act less like a foreigner and more like a real American.

Cultures are judged deeply from others with can be out of how similar and different one is from another. Many cultures are similar in the way one dresses. Or by the way one eats or even cuisine, but with similarities comes differences. One difference almost all cultures is how the live, and how they perceive it, even down to how they express their own beliefs.

Culture is the shared values, norms, language, customs and practices of a group. It also refers to different sub-groups within society. It is important to understand how culture affects our behaviour in order to gain a full understanding of the people we encounter and those we work with. Watson found that the average amount of eye contact made varied between countries, with high degrees of eye contact being seen as insolent by some Africans and East Asians, whereas among Indians and Latin-Americans this was seen as desirable.

The United States prevails as an ever-evolving, unique amalgamation of people, cultures, and influences. Due to the growth of technology use in the world, globalization, the process of interaction and integration among people, is spreading rapidly ("What Is Globalization?”). Historically, people have often identified in a collective way in order to associate with a group, culture, or individual (Miladinovic). However, nowadays, this form of identification cannot be used as people are changing the way with they identify with others, due to the considerable influence of globalization. Though typically used as an economic term, globalization is characterized through a multitude of other factors as well. The onset of globalization has especially influenced culture and identity, most pivotally through industrialization. When smaller cultures are forced to urbanize as a result of globalization, people question modern culture and may even culturally re-evaluate their own culture. As a result, people often abandon their traditional cultures in favor of a conforming to homogeneous mainstream ‘American culture’. In turn with this, psychologically, people impacted by globalization become uncertain of their identity, not knowing which culture to claim: that of their ancestors or that of mainstream American culture. Consequently, people have started to distinguish themselves in a whole new way: through either self-made cultures or through the adoption of a blend of traditional and new