Changing American Culture

The shaping of any culture requires adaptation to their environment and its problems, such as economical, social and geographical, and the learning from these in order for their culture to live by and survive. The Christian Church would prove the most important in shaping a new European religious civilization. In as much as Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam undergirded civilizations in Asia and Africa, Christianity served as the basic unifying force that held together the new European civilization. (Sivers 2015) This process entails having the ability of shaping ones behavior in order to survive and have this same behavior passed onto the following generations.

The students for a democratic society explain the changes took over the culture of America within the past few years. The government systems or organizations are manipulated and shows no interest towards people rather than “of, by, and for the people.” The threat of war, overpopulation and technology are testing the country’s commitment towards democracy and freedom. The fact is that each individual shows interest in his/her own progress and does not show any interest towards its own fellow people. The institutions and government organizations show a lot of interest towards their profit, but least interest towards the growth of the nation as a whole. Investors bought the skills and potentials of intelligent people for their own profit. There

Throughout the 1960s there was a cultural phenomenon that started in the United States and spread like wildfire to multiple other cultures in the world. This phenomenon was also known as countercultures. This decade raised the 76.4 million Americans born during the baby boom generation. The babies of this boom entered their teen years during the 1960s and they definitely embraced a multitude new standards, dramatically different from the way their parents were raised. While some encompassed new ideals in dress, music and movies others joined countercultures and rebelled against the social norms with poetry, novels and art. Three of the most altering countercultures were the Hippies, the Sexual Revolution and the Gay Liberation.

For the past semester our class has been doing a series of cultural presentations featuring contemporary culture: technology, social and educational standards, and language. Honestly, most of the data presented was rather general, “school is available, some kids drop out, college is optional, the country is attempting to treat men and women equally, men shake hands.” After further compiling and comprehending data I have come to a clear conclusion. American culture is diffusing into various countries, creating similarities and revolutionizing foreign culture. The patterns and evidence are there: North American globalization is real.

The United States is the third largest country in the world with a growing population of more than 325 million people. Because of this, the United States is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. Cultures of Native Americans, Latin Americans, Africans, and Asians shape the U.S. culture. The United States is often referred to as a “melting pot” in which different cultures have contributed their own distinct touch to American culture. One of many things that the United States is known for is mass media production. The United States comprises one-third of the worldwide media and entertainment industry (Zimmermann, 2017). In this analysis, I will discuss American Cultures and Foreign Cultures, American Entertainment Products, and conclude how these together can create a great impact.

In consideration of the current cultural shift in the US, the impact of education, intellect, style of speech, dress, or physical appearance cannot be overlooked. According to Wilson, (2014), the impact of cultural diversity on education and vice versa can be maximized for the benefit of the learners. While any institution and educational system have increasingly incorporated new strategies and concerted efforts towards formulating and implementing strategies and systems geared at cultivating cultural diversity and leveraging college affirmative action. While the author intended to analyse the purposeful incorporation of diversity efforts within post secondary system-wide and institutional strategic plans, the author mainly focused on institutional

In modern day American culture; American citizens have become ignorant to many issues that affect people globally. Unless it seems to directly affect them people tend to be completely apathetic to gaining new knowledge of foreign occurrences, and why would they? America has fallen into an age of egocentrism in which it fails to consider the problems many people globally face, those issues which are considered unimportant or irrelevant by media sources country-wide. The ineptitude of Americas populous on issues of foreign economical and geopolitical matters is astounding. While our focus has been so concentrated in places where we are not needed, and have been repeatedly told we are not wanted, there have been many in need that have been brushed over.

