Baltimore Culture

Baltimore city had a strong economy, and it was among the top prosperous cities in the United States (U.S)leadingin wages, jobs, and industries up until the 1950s. Since the 1960s, however, the city has seen a decline in its economy as a result of systematic governance failures. Recently, Baltimore has been experiencing an increase in homicide unlike prior years, and in fact, by the end of 2015, various law enforcement organizations predict the city will break its homicide record. As a citizen, Baltimore’s murder rate is a crucial issue to tackle than police brutality because it is symptom indicative of larger issues that need to be addressed and solved in the black community. Three major issues often talked about in Baltimore

Different social, professional and cultural contexts may affect relationships and the way people communicate due to of a lack of understanding or knowledge of one another’s background and culture. This could be through their race, religion, ethnicity or where they come from. Each one of these can have similar or very different ways to communicate. For example

Social and economic disparities are plaguing the city of Baltimore. There are numerous issues that the city of Baltimore is facing, many of which did not come to light until the case of Freddie Gray. On April 2015, a 25-year-old black man by the name of Freddie Gray fell victim to police brutality. After the discovery of his death and the unreasonable way he was treated, Baltimoreans began to protest. The anger and frustration began to escalate due to other social and economic problems the city faces regularly.

People in society develop their own language on how other’s see them which can be seen

People from different backgrounds may use communication methods differently these may include the language they speak or the dialect they use. They may use different gestures, touch and mannerisms’. Also the volume, speed and pitch of a person’s voice would affect communication. Somebody who comes from a society that speaks quickly with a regional dialect would have difficulty being understood somewhere where they speak more slowly. In different culture gestures can mean different things. The gesture of holding two fingers up can either mean peace if the palm is facing out or if the palm is facing in can be offensive. An aggressive gesture of waving a closed fist in western countries means one is trying to pick a fight or is showing annoyance. In Asian countries this will definitely get you into fist fight.

Communication is all about sharing, what one person says isn’t always what the other person hears or interprets. Where people from the same backgrounds with similar experiences will see and hear things in a similar way, where as one person from a certain culture entertaining a visitor from another culture or country may say something which is totally misinterpreted from the visitor. This can be down to language barriers, slang/jargon etc, an example of this would be an English man saying in

There are a lot of similarities in communicating with children, young people and adults but there are also some differences which involve langue, body langue and communication aids.

People could live in the same country but still have a language barrier, this could be because they may be from a different region. For example: Britain i.e. Bristol, Essex or Glasgow. People from a different region may use the same word but can have a different meaning known as “slang”. When talking to someone, we must use the correct intonation (gestures and body language) so that others know that we are friendly towards them and show that we’re listening.

Language is a very important and significant part of individuals’ life. It is considered as one of the best device of social behavior. Language is a means with the help of which people communicate and send a social message to one another. But language does have very special characteristics according to which it changes and very depending on many factors. According to the researchers there are no two people who speak identically. Their languages vary as per their geographic location, age, gender, ethnicity, social background etc. many a time, it is observed that even the members from same family speak differently due to differences in their location ( Biber & Conrad, 2014). For example, in my neighborhood, there is a difference in the ways of

Home language and culture – Different languages or forms of a language may be spoken at home, as well as accents and pronunciation differentiating between other regions in the same country. People who do not have English as a first language can take pitch and tone in many different ways as for instance they may not use rise and fall in their tone. Body language also needs to be taken into consideration as gesture and eye contact may rarely be used in some cultures. There may also be

Being a native New Yorker from Manhattan myself, I have always wondered why I never picked up this habit of misuse (in addition to many others). It can probably be attributed to the fact that I moved to Staten Island at the age of six and went directly into the first grade. I never went to preschool or kindergarten and already knew how to actually read on the first day of school (my mom taught me herself). My beloved friends, with whom I grew up with all speak with a “Brooklyn accent” and rip the English language apart on a constant basis, including using the term “youse” instead of you as a plural or you all. We all went to the same school, had the same classes and teachers, yet I speak much differently when it comes to grammar, but not the accent. You can tell I am from New York immediately if I ask for a “glass of waader” or a “cup of cawffee”.

In Baltimore, Maryland the city deals with urban geography which is a branch of human geography concerned with various aspects of cities. According to pov-tc.pbs.org, Baltimore is a typical “rust belt” city, filled with endless blocks of ghettos, boarded-up homes, and discarded human beings. Most of the families of fifth and sixth generations are of poverty, resulting in a destructive and a most wasteful lifestyle. According to www.geography.about.com urban geographers generally define the city as a concentration of people with a similar way of life based on job type, cultural preferences, political views and lifestyle. The public education system fails to offer inner-city youth a proper education. They are taught from their first “institution” what their roles are in American society.

Although the language individuals use reflects our identity, language use is not static and changes according to context. This is

No matter where you are in the world, you are taught about language. Whether it’s in your home learning your language or in school trying to learn a foreign language. Although while learning language the notion is never really thought about or brought up that the language and way we speak can influence the way we think and interact. Phycologist and neuroscientist alike have spent years, with multiple different tests to see if there is a connection between the various languages that are spoken and the way people not only think but also how they go about their daily lives. She writes to not only her colleagues and neuroscientists but also to anyone in the general public that is genuinely interested in the connection between

I would love to think that your family background and where come from should not predict how you communicate in life, but who you grew up with, who are your family and where you grew up definitely has a lot of influence of how you are going to communicate later in life