Different Cultures In The United States

Before describing the dominant culture in the United States, we first need to know what culture is and what a dominant culture is. Culture is the life style people choose. This includes language, religion, values and norms that a group of people accept without thinking about it. Now that we know what culture is, what is a dominant culture? The dominant culture in a society is the established language, religion, behaviour and norms that are proper to a certain culture. This is the dominant culture. Most often, dominant culture is the most powerful culture in a country and has the most powerful people or the most people associated to the culture.

The children who live in your neighborhood are the ones that will be playing with your children. Wouldn’t you want to know where that child’s family is coming from? We need talk to those around us who are from dissimilar cultures and ethnicities. Awareness of other cultures also helps to endorse personal growth by making you confront conventional typecasts about other cultures and learn how to interconnect with people of different cultures.

The United States of America is a perfect example of cultural diversity. Starting with the Mayflower landing in Massachusetts Bay in 1620, to the Great Migration from 1915 to 1930, to the continual immigration into our country today this country has seen its culture grow and reshape itself over the years. The culture of the United States is diverse but understanding and appreciating various cultures does not always exist within today’s classroom or in today’s society. Understanding or even defining cultural diversity , identifying the challenges cultural diversity brings, or how to face cultural diversity are all issues educators face in today’s classroom.

Based on my experience in Eastern Europe and in North America, I fully embrace both Serbian and the different cultures that are in Canada. In the summer, I try to go to as many Serbian events as possible and at these events, there is traditional music, food and dancing which I enjoy so much. Unfortunately, I have not gone to many events of different cultures but I do like to educate myself about different customs and traditions in order to build on my awareness and knowledge of different types of cultures. I am Christian Orthodox in which I celebrate Christmas on January 7th and I always enjoy going to the church services for this Christmas celebration. Also, I fast where I do not eat dairy or meat products for a few weeks before Easter and

Often, I consider whether there are other living creatures around that we have not yet found. A while prior I had a thought to investigate the universe all the more intently. In light of my interest, I recently went by an irregular planet called Earth. As I landed on Earth, everything was extraordinary; it was as though I was trapped in a snow globe all my life and did not know anything past. Consequently, I felt ecstasy as I walked through a narrow pavement exploring the nature around me. Our own particular planet varies in a wide range of viewpoints. In addition, there are frequent significant differences in other living creatures. I observed a common species and examined them well; they refer to themselves as humans, more specifically Americans.

There were several distinct cultures that existed within the United States of America during the 18th century, particularly in the early part of this century (No author, 2010). Despite the fact that European colonialists had been attracted to this land in earnest since the 17th century, there were still many tribes of the region's native inhabitants, Native American Indians, that still populated the country. Of the many cultural differences that existed between these two population groups Europeans and Native Americans the most salient was the regard that each culture had for land and its inherent value. This difference proved so influential because it was one of the contributing factors that eventually led to the displace and eventual demise of the Native American population.

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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

Throughout the different cultures around the world, there are many traditions that have been in place for many years. These traditions have been passed down from generation to generation and are looked at as being normal in these cultures. To the United States, and other parts of the world, some of these traditions are looked at as being crazy, bizarre, and even strange. There are many different cultures and unique traditions associated with them, but these are 5 interesting traditions found around the world.

I decided to do my cross cultural report on The United States, Washington DC in relations to London England. The topic that I have chosen is Mental Healthcare. I have often witnessed our mental health people in Washington DC and believed enough has not been done in the to rectify this problem especially the youth. First let’s examine The United States Mental healthcare system and then London England. We will discuss the developmental domains of both countries, the laws and practices, attitudes as well as cultural influences. We will also point out some key differences and similarities between the two countries.

Very often people live their lives without the awareness of the basic structures that they are exposed to and adapted into. The very things that regulate our day to day lives are often overlooked or never noticed. Johnson discovered this while vacationing in Mexico. While appreciating his time away from home, he came to realize that he had lost his actual sense of time. This created a feeling of uneasiness and the general feeling of being lost. Johnson wasn’t lost in the sense of being in an unidentified place; he was lost due to his withdrawal from his cultural time structure. Nature is not defined by minutes, hours, weeks, or years. “Time” is a creation of people, yet in some cultures is regarded as being “natural”. Because systems are integral to culture, Johnson came to realize that time organization is much more than creating a distinction between specific moments within a given day. He realized that the concept of time was created to allow a cultural structure to regulate itself and to organize the people within it. It allows for efficiency and the ability of people to conduct themselves within their culture’s expectations.

Through the course, I learned about several pairs of different communities: Germans and Austrians, Austrian and Hungarians, Hungarians and Yugoslavians, and Croatians and Serbians. These communities separated themselves from each other through various aspects, including language, religion, cultural practices, history, ethnicity. In all the communities I was most interested in the community division between constituent republics in Former Yugoslavia, especially the division between Serbs and Croats. Serbian and Croatian communities share many elements. They both live in the Balkan Peninsula. They are both Slavs. Also, the language difference is very small. Croatian and Serbian are more like two dialects within the same language. With all these

I have been exposed to a few different cultures in my life thus far. When I first read the requirements of this assignment, I thought that I have not been exposed to enough cultures to do this assignment well. Though, after watching the video and taking some time to think it over, I realized that I am apart of and have interacted with many different cultures. I will summarize a few of them here.

For years “immemorial”(21) the First Nations people lived off the land and developed a spiritual relationship with the land and each other. When Europeans arrived, First Nations people had personable relations with them and the implementation of treaties was intended to secure those relations. However, the two parties perspectives on treaties, the process of negotiations and their motives varied greatly. These differences were also culturally predominant which led to future complications. These complications have negatively effected the First Nations, damaging their culture, the effects of which they have yet to recover from. The First Nations treaty relationship is spiritually guided by numerous principles that seek to benefit both

By reading the chapter I think we all can agree that all cultures and groups deal with the same struggles when coming to a different country. If you ask me all majority of foreign exchange students that are immigrants, refugees, part of minority groups members and E.T.C all had to deal with some form of anxiety because it’s a new place that they probably never heard of before. Disconfirmed expectations because unlike America there’s some countries show nothing but their own culture: in other words, if you’re not exposed to other cultures or even countries it’s hard to think that people’s ways of acting and living are going to be way different from yours. Rejection is something that all groups go through (even Caucasians) because by living on