Gender Roles in European Culture

of modernist European techniques with a uniquely Canadian subject matter. Although troubled as a woman, Emily Carr became a progressive Canadian artist because of her unprecedented use of modernist styles in a Canadian setting. To explore her painting style first I will examine her role as a woman in the art world. Secondly, I will analyze her artistic inspiration from modernist movements. Thirdly, I will explore how her consistent subject matter of landscapes and indigenous culture. Together,

different cultures; Navajo, Laguna, and Euro-American culture. Two of the cultures that I will be exploring are the Native communities that I have been well exposed to since I was a child. The values that I will be discussing are gender, education, and money. Growing up on a reservation in New Mexico, I have a closer insight on the similarities and differences of those values. The first value I will be analyzing is gender. Gender is a topic that varies in every culture. The idea is gender has changed

America becomes more diverse, it is important to understand how a family’s culture can influence differences from your own. I will be comparing and contrasting family life’s between African Americans and Europeans. As a person with European descent, I have experienced many situations where my views have conflicted with those from other cultures. The object of the research is to better understand the difference between cultures and express value in unique families. I believe it is every human being’s

The Hmong Culture: Influences in a European American Society The Hmong people do not call any one country home, but have relocated several times throughout history due to war and political oppression. An article published in the Journal of Multicultural counseling and Development finds that the Hmong primarily lived in Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand. They had a great impact in helping western forces during the Vietnam War, and wars in Laos in efforts to end Communism. The article continues and describes

and lived in tipis. 2) Parillo’s main method of supporting his argument is by providing examples of how diverse and complex Native Americans were in language, gender roles, division of labor, clothing, housing, social organization, and values. By arguing their diversity, he is able to counter the stereotypical claims of early Europeans that the natives all fit under an inaccurate generealiation. For example, Parillo writes about how diversity of clothing varied by geographic locations in North

A notion of women have changed through encounter of various European people. Before that, they have their original culture, especially women role in the society was characteristic among mid-seventeenth centry to eighteen century. At the beginning of the book, the author Gunlong Fur shows that women had important role in the Native American society of Lenape. Firstly, they had responsibility of cultivating food, like corn and other vegetables. At this point, women knew when they should sow seeds by

cultural differences between the native nations and European settlers, hostile relations among the two gradually developed due to a multitude of controversial issues. These issues mainly stemming from the contrast of both sides’ everyday lifestyles and traditions. The native nations and Europeans had polar opposite ideas about what women and men should be and what their roles entailed. “ The difficulty that Europeans had in understanding the alternative gender realities to which they were exposed tells us

indigenous nations after the arrival of the Europeans. This essay will argue that colonialism impacted indigenous societies on a social, cultural, educational and religious level which dramatically altered gender relations. This will be done by analyzing why the colonizers were strongly against homosexuality and cross dressing that was common on Indigenous societies and how outlawing those practices altered gender norms. Also, by describing why Europeans believed that marrying Indian women was an

Native American culture is one that is misunderstood and stereotyped in many different ways. After Europeans colonized North America they began to make assumptions and opinions on Native American culture, many of which were misconcenceptions. Since Native American culture was so different then western culture, many Europeans treated it as if it was not a legitimate way of life, instead something that was of the past. With this point of view, many began to build stereotypes for Native American people

Prior to Western colonization, American Indian women played an important role in their communities. Many women were valued for their contributions socially, politically, spiritually, and economically and were viewed as leaders (Poupart p.171). Men and women each held different duties in their communities; women had important tasks to fulfill such as the taking ownership of land, crops, and decision-making. Viewing genders as equals was important in the Native communities because their differences