My Cross Cultural Report On The United States

America is greatly influenced and enhanced by the many versatile cultures which inhabit it. Cultural diversity has added to our economy in such a way that it brings innovated ideas and contact structures throughout the world. International cuisines have come to America through subcultures, have expanded the food industry, and have allowed English Americans to try new foods and flavors. Immigrants have brought with them religious values that greatly differ and vary from those at which were natural in the main stream American culture. The educational development through foreign nationals has led America, as a nation, to excel and be deemed one of the most intelligent nations in the world! Consequently, the subcultures have kept our

The United States is shaped by its cultural myths. Cultural myths are widespread views or notions that are held and propagated by a nation to enforce its values. Among the great American cultural myths is the cultural myth of “educational empowerment” (Mann 110). It is the idea that the quantity of schooling is the yardstick of intelligence and the singular predictor of success. The notion that children fed into the machinery of education at an early age will be extruded further along the process equally and efficiently educated. However, like all cultural myths it is misleading, if not outright false. Problems in education throughout American history have made access to a good education difficult, if not

In America and other countries of similar and contrasting cultures, we like to be right, we like to be on top, and we want to be recognized for both respectively. Competition is an underlying theme in so much of what we do in our daily lives. Whether it’s getting a better grade on a test than your friend, winning a football game or even speeding up faster than the car next to you when the light turns green. Competition, whether we like it or not, surrounds us and we participate in it willingly. We all want to stand on that podium and receive the gold medal, for then we are better than someone else and we can look down upon him or her because we have achieved something they have not. This competition and trying to be better than the person

In January of 2015, there were 564,708 individuals who were experiencing homelessness by unwillingly sleeping outside and not having emergency shelter. In the United States, there were reportedly 33 states where the homeless population was decreasing, while increasing in 16

According to the National Alliance to end Homelessness, 2015, in 2014, there were approximately 548,424 homeless in one night in the United States and out this number there were 362,163 were single individual and 216,197 were those in families. It is estimated that 84,291 are in the category of chronic homelessness, with 49,933 are the nation’s veterans.

Rent in the Washington metropolitan area is rising faster than income, especially for lower-income and working-class renters living in the District of Columbia where rent has become unbearable. Rent has increased, but a lot of renters' ability to pay has not. Majority of the residents in our society are in need of affordable housing. There has been a drastic growth in number of households, having housing affordability problems in our community. According to evidences from Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments 2015 Reports, homelessness has erupted tremendously in our communities. The District of Columbia has about 63 percent as it homeless population, which is the largest amount homeless population in the region. Frederick County, Maryland experienced a 26 percent increase, while Montgomery County experienced a 23 percent increase in it homeless population compared to their homeless population of 2014.This increase occurred primarily due to an increase in homeless families. Statistics confirm that the homelessness trend is rising. To the people who are associated with the homeless environment, I strongly believe that everyone deserve to have a place to call home. My home is my source of happiness, I am truly grateful to have a place to call home, at least for the time being. An individual in any county should have access to a standard form of shelter that

Media is an artistic profession with a lot of positivity related to how the current events reach the mainstream public. With the introduction of social media and online news article, the public has constant access to the material presented by media outlets. During the last couple years there are many instances where media has helped develop an illusion of the American current society with the use of fallacies portraying a negative image of the cultural. Historically, media outlets report according to what the actual media makers and producers believe versus what the current public believes. This causes a mis-representation of American cultural, America’s racism, and statistics on crime.

This essay will focus completely on Mental illness in the UK. To gather my research I used various resources such as websites and books. I have also viewed YouTube videos in order to expand my knowledge. The statistics gathered may not be totally accurate in discussing mental health within the UK for the sources are secondary but it is reliable for giving a view of what the distribution is like amongst gender, age, class as well as ethnicity.

There are about 10,000 homeless people in Seattle, and in a count directed by the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness in 2016, there are approximately 4,500 of those people are unsheltered and on the streets. This is a large amount of people and furthermore, the homeless population increased 8 percent from last year. This alarming amount

How many houses would it take to help put a decent dent in the Washington DC affordable housing crisis. It would take 1,000 houses to help the Washington DC affordable housing crisis. That mean you would have to build 125 houses in the eight wards to even put a dent in the Washington DC affordable housing crisis. The problem is that housing cots a great deal of money. Middle class and lower class can barely afford food and clothes also on top that having to find affordable housing. In result, low-class and middle class face a high risk of being evicted and move often or even become homeless. There are only 39 homeless shelter in the DC area with a population of 672,228. Most families spend about $ 150 less per month on groceries because they

According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness (2016), in January 2015 there were approximately 564,708 individuals living in emergency shelters or outdoors. With the baby boomer population aging, the rate of homelessness among this population has also increased.

During the early 1900’s, The United States government was ruled by white men that have captivated the American patriotism. The patriotism of the American society was greatly enchanted by the white superiors wanting to establish a strong American values and culture. The era of the time gave little hopes and dreams of living in a land that its purpose was to give the opportunities to all newcomers. However it was a different scenario among the Mexican American community. The Mexican communities within the United States are force to adapt to a new tradition due to the defeat of Mexican-American War. The Mexican government efforts to persuade its people to leave the United States were no effect because of their disloyalties to its government. From here on the Mexican-American community in the United States will decide its own self recognition of identity.

Culture is a behavior that consists of several critical elements, such as language, religion, race and ethnicity, clothing and politics. Culture is what one does in his/her daily life. In order to understand others, we must first keep in mind that every culture carries its own set of values and assumptions. Culture is an evolving, ever changing civilization, which includes several different groups people. For immigrants, America is a land of opportunity; for others it is just the best country in the world because of its economic success and/or its democratic political system. Americans usually value independence a lot, believe in equal opportunity, and have a direct communication

American culture refers to the traditions and practices of the people of the United States. Culture comprises of the nature of buildings, religion, music language and marriage. The population of the United States is more than 320 million people making it the most culturally diverse country in the globe. Books such as Crabgrass Frontier, Manifest Destination and Muscular Christianity are important sources of information about American culture. This paper is a reflection on the methods that these books use in providing information about the evolution of the US culture. The paper examines the relationship between these three sources and ways they challenge or inform an understanding of the American society during the late 19th and early 20th century. There is an analysis of the efficiency of the issues tackled by these books in influencing the contemporary discourse surrounding American culture. The major argument of this paper is that Crabgrass Frontier, Manifest Destination and Muscular Christianity provide reliable information about the evolution of the US culture and they supplement each other through the use of relevant examples.

The United States of America being the third largest country in the world with more than 315 million inhabitants, consists of multicultural societies with ethnically diverse population. Since there are a lot of foreigners, the US culture has evolved in such a way accepting and tolerating other foreign cultures. US is very much influenced by protestant work ethics according to which people believe in themselves and their efforts to attain the goal of self-actualization and success. The rich diversity in the culture brought by foreigners, prevailing values of protestant ethics, hard work etc. have helped US to emerge as a superpower in the past years. Nearly every religion had its impact on US culture in one way or the other. The