Cultural Family History Essay

Migrants cultivate their status as outsiders in a variety of ways. Some migrants are able to collaborate their identities with both the aspects of their ethnic heritage and their local community, at times managing to create a dignified sort of reputation within a sea of suspicious gazes. Then there are some who refuse to perceive their heritage as part of their individual identities, while doing their utmost to belong to a community separate from that of their parents. The struggles of various migrant communities and individuals are difficult to transfix at a simple point. What does appear to be the most prominent strand of commonality, however, is the idea that while migrants may not be able to guarantee a way to avoid being seen as outsiders by others, it is within their everyday abilities to refine their relationships as migrants towards others as they

Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson are two of America’s most celebrated presidents during the 20th century. Theodore Roosevelt who was a Republican had a military background and created the American conservation movement. Theodore Roosevelt was also once shot by an would be assassin and still managed to give his speech. Roosevelt was famous by his quote “It takes more than one to kill a moose.” On the other had Woodrow Wilson who is a Democrat formed the idea of preserve peace. The stories about these men are the stories that are taught in our

Historically religion has usually been a large part of civilizations, states, nations, and cultures. In Poland the case is no different; religion has been engraved in the culture and history of Polish people. Since the introduction of Catholicism In Poland has grown largely and more homogenously Catholic. It can be argued that this was manufactured at the end of the Second World War; through the holocaust and forced migrations by the Soviet Union. The significance of Poland’s strong ties to the Catholic Church is that the church plays a large role in the structure of polish society. The Catholic Church has served as a protector and promoter of polish culture during the times Poland vanished off the map, to the struggles for democracy. As Poland fought to rid them of Soviet influence and become a free democratic society with free elections that Catholic Church played a key role in helping the fall of communism in Poland. However from an alternative angle it can be said that art a music movements were also a key fundamental influence in the fall of communism in Poland. Although entirely opposite, both artistic expression and religion were two institutions of culture that both played significant roles in Poland’s rise to freedom. However it is clear from the work of many musicians, poets and

The identity of an individual is shaped by the experiences and interactions they face in their world. Peter Skrzynecki’s “Immigrant chronicle” highlights this with poems like 10 Mary Street and In the Folk Museum through how Peter interacted and connected to Australia's society while Tim Winton's “The Neighbours” establishes his sense of belonging when connections between him and his community form during their lifetime experience. From this, we learn that experiences and interactions shape our identity and from that, we form connections between communities and places.

In a world where seven billion people can communicate in fractions of a second across the globe, share thoughts and exchange cultures, the way we choose to identity ourselves can often ‘’mark’’ us. You can often tell a lot about someone who proclaims to be Quebecois before being Canadian. And theses thing are often present in areas that have a clash of cultures, such as Québec in the former example. But the author Thomas King dives deeper into the subject with his short story Borders. King’s characters do not attach themselves to the place they were born, instead they take pride in their parents’ legacy, their heritage. By writing through the eyes of a twelve year old boy and using opposition, King displays the importance of such things and how minorities are slowly losing them.

Research by Sarah L. Holloway and Gill Valentines (2000) places an immense focus on characterizing children as competent beings, observing childhood as socially constructed by adult society. This is quite fruitful when uncovering the level of maturity children must develop upon entering a foreign country. Carmela describes adequately throughout the first interview that regardless of her age, it was necessary to begin working, providing for her family, and establishing herself. Studies about immigrants and migrants done by Deborah Boehm (2011) act as a crucial foundation for the intent of this research. Boehm (2011) focuses primarily on the transnational experience of her participants, emphasizing a notion of

In Alice Walker's "Everyday Use," the message about the preservation of heritage, specifically African-American heritage, is very clear. It is obvious that Walker believes that a person's heritage should be a living, dynamic part of the culture from which it arose and not a frozen timepiece only to be observed from a distance. There are two main approaches to heritage preservation depicted by the characters in this story. The narrator, a middle-aged African-American woman, and her youngest daughter Maggie, are in agreement with Walker. To them, their family heritage is everything around them that is involved in their everyday lives and everything that was involved in the lives of their ancestors. To

One tradition I have is, on Christmas morning I wake up and drink hot chocolate and watch a Christmas movie to wait for everybody to wake up. Another tradition is while opening gifts we play loud Christmas music and eat cookies, and, my sister I play our 3DS and wait for people to come over. On Christmas weekend I usually leave to go to my grandparent’s house until Christmas morning, and that got me wondering, I wonder what my other grandma would say if I got a BB gun for a present.

In William Shakespeare's play, "Macbeth" a man named Macbeth, who holds the title Thane of Glamis, stumbled upon three witches. The three witches tell Macbeth " All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth that shalt be king hereafter!" (1.3.49-50) At first Macbeth just brushes it off as nonsense, but then shortly after Macbeth is given a new title which happens to be, Thane of Cawdor, which was the title the witches had called him. After hearing this it makes him jump head first in believing that what the witches had told him was a prophecy, and that he would soon become the next king of Scotland, (the country where Macbeth lives.) Macbeth then sends a letter to Lady Macbeth to tell her the news about the prophecy, which

From the micro-level to the macro-level globalization has transformed the world into a smaller place with constant interactions occurring at every moment between nations, institutions, groups, and individuals. And with this prevalent interconnectivity, migration between the Global North and the Global South has been a controversial consequence of this global integration (Hinojosa, 2015). For this reason one cannot ignore the importance and impact of migrant populations in the country they settle in, and in the countries of origin.

The securitization of international migration according to Samuel Huntington (as cited in Faist 2005), has brought about the ‘clash of civilizations.' This clash further conveys that the securitization has brought about conflicts and “reinforces stereotypes about cultural fears and clashes” (Faist 2005).

Michael Halloran (2004) proposes that culture as a diverse and complex system of shared and interrelated knowledge, practices and signifiers of a society, provides structure and significance to groups within that society which subsequently impact the individual’s experience of their personal, social, physical and metaphysical worlds (p.5). Halloran (2004) theorizes that cultural maintenance is key to increasing the health and well-being of Aboriginal Australians whereby he suggests that culture provides collectively validated ways to think of and value oneself, further arguing that culture helps to suppress fundamental human existential anxieties about social isolation produced by our mortality awareness. Emile Durkheim (Marks, 1974) identifies anomie as being without law or norms, similarly, D.J Spencer (2000)

My understanding of multicultural education has changed as a result of the readings, writings, and discussions. At the very beginning of the semester, I initially said that multicultural education was “including aspects from different cultures into curriculum.” I thought multicultural education was just about cultures from around the world, but now I know that is clearly not the whole picture. Today, my understanding of multicultural education is about providing education to a much more diverse group of people (ie. ability, race, sexual orientation, gender, socioeconomic status, language and ELL’s, etc) and teaching about the diversity to students.

An article written by Kara Somerville in 2008 provides an interesting insight on the issue of transnational identity, and how different factors tend to affect it. Especially the paragraph about the Indo-Canadian immigrants' emotional connections to their both home's offers a good viewpoint on Anil's own process of forming her identity. (p.27) The people interviewed all bring up how

My family history is rather unclear and unexplored. I do know that my maternal grandmother was adopted. My paternal side is said to be Italian. I come from an English speaking family. The geographic range is also unexplored and limited to western Pennsylvania. I grew up in the small town of Nolo, Pennsylvania. I can recall moving from one house to another but within the same county. I did change school districts one time. I would consider this to be very stable. Currently, I reside in Indiana county where I grew up. I have been married for six years and have a two year old son that will soon be a big brother. My wife and I built a home within the same geographical location as our parents. My spouse was also raised in a stable nuclear style family structure.