Essay On African American Culture

The American culture is define to everyone in their own way. Everyone grows up differently in a particular community that shares the same languages, values, rules, and customs. The American Culture on that is consider to be a “melting pot”, because of all the different cultures that reside inside of it making it so diverse. Race in this country has never been a great topic throughout history. African Americans play a huge role into defining what our culture is as a whole, as well as being a part of racism for the past 250 years.

Music is a creative art form that allows the artist to construct something that expresses a purpose. It evolves over time and changes as the world changes, taking on many different motivations behind the melody and lyrics. In today’s society, anger, oppression, racism, and negative opinions rule the media and popular culture. I believe that African Americans need to show their self worth and not let white people hold them back. With the music in white culture often mocking African American culture and portraying negative stereotypes, African Americans have to find ways to gain respect. In acknowledgement of the negative portrayal of their culture, African Americans respond by creating songs and videos that express their pride in their culture and heritage, react to white oppression, and communicate their independence.

As Americans, we are privileged with diverse experiences. With this comes a perceived understanding of many cultures and their influences but in fact full cultural literacy is impossible to achieve.

During my early years of school, I remember being taught white accomplishments and wondering if blacks and other people of color had made any significant contributions to today's world. I noticed that television consist of all white people. Throughout my research paper I hope to cover certain aspects of African American heritage. Aspects such as blacks making up the largest minority group in the United States, although Mexican-Americans are rapidly changing that. The contributions blacks have provided to our country are immeasurable. Unfortunately though rather than recognizing these contributions, white America would rather focus on oppressing and degrading these people. As a consequence American

Slavery began in the late 16th century to early 18th century. Africans were brought to American colonies by white masters to come and work on their plantations in the South. They were treated harshly with no payments for all their hard work. In addition, they lived under harsh living conditions, and this led to their resistance against these harsh conditions. The racism towards the African Americans who were slaves was at its extreme as they did not have any rights; no civil nor political rights.

Diabetes  is a serious health condition that is a chronic illness for the African Americans. Diabetes preventions strategies in African American community can be a tricky task to contain and prevent for several reasons I will discuss in this paper.

African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated; that is 60% of 30% of the African American population. African Americas are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites. “Between 6.6% and 7.5% of all black males ages 25 to 39 were imprisoned in 2011, which were the highest imprisonment rates among the measured sex, race, Hispanic origin, and age groups." (Carson, E. Ann, and Sabol, William J. 2011.) Stated on Americanprogram.org “ The Sentencing Project reports that African Americans are 21 percent more likely to receive mandatory-minimum sentences than white defendants and are 20 percent more likely to be sentenced to prison.” Hispanics and African Americans make up 58% of all prisoners in 2008, even though African Americans and Hispanics make up approximately one quarter of the US population. (Henderson 2000). Slightly 15% of the inmate population is made up of 283,000 Hispanic prisoners.

“Cooning” was a TV show or Film usually they act like idiot behavior that misrepresents African American culture. I think idiot because that shows a deliberate act. Many people called “coons.” Yes, I saw some examples today’s culture some white people still discriminate black people. Some white people were enjoying it, and that seems to some people they insulted African- American behaves. African-American got angry. It was not fair at all that behavior. All are good examples.

Culture is not a fixed phenomenon, nor is it the same in all places or to all people. It is relative to time, place, and particular people. Learning about other people can help us to understand ourselves and to be better world citizens.

African Americans are the most judged group of individuals in the U.S. and around the world. Many American and non-American citizens see African American males as threating and thugs, while others view African American females as angry and ghetto. These stereotypes have led to Blacks being least likely to date outside of their race compared to other races. In this study we will discussing the reasons why White Americans would either object or not object to a member of their family bringing home an African American for dinner, we will also look at how education, gender, and region affect these decisions. In this study we will go into detail about why these attributes can cause different responses with White American. This research is important because there has been little to no research done on how whites really feel about family members dating outside their race and to test why White Americans would either except or object this notion. While White and Black Americans have come a long way in our hatred for each other we still have so far to go. Americans (White, Black, Hispanic, and other) are all entitled to our own opinions but these opinions should not be based off of racism.

The 20th Century presented its own problems and temporary solutions for Blacks. Those years impacted all Blacks, male and female, northerner and southerner, soldier and civilian. Migration, military service, racial violence, and political protest combined to make the 20th century one of the most dynamic periods of the Black experience. Black people contested the boundaries of American democracy, demanded their rights as American citizens, and asserted their very humanity in ways both subtle and dramatic. Let's walk through this century together as we take it one episode at a time.

To this end it is common for African-Americans to not mitigate pain and suffering while pursuing any and all life sustaining treatments made available to them (Barrett, 2002). African-Americans will generally even pursue life saving treatments aggressively when they are informed of the treatments futility (Barrett, 2005).

African American and Indian cultures were examined through a comparison process, in the context of cross-cultural research. The comparison process included similarities and differences between the two cultures, recognition to whether the cultures were collectivistic or individualistic, a theory analysis, influence of culture development and an explanation of any personal biasness concerning the analysis. The research suggest that the Indian culture is a collectivistic culture, focusing more on placing the needs of the group before the individual needs. In contrast, the African American culture was found to be a individualistic culture, focusing more on the needs of the individual over the group, encouraging personal advancement. A theory concerning

Nowadays people are made to feel like they have to look and also set a certain standard. This generation is full of a lot of stereotypical things for example in the movie Black Panther. People made a lot of stereotypes such as “Africans can hunt”, “Africans don’t wear shoes or “Black movies does not sell out to other countries. Black Panther was a perfect representation of the fact that it works to have a Black cast, it works to have a black director and different shade of black people come together and embrace the African culture. After Black Panther the idea of being African and finding heritage has been trending for the most part.

The existential aspect of the group is all about recognition of the existence of African Americans with diabetes as essential human beings with the needs of any other person. The existential part combines both the three model factors under one model factor that is cultural empowerment. As much as the group has been formed or is in place to support the specific population from the community that suffers from diabetes, it also supports and creates more awareness for togetherness and the existence of one to help the other. Cultural identity and cultural empowerment are essential in creating a mutual relationship among different people and increasing the expectation of help by those who are suffering from their brothers and sisters. As such, the ones suffering feel as part and parcel of the community through the actions and the support of the African American with diabetes group. They thus feel like they exist and that other realize that they are part of the community.