Common Influences On American Culture

Plants, Animals and Food: When Europeans met Americans, both groups saw animals and plants they had never seen. European horses were big and tall, in contrast to the small animals that the Americans had. Cows and pigs were also imported from the Old World and carried hamburger and pork in America. Asian rice began to grow in America. Likewise, plants and animals from America were returned to the Old World.

Modern American society beliefs have influenced my identity, values, and beliefs. The American society believes highly in technology, which influences my beliefs, and has me relying on technology for many things. However the american society also shapes my beliefs in a different way, if there is something that America, as a society believes in, then I may find myself believing the opposite, simply because I didn't want my opinion to be made by society. My values are most definitely influenced by society, I often fall for society's attempts to tell me that i need more ‘stuff’, and that puts material items in my values. America, as a whole is less family centered, so I often find myself valuing my friends over my family. Lastly, my identity,

The different cultures in society have impacted the external outlook of America, but America is still based on achieving maximum liberty and protection of the rights of humans. There is no doubt that America continues to be an ethnically diverse country, as the

Perspectives can be controversial, commonly used as topics for debates and in fact, used to solve certain disputes between people. First, to understand the idea of perspectives, the definition of “perspective” is the state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, the faculty of seeing all the relevant data in a meaningful relationship, basically a mental view or prospect. All these definitions, taken from the dictionary, are linked and are somewhat related the common factor being, they are all formed by certain ideas, ways of seeing the world and its problems or its occurrences in general. An example of clashing perspectives having a significant impact on all of our lives would be perhaps past wars and feuds.

American Lore is just like any other lore it has myths, legends, and fairy tales, but American lore shows the history of America and how we live today, with a twist to the story. With Legends, myths, and fairy tales it expresses the way americans think and how creative we can be to come up with these stories from things that could actually happen. Legends are based on historical facts Myths are based on religion and gods and goddesses. Fairy Tales are made believe not real, includes special creatures. Tall tales and legends are more based in American lore and is heavily based on history and the many traditional stories that are spread from generation to generation. American lore is based on, “power social status and prestige, control or dominance over people and resources. Achievement which is a personal success through demonstrating competence according to social standards . Hedonism pleasure or sensuous

In order to effectively analyze cultural differences and power struggles that were demonstrated on the macro and micro level, one must understand the environmental dimensions that were associated with the target population. The dominant American culture often unconsciously ignored the cultural differences with the inferior group that was shared in their environment. As the dominant culture, it is always important to be culturally competent and familiar with the non-dominant culture morals and beliefs. Comparatively, the individuals psychological and spiritual dimensions that were influenced by the social behavioral perspective on the micro level, were associated with their target population.

Since the very first Europeans settled in America and came across the natives that had lived there for thousands of years before, cultures have come together. While some moments in history show the negative side to cultures meeting, there have also been good times. As time has passed, growing up in such a diverse culture has been positive. With food, religion, and languages, the blend of cultures has brought so many people together.

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.

Culture is a very vital part of the world as we know it today. There are very many different cultures all around the world. In the USA, we have a mix of all the different cultures and and family values. From the original Native Americans that inhabited America to the Middle Eastern people in Afghanistan. These people groups have brought their language, food, values, and customs with them.

When Europeans started to travel to the Americas, they had other Intensions in mind; to bring with them the Christian religion. The men that arrived there began to have relations with indigenous women, which lead to a mixing of cultures. Although the European men overpowered the indigenous people, there were some who continued to worship their own beliefs privately (Bentley, Ziegler. Pg 539)

‘Perspective’ can be defined as “a particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; a point of view.” (Oxford English Dictionary, 2010) In the realm of literary form and structure, perspective deals with how the reader understands a body of work. If a story is in the perspective of an omnipotent narrator, we can look into the minds of secondary or third characters, to further our knowledge on their dispositions—their thoughts, beliefs and emotions on specific situations within the work. When we can only see, hear, feel, and understand the thoughts of a singular character in a story (usually the main character), certain things are not able to be perceived. We cannot understand what the other characters are thinking or feeling. As critically

All in all, American society is established on the Western culture, yet America is a multicultural country because of the diversity of culture that brought by immigrants. Even though Western culture is dominating in America, Mexican and African American culture are a part of the social norm because their population are higher than Asian or the other minorities.

My father is from Pakistan, and came to America for the first time when he was twenty-one years old. The drastic change in culture was difficult for him to cope with in the beginning, but eventually he adapted. My mother is also an immigrant from Pakistan; she came to America when she was about eighteen years old. Both came for one sole purpose- education. Being the oldest from three siblings and a first generation American, I’ve always valued my parents sacrifices.

They say that the United States of America is “The Great Melting Pot,” a place where no matter what their culture or country of origin they are accepted. Contrary to common belief, America in actuality is not a melting pot in fact, America is more like a huge salad bowl. This implies that even after coming into this country you hold on to your culture. You don’t take on the characteristics of the new culture or society; it is a mixture of a lot of different thing but you can still tell the apart in the salad. It is composed by many different people from almost every place around the world. For example, many ingredients create one dish as many Americans create the United States. British being one of this country many influences, England has had a huge impact on the states. Without Britain’s influence we wouldn’t

Perspective is a specific vision you have on something or someone; a point of view. The world revolves around people ideas, thoughts, and actions. That’s why as you continue to grow throughout your life, your mind will begin to change and start to emerge in its own thoughts. This is what we call “a turning point in your life”, this is what makes every person different and unique in their own way. For me a turning point in my life would be when i was diagnosed with epilepsy. I couldn’t have predicted the magnitude that this would have on my life. Both mentally and physically changing me into the person i am today.