Clash of Cultures

They all wanted that land for themselves. The native believed that was their sacred land and no one else could have it. The colonist thought it was a land full of gold and they would name it “Jamestown”.

Within the Native culture and the Colonial cultures in North America, there are confusion, misjudging, assumptions and conflicts among the two.

Jamestown was the very first settlement that was established in the United States. The colonists had trouble making and enriching Jamestown. The English Colonists constantly encountered Powhatan Native Americans and violence caused tensions between these two groups. On top of that, the Colonists suffered from disease and a low supply of food. They still overcame those challenges and all contributed in building the town in the winter of 1609. Jamestown was the start of a chain of events, that helped develop the United States as a country. People who inhabited Jamestown continued to progress and make new towns and

One hundred and five men and boys sailed across the atlantic ocean for three months to establish the Jamestown colony. They had not planned many important things they did not have any woman, or laws, and they had settled around some swamp land meaning that there were mosquitoes so some men would die of diseases that the mosquitoes carries. This location was not bad for it would be easy to defend against any spanish invasions for they were surrounded by water. They weren't all failures for they had cash crops; tobacco was one the major reasons why the Jamestown colony was a great success and maintained an established colony. The Jamestown colony would come to become one of the first permanent english settlement. The House of Burgesses was the beginning of a self-representative government. Captain John Smith was said to have saved the colony from starving he traded with american indians for corn and they learned how to grow corn. The reason behind the founding of Jamestown was solely to get more land for the english were mad that spain were getting all this land and they wanted to be part of that.

The first settlers of Jamestown endured the problems of aggressive Indians, starvation, and lack of leadership. Living in Jamestown was tough for the English colonists as they encountered Powhatan’s Indians, whose ancestors had lived on the land for centuries. They also had struggles among themselves, as they tried to forget how it was for them in England and they had to work and live with people of different backgrounds and social classes. And let’s not forget the harsh times they had to go through to stay united as a group with such horrible times, for example the “starving time”. Jamestown was rough and not very homelike, not only because of their tough environment, but also because they lacked leadership and had very poor government. Soon they would discover how to survive and make a good living off the new lands. This will lead to a creation of a new generation and therefore create what we now know as America.

The Native Americans had nearly a hundred deaths due to the harsh winter in 1609. The colony was on the brink of failure and when the settlers got ready to abandon the colony a ship with almost 150 men carrying supplies on ships arrived. The new settlers were sent by Lord De La Warr. He was the new governor of the English colony. He later died and the new governor created a new system of laws that which then began to try to take control. The Powhatan tribe didn’t like it and later the Jamestown killed some of the Algonquians. They had their first war in 1610 known as the Anglo-Powhatan war. After the war the colony begin to decline. Then John Rolfe came to Virginia and brought tobacco to Jamestown. Tobacco saved Jamestown and ensured its economic survival. By 1619, Virginia was exporting large amounts of crops. The colony wanted to grow in production and capital so, they offered fifty acre land grants to anyone supplying their own passage to attract others. The Algonquians became unhappy and angrier with the settlers because of their insatiable need for

The English settlement of Jamestown, Virginia, was founded on May 14, 1607 by Captain Christopher Newport and his fleet of a hundred or so Englishmen. During the next nine decades, this settlement would begin as "a verie fit place for the erecting of a great cittie(Tyler, 33)", and develop into "nothing but Abundance of Brick Rubbish, and three or four good inhabited houses(Miers, 107)." Two major factors led to the gradual decay and destruction of Jamestown: (1) The profit-before-survival attitude of the English settlers, and (2) the persistence of the Indians of the area to drive the English from their native lands.

Jamestown was settled in 1606 and was the first successful British colonization of continental North America. Like other attempts at settlements, Jamestown had rough beginnings. Due to a winter so cruel that it almost wiped the colony out and relations with the Native Americans that were tenuous at best, the settlers did not have large food supplies or hopes for Jamestown. Nevertheless the settlement got back on its feet. Stellar leadership and the planting of tobacco were Jamestown’s saving grace, allowing it to grow, flourish, and set itself apart from the other colonies.

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Callum Watson, 20 years has achieved this outstanding musical reputation through his work as a pianist and composer. This has seen him compose music for over five theatrical productions in his position as Musical Director for Western Edge in Melbourne. Recently, Callum has developed a reputation for composing concert music. His composition “Clash of the Cultures” featuring various ethnic instrumentation from Didgeridoo to Sitar to Bagpipes was very well received. For this work, Callum was awarded the Margaret Schofield Scholarship for composition. Currently, Callum is studying a Bachelor of Music degree at Monash University specialising in Composition.

The collision of the cultures combined the new and the old. Both were changed by contact. It’s like a mixing of the cultures, so you were living in both at the same time. A mestizo can have ancestors be native to Europe and Americas. It’s hard for them to accepted by popular culture. Because of this clash of culture, it’s like a mix of culture since the Europeans joined.

Have you ever had a traumatic moment in life? If so, how would you feel if you were reminded by it in a setting where you should feel the safest in? Many students around the country are emphasising the need for “trigger warnings,” alerts that the material students are about to read or see in class might upset them or, cause symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Why not prevent these feelings of fear and sadness in class? It’s better to prevent these situations than to tiptoe around them. Trigger warnings are necessary in classrooms.

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Cultural competence is the ability of health care providers to effectively provide health care services to patients and keeping in mind their social, cultural and linguistic needs. Utilizing cultural competence, health care providers can improve health outcomes, and quality of care. Cultural competence is not focusing on one aspect of a patient but all aspects and integrating those aspects into their plan of care.

It is not difficult to imagine oneself being misunderstood when immersed in a new culture. Intercultural conflict is bound to occur when two people from different cultures interact because each culture has unique values. Therefore, when an American and an Italian American become friends, it is likely that their different cultures will cause conflict. The key to solving this conflict will be sympathizing with one another. Throughout this paper, a conflict regarding unalike views on the meaning of ‘on time’ will be described, explained, and solved.