Asian Values And Cultural Diversity

Culture is one of the most important things in people’s lives that can influence individual’s value, ideas, actions, and thoughts. Cultures vary and have different values from one country to another. America is the country has many people are immigrants from other countries. America is an exemplary example of diverse cultures due to immigration. America is a melting pot of various cultures. In the article “The Young, the Rich, and the Famous: Individualism as an American Cultural Value”, Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel, a Thailand professor, talks about how American culture is different and strange compared to her own. In the article, much of her attention focuses on individualism of America. Individualism is a way people emphasize each individual's

The values are the principles or standards which could include rules of conduct, respect, honesty, kindness, sharing and appreciation.

In a properly ordered society everyone would benefit to varying degrees. Humane treatment of self and others begins in the familial environment spilling over into all aspects of life. The very foundation of proper order is the importance of human interests and all other characteristics of proper order are dependent on these interests. Confucianism is a multifaceted system of moral, social and religious thoughts prominent in the history of East Asia. Confusciouos teaches that it is unrealistic to believe that proper order equals equality. In the western culture beliefs support that equality should triumph over all. Individuals who grow and work for themselves are held in the highest regard because East Asian culture includes the belief that people should get what they earn based on how hard they work. Balance is a necessary building block in promoting a cohesive environment. A persons or

There are some common ways in which different cultures express their values. Cultures value different things. Some ignorant people think that this also means all cultures do not have similarities to teach or express values. In “Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning” it conveys how a professor recorded how American families talked about intelligence being something people are born with. In contrast, in Eastern families they talked about how hard work brought intelligence (Spiegel). This passage shows extremely different values, but when examined, researchers can see they both were expressed through speech. This discovery is not surprising

Educators should critically examine their own values, beliefs, and attitudes related to difference in diversity because we as individuals all have different experiences, beliefs, values and attitudes that can be quite diverse. Staying mindful of this difference is essential in professional practice. For this to really be effective, you need to critically reflect on how your own life events have shaped your beliefs, values and attitudes. Educators must put all assumptions and bias’s aside and keep an open mind when dealing with these differences. For example, by reflecting on your background, you can become aware of biases and prejudices that may impact on your relationship with others from different backgrounds. Once identified, you can then

Individualism is a habit of being self- reliant. A cultural value is a persons desired and preferred way of acting. Every culture has their own cultural values and individualism but whether individualism is their cultural value is up to the person entirely. This could pose a conflict when persuading the wrong culture especially a culture as diverse as the American culture. Poranee Sponsel is a born and raised Thai who is now a professor at a university in Hawaii and gives us the outsider’s perspective of the American culture. In Sponsel’s article “The Young, the Rich, and the Famous: Individualism as an American Cultural value” Sponsel

Considering the specific characteristics of Asian culture, the explanations can be drawn from two perspectives: what decreases the risk and what hides the risk. From general perspective to specific perspective, the following sections will compose the whole

Does race really matter on our tv screens? The facts, statistics and stories that follow this question almost a century after the invention makes the answer clear. What you see on television is a big part of what how people regard other cultures and diversity as a whole. The misconceptions of how the world looks and works dramatically impacts the audience, and what they think is the societal norm.

Ronald Takaki writes a very powerful introductory paragraph to show that people need more education on culture diversity. Takaki describes his experience when he was racially profiled by his taxi driver on his way to a hotel. He introduces his setting as Virginia which according to the census bureau has a 70.2% white population to show he is in a predominately white area. He also describes his driver as a “white man in his forties”(539) to portray him as the “average american”. Meanwhile Takaki gives no clue to the reader about his ethnicity or background so we can interpret how his driver was stereotyping Takaki in the following conversation:“How long have you been in this country?” he asked. “All my life,” I replied, wincing. “I was born

Asian Americans are now the fastest growing racial group in the United States that consists of over 20 national origin groups with distinctive ethnicity, language, religion, cultural practices, immigration history, and socioeconomic status and mobility patterns. Yet, heterogeneity among Asian Americans is seldom explored empirically. In this dissertation project, I examine how intra-Asian American heterogeneity may affect ethnoracial group boundary formation and positioning in the United States using intermarriage as a key indicator. Specifically, I ask: how do contemporary Asian American interethnic and interracial marriage patterns explain their ethnic group boundary formation and racial group positioning in the United States? Intermarriage

The culture that I chose to present is the Asian American culture. It is one of the fastest formed ethnic groups that had their population grow 63% from 1990 to 2000 (Nguyen, 1). The history of the first Asian immigrants started around the gold rush in California. Many Asian immigrants wanted to pursue fortunes in America because of economic hardships in China. Many Chinese started moving to the United States in hopes to get some of the gold in California. Many Chinese were also contracted to work on the railroads in the United States where they worked in very poor conditions for little money and recognition for their hard work. The Chinese even demanded high wages for their work in these poor conditions, but ultimately they were shot

The United States of America is commonly known as a melting pot of different cultures and groups. Due to extensive immigration from numerous countries since the 1800’s, American society is characterized to be culturally diverse. Asian-Americans, who have a rich history in the United States, have positively blended into the American society with their inborn cultures. Asian-Americans have been identified as the largest group of immigrants with high levels of income and proper education. However, American society has traditionally been conservative and didn’t have particular interests for Asian-Americans. Instead, Asian-Americans were secluded from the activities of white conservatives and were labeled as a separate group altogether. Thus, in

Cultural collectivism is a characteristic of Asian culture, whereas, cultural individualism is more of a characteristics of American culture. Asian Americans tend to be interdependent and Americans tend to be independent. (Costigan, Bardina, Cauce, Kim, & Latendresse, 2006). Asian Americans typically value the family, men and elders. American cultural values do not place honor on men or elders. Asian Americans bestow honor to elders, typically greeting them formally and bowing (PBS, 2015). American culture values family and the elderly, however American culture has created long term care facilities for the elderly to go when they are too old to live alone. Asian Americans typically bring their elders to live

Since I started this class, I have a learned a great deal about cultural diversity in the classroom and abroad. My perspective has changed slightly but my knowledge of this subject has improved. In my family, my father taught me about the civil rights movement and the evils of segregation in the U.S. My parents taught me to be tolerant of all humans, no matter what they look like, how they dress, or their sexual orientation. My family has always been liberal thinkers who taught me the dark history of racism and bigotry in this country. As an educator I would be accepting to all race, creeds, and religious peoples.

Every culture has its own views of health care, diseases, and medical interventions. The way people of a given culture view health care affects how they handle themselves when they fall ill. For instance, the Asian culture believes that illnesses are caused by supernatural phenomena, which should be diagnosed and treated by means of spiritual healing or traditional herbs. Physicians and other medical practitioners should try to understand the cultural beliefs of their patients to handle them appropriately.