One of the factors of culture that could impact student achievement is that their home environment does not prepare them for the work they do at school. Students increase their vocabulary and background knowledge by reading many books. If there are very few or no books at home, students are not able to practice the skills they need to be successful at school. Vocabulary may also be impacted by the amount of verbal interaction students have at home. Vocabulary building is key to building background knowledge for reading. When students enter school, they know about 5000 words but ELL students might now 5000 words in their native language but very few in English. “While native speakers continue to learn new words, ELLs face the double

In modern western society, ‘bigger is always better’. We consume in excess with little regard of the environment. “We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don't like.” (Milchan & Fincher, 1999). This has become the motto of modern American society. We are convinced we need a lot of what we consume, when really these things aren’t a necessity. If each American took some time and really evaluated what their actual needs were and scaled their wants back, we could really impact the global ecosystem immensely; take for instance infomercials, laughable exaggerations of “struggles” in modern society. Having trouble winding up your water hose? Buy another hose that is a slightly different shape. American attitudes will not change unless we stop the feeding frenzy that is hyper-consumerism and start focusing on what we can do to make our world better.

The culture and economical impacts that the american indigenous people had on the europe and in return is that the american people impacted them on culture by their tradition of creating items, there food and the way on how they have dressed. The reason on how they have effected them on how they created items. When the indifenouse people were creating somethnig they would regurarly gather items to make like when crafting different kinds of guitars regurarly was created by a use of an armadillo

Until I reached high school, I had never noticed how I was constantly surrounded by white people, and white people only. As an adopted Asian girl who grew up in a white family and community, I have come to learn that the ways strangers perceive me is completely different from my identity. My physical appearance is Asian, however, my connection to my Chinese background is nonexistent. I have never been back to China, I do not know Chinese, and I know virtually nothing about Chinese culture. In social and academic settings, people automatically see my physical appearance, making assumptions about my background and ultimately arriving at the conclusion that I am an immigrant who did not grow up in America. Contrary to this assumption, I was adopted

Not all cultures are the same as The United States. America is “the melting pot” and it is hard to find a set culture because we are a still relatively young country. In many other countries such as India, China, Japan, or Pakistan they do have a set of traditions that do matter and they are taken very seriously. The book of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, readers are able to see a difference in the way people from India are brought up in relation to people from mainly the New England area of The United States. The story strongly indicates coming of age, finding the American dream, and family drama by either loss or new beginnings.

Important to note, one’s culture often dictates right from wrong, and not all societies agree with the view of modern American culture and traditions (Abu-Raiya, 2014). In truth, the America’s remains relatively young regarding established countries and at times, more morally conscious than many global territories (Armstrong, 2006). Still, preludes for sexual iconography seemingly continues to increase with the internet, and other media resources availabilities are rampantly saturating society with intimate expressions (Armstrong, 2006; Barker, 2011). Most unfortunate is how the above sources assist with the natural predatory nature of man. Glamorizing sexual indiscretions with a mercenary of illusionary imageries have many individuals pursuing different identities and unnatural sexual actives and favors.

To become successful one must have the following: a big house, a beautiful spouse, a sports car that is worth more than your house, and kids that are equal to that of Nikola Tesla. Yes these are common defining traits of what the American culture views as “successful” it is not the defining items that make them so. Some say that is the way that people carry themselves, that someone can walk into a room and own it. This trait is seen as either one of two things. Someone who has such an inflated ego that they can’t fathom their situation or someone who knows the ropes and is there to say “I made and so can you.” Under all the heartache and grief of the school year it is hard to say that we are barely capable of a crawl compared to

As a child, growing up in a predominantly Hispanic middle class community in East Carson California, I never felt different from anyone. I did not understand what it meant to be a little Mexican brown girl until I moved to a different part of Carson at the age of 12. From the day I was born to the age of 12, I had always lived in East Carson where it was predominantly Hispanic. I was raised in a household that incorporated our Mexican culture and traditions. My grandparents came from a generation of “Machismo” but the “Machismo” skipped the later generations of my parents. My parents and my extended family were very supportive and encouraged me that my gender was nothing to hold me back and constantly reminded me that I had American privilege and opportunities that they did not as immigrants. I never understood what they meant until I reached adulthood and everything became apparent. As an adult I did come to understand that my gender would be an issue to the outside world both in Mexican and American culture. Furthermore, I came to understand that I did indeed have American privilege as my immigrant parents and other family members did not.