My Daughter's Diverse Cultural Experiences

Diverse cultural, ethnic, and social backgrounds function as sources of person, family, and community values. These backgrounds serve as a function of being the base of the foundation that makes up a family, community, or a person’s values. A culture shapes how people experience the world. It allows them to be a part of a community through interrelation of beliefs, experiences, and traditions that they share through their backgrounds. Social backgrounds influence how they might view their life values and how they see others. Cultural, ethnic, and social backgrounds affects how someone or a group may view and experience communicational, nutritional, and spiritual values along with the rest of the 12 domains of Purnell’s model. Experiencing

In sixteen years of life, I have received an opportunity to experience different cultures, learning styles, and languages. To start of, I am an American since I was born here, but the reality is that I was raised in India. My parents’ main motivation for moving back to India was because they wanted us to embrace our traditions, and most importantly, value our family relationships. We relocated back to the US at the start of 9th grade. This transition was a huge factor for transforming me as a person. I am cognizant of the two systems, cherish both, and realize that these multicultural experiences have encouraged me to grow and mature beyond my years. Relocating from a place is not as easy as one can imagine. When compared to the US, India

How do they create an inclusive, welcoming, and respectful environment where all children, youth, and families can take pride in their cultural identities, beliefs, and practices?

In fifth and sixth grade, I was invited to attend The National Young Leadership Forum, an organization dedicated to serving academically gifted and talented youth. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to spend a week in Washington D.C., where I learned the qualifications of a righteous leader and to develop academic abilities and interests. I will bring my knowledge of leadership to sustain a school community in which students will strive to maintain integrity and trust with each other. By engaging in community service, I have an opportunity to learn experientially, expose myself to diversity, and develop a sense of responsibility. By volunteering in multiple ways in the last several years, I was able to knit hats for children in hospitals, help at a local food bank, create and donate bookmarks for third graders, and help at the Bellaire Public Library. Helping others has given me a great sense of satisfaction and I plan to continue working on various community service projects in the future. Born and raised to Israeli parents, I am benefited with bilinguality, traveling overseas, exposure to other cultures, and insight on global

Danielle Tretyak was born and raised in Illinois until the 7th grade when Tretyak’ s Father’s occupation prompted their family to move across the ocean to Oman. From Oman they moved to Russia and from Russia to India, where Tretyak attended 5 high schools over the course of 4 years. “I am a Third Culture Kid,” identifies Tretyak. “I have a sense of my home country America, but I also carry the cultures of the countries I have lived in.”

Denise Taylor hails from the borough of Brooklyn, where she began to peruse her lifelong devotion to community service. While at the Brownsville Recreation Community Center Denise engaged in After School activities with the youth. Currently, as a director for the Todt Hill Community Center; Denise introduced some of these activities to the youth. She began to cultivate her leadership skills by coaching softball at BRCC as a teenager and has continued to further expand these skills in her career.

Indicates that Caucasian have a higher percentage when it comes to the popularity of diverse culture in Brooklyn New York which is approximately 50% according to the pie chart here but unfortunately the least population next to them would be African American which is approximately 24% the least percentage with the lowest ranking is anyone who is considered to be another nationality. Each color represents the number of people who reside in Brooklyn New York. In figure2 it shows how culture is adaptive to our everyday lives such as language is dynamic and changes over time, however it is found to be a profound influence on how we think about and act toward people by giving a sense of belonging to a group. Whereas can be used also as spark of

As mentioned above, the most shocking thing I noticed was the community, or the way they socialized with and accepted themselves and each other. I think

A way this movie can relate to this class would be the diversity issues of race, and gender. In my Cultural Diversity class we learn a lot about diversity in race and gender and what causes it to take place which can lead to your values of families back then. Values were completely different years back. If you’re taught what is right is to have slaves and it’s all you ever see then people will follow along. Because, if you don’t follow along with the values of ones close to you sometimes it could of lead to death, judgement from family and friends, or even becoming a slave yourself as punishment. Values are described as the deep subjective ideals and standards by which members of a culture judge their personal actions and those of others(Page

Separating the crowd and the game from the passage, in relation to Junior and his cultural experiences, we see the self and intersecting struggles that he faces. Junior is represented as an outsider of the passage. Although belonging to a team, and a community, his reoccurring struggles of identity become clear with the overwriting domination of betrayal. Junior best describes himself within this passage, through his humour, to cover his passive fear of rejection. The skipping of thoughts and ideas, alongside the jokes and laughing within himself, it seems to show some immaturity, developing, his own matrix of domination. The truth behind alcoholism and cultural acceptance, becomes evident within the passage. Acknowledging that although his

I would like to consider my cultural heritage as diverse, but this is far from reality. Over the years as I matured through my teenage years, I was exposed to different cultures by life experiences and travel. I struggled to create both a personal and cultural identity while trying to adjust to my sight loss and with the support of my family I traveled overseas to experience other cultures for the first time. My family opened up their home to a foreign exchange program in turn allowing me the opportunity to travel over to Europe at the age of 16 years old. This opportunity started the slow progression of experiences that would open my mind to others who are unlike myself, especially traveling to a strange place and feeling different in

She will continue to do these events because it is a great opportunity to showcase to others her culture. She has two daughters and one son. Even though the eldest of the daughters on longer dances the culture is still shared through the youngest daughter. It is a great way for her daughter to embrace and share the significant of her culture. She was able to answer all the questions I have asked and was happy to do so.

The concept of globalization, which is the increasing integration and interdependence of different countries from one another in terms of economic, communication, and technological aspects, leads one to address the concept of cultural diversity or multiculturalism. Cultural diversity in the health-care system touches lives of many Americans in one way or another. No matter what our own cultural background is, when we go receive medical care, we may encounter a care giver who comes from a different cultural background than ours(Naylor 1997,291).. In the concept of cultural diversity, it can be recognized that two terms are equally important. The first concept is culture, which refers to the total way of life of individuals, and the unique

Since I started this class, I have a learned a great deal about cultural diversity in the classroom and abroad. My perspective has changed slightly but my knowledge of this subject has improved. In my family, my father taught me about the civil rights movement and the evils of segregation in the U.S. My parents taught me to be tolerant of all humans, no matter what they look like, how they dress, or their sexual orientation. My family has always been liberal thinkers who taught me the dark history of racism and bigotry in this country. As an educator I would be accepting to all race, creeds, and religious peoples.

“Where do you come from?” A question that is most often asked, but not often answered due to the lack of knowing the answer or not sure of the right answer. In a world like today, physical features can change how people view and describe others when it comes to ethnicity. The way someone looks whether that be their skin color, hair texture, or facial features can impact people’s thoughts of determining what that person’s ethnicity is. However, just because someone looks like they are “Asian”, “African American”, or even “White” doesn’t mean that is actually what they are. It is so easy to categorize people into “races” based on their appearance, but someone’s appearance doesn’t always tell you about someone’s ancestry or self-identity. In her essay “The Good Daughter” Caroline Hwang struggles with deciding if she wants to embrace her Korean heritage, or continue embracing her American background that her parents would say she is. The thought of disappointment or not satisfying her parent's vision of her, puts a burden on her efforts to be who she wants and to establish a cultural identity. Hwang used her personal experiences to compose an essay that used the three rhetorical appeals as an essential to prove to her audience the struggles of embracing who people individually want to be when it comes to their identity.