The Culture Of The United States Essay

As Eddie Huang writes his memoir Fresh Off the Boat he brings many points across about his culture and his lifestyle, but through the whole memoir his most provocative point he tried to convey to the audience was his struggles with the American culture and the opinions of others regarding him and his culture and the lack diversity he had to deal with. For example, Huang had many encounters with other kids at school over his ethnicity and the difference of culture.

As Eddie Huang writes his memoir Fresh Off the Boat he brings many points across about his culture and his lifestyle, but through the whole memoir his most provocative point he tried to convey to the audience was his struggles with the American culture and the conflicting situations he seems to get himself caught in with this new culture. For example, Huang had many encounters with other kids at school over his ethnicity and the difference of culture.

Over the past 100 years, the United States has changed the way it views other cultures including more respect, equality, and freedom for all people. As much as America has grown, has America really changed that drastically? Across the nation and world, cultural differences still exist, misunderstandings continue, and fighting persists. Recent attacks within the United States that are similar to the conflicts between the Japanese and Americans in the early 1900’s include the 9/11 attack, the bombing at the Boston Marathon, and the mass shooting in Orlando.

The moment I wake up in the morning thinking that my day would be exactly as I expect it, shaped of beliefs, values, morals, and the views on diversity, means that it would be a great day. However, I can’t only thank these sources for whom I am, my own personal experiences and feelings have had a huge impact on my cultural views. I’m a sport loving player, who was raised in a small town in Cuba, Pinar Del Rio. In 2009, I completed my journey from my home country, to the land of freedom “United States”, but it has always been of major importance to not forget my roots, and to remember my cultural heritance. And like any other immigrant, it is very important to assimilate and try to fit in the American culture.

I grew up in a small town, which was highly populated with individuals of Basque descent. My grandfather severed in the military and was stationed in Basque Country. Despite the large Basque population surrounding me, I knew very little of the culture and traditions commonly found within the Basque Country. “The homeland of the Basque people, commonly called the Basque Country, is located on the Bay of Biscay at the western end of the Pyrenees mountain range, straddling the border of France and Spain. The nearly 8,000-square-mile Basque Country is divided into seven administrative districts, four in Spain and three in France. Basque culture is distinctive from that of the rest of Spain in many ways” (Thomas, par. 1). This assignment has allowed me the privilege to interview and spend time with Maria Begona Narvaiza-Peck. I was able to experience the Basque culture through conversation, photographs, museum, and meals.

I am a part of the Polish culture, a culture which is very much related to food. The most I’ve felt proud about my culture was when I worked and went to a Polish food festival during every Labor Day weekend called Taste of Polonia. It is hosted by a Polish culture center called Copernicus Center. I worked there last summer which I helped with maintenance (which I scraped paint thinner off walls and ripped out weeds out of the ground) and my dad (which I stuffed envelopes with letters and did PhotoShop). It was fun, but the most fun I had at Copernicus was at Taste of Polonia. There was Polish music (which can be soothing and annoying at the same time) and delicious Polish food. Since my dad works there, I got unlimited food due to the amount

Early North American cultures often used their art to express their spiritual rituals and beliefs. North American Eastern Woodlanders were an established, settled community. Their burial rituals led them to build great burial mounds such as the Serpent Mound in Ohio. The Eastern Woodlanders believed that tobacco was sacred, and that smoking it was a form of prayer. It is interesting that, although the tobacco originated in the South and was brought North, the stone pipe originated in the North. These woodlanders were famous for their intricate beadwork and quillwork, which was regularly used to portray symbolic, spiritual scenes.

Politics make up a great part of American culture. In the present, there are two major political parties in the United States and those are the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. Most Americans are either Democrats or Republicans. The Democrats are known to be liberal and left-leaning. They believe that the government serves the society best when it has an expanded role. The Republicans are known to be conservative and right-leaning. They believe that the government should have a smaller role and minimal power. Out of all the presidents the United States has had, 15 have been part of the Democratic Party and 18 have been part of the Republican Party. Republicans and Democrats typically have opposing viewpoints on issues. There are also

In today’s world, the United States of America only accounts for about 5% of the total global population. Quite surprisingly, compared to the global population, the United States still accounts for over 23% of the world’s amount of incarcerated peoples, therefor giving the United States first place in the running for the largest amount of incarcerated people. The reasons the United States incarceration rates are so high is driven by the disproportionate incarceration of minorities. The chances of an African American being incarcerated are six times greater than a Caucasian person. If that number doesn’t seem that high to you, then take into account that for every ten Caucasians there are about sixty African Americans incarcerated. You can also look to the right to get an idea of the large difference as well. Historically speaking, the United States laws have demonstrated its discrimination towards African Americans within the criminal justice system, and can date back to the laws and practices against Africans American’s like slavery and Jim Crow Laws. This is not always the simple discrimination you think of when you think of a white officer pulling over two vehicles, one with a white guy and one with a black guy, for the same violations, and giving the white guy a warning and the black guy a ticket. The justice systems discrimination goes quite deeper than that. Many believe slavery is to blame for such discriminatory penal practices today, as “embedded racism in the

As an American, I live in the United States which is a melting pot in which different cultures have contributed to the development of ours. American culture as it stands influences the world as well.

The culture of America is marked by diversity and is constantly changing as a result of such diversity. The question posed is, “does the recent presidential election indicate a white, racist culture?” The culture of the U.S. has been, from its’ inception, white; our founding fathers were white. It has taken the U.S. hundreds of years with many conflicts along the way, to start to give value to other cultures. Looking back eight years ago to the election then; the approximate percentage of whites in the U.S. was 62.6% (Wikipedia, 2017) and Obama was elected to presidency in 2008 and again in 2012. The ratio of white Americans has not changed substantially and, if anything, has only decreased since then.” In 2012, the Census Bureau announced that

Loans of language are very common to see around the world, do many people learn foreign languages. One main factor is the use of technology that has the purpose of connecting people with another individual fast. During this process, people with different cultures reach a level at which they begin to mix. However, the use of the mass media has influenced in more teenagers to start to get interested in different cultures and also start to use the language loan in their social groups. In this study, we will focus in the Korean Culture and we have the purpose of identifying all those factors that influence Mexican teenagers to take Korean words instead of using our mother tongue.

This paper will be reviewing an American family experience in Russia. Clifford J. Levy became a foreign correspondent for The New York Times and brought his entire family with him to Moscow, Russia in 2006. He and Julie are parents of three children – Danya (fifth grade), Arden (third grade), and Emmett (kindergarten). This journal mostly focuses on their kids’ experience throughout the years and how they blended into Russian education system and its culture. The kids’ view of changing their environment and the language was really interesting aspects to bilingualism and bilingual kids.

The United States is made up of different cultural groups that often been Americanized, due to the cultural dominance. The dominant culture in a society is seen in a group of members that are the majority or has more power over other culture groups. American culture dominances is seen through their values. America is materialized culture; their culture is seen through the value American dream, style, food and political values. The diffusion of cultural dominance in America has been causing negative effect for other cultures. The dominant culture in America has been increasing and influencing other cultures ever since the 3rd agricultural revolution in the 19th century, it is seen through the way food is mainly process, the distribute and available to the people, and how food is mostly consume.

[A FOREWARD: The question was a bit vague, essay was written based on the assumption that ‘ex-slave’ indicates the answer is to address the immediate challenges, conditions, and beliefs of ex-slaves]