The Role Of Cultural Differences In American 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 author tried comparing cultures and saying how one specific would have a different meaning than the other. The author could have done better supporting his main idea with better textual evidence that did not come off as stereotypical. For example he tried comparing Hispanics, Chinese, and the Americans. One example from the text that came off as a bit stereotypical was when he made a comment about the Hispanic woman. Rodriguez said “Hispanic woman are hired to be at the center of the American family- to babysit and diaper, to cook and clean and to ease the dying” (261). Not all Hispanic woman come to America to work that way therefore the author was being a bit stereotypical.

Based on my experience in Eastern Europe and in North America, I fully embrace both Serbian and the different cultures that are in Canada. In the summer, I try to go to as many Serbian events as possible and at these events, there is traditional music, food and dancing which I enjoy so much. Unfortunately, I have not gone to many events of different cultures but I do like to educate myself about different customs and traditions in order to build on my awareness and knowledge of different types of cultures. I am Christian Orthodox in which I celebrate Christmas on January 7th and I always enjoy going to the church services for this Christmas celebration. Also, I fast where I do not eat dairy or meat products for a few weeks before Easter and

Some have certain ideas and others have totally extraordinary thoughts. Traditions and conventions of the United States encompass American culture. Religion, nourishment, what we wear, how we wear it, our dialect, marriage, music, what we accept is correct or wrong, how we sit at the table, how we welcome guests, how we carry on with friends and family, and a million different things surround culture. By course of their history, Americans define themselves by their common values and their belief in individual freedom. Various Americans trust that if a man will buckle down, then that individual will have the capacity to have a fruitful life. Most, if not all Americans compose progress toward the American Dream, the possibility that everybody lives better and wealthier with their own chance of

I was six year old when I was uprooted from my village in Punjab, India. I was anxious to see the promised land, as my parents had referred to it. My father left for America before I was born so he could obtain a labor job to save up money for when my mother, brother, and I would arrive. I never expected my beliefs and perspectives to change upon arrival. Growing up in a very uniform culture I had a black and white view of the world. In our culture women were responsible for being caretakers. Their job was simply to raise the children, cook, and be domesticated. The men had the role of the breadwinner and they were the ones encouraged to get an education.

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When I first arrived in the US, I inadvertently joined the newcomers’ subculture. I sought the company of others who had recently arrived with whom to share the experience and newness of America. In this subculture, isolation is common because of the lack of relatability to others, but the passage of time increases immersion and learning English bridges the gap between groups. Gradually towards the end of high school, I was socializing with a second subculture, native English speakers and established immigrants. By my late 20s, with a few exceptions, my friends and peers were college educated middle-class professionals. The ideas we discussed and the opinions we shared often were in stark contrast to the views of those earlier social groups. However, comparing the three different groups, I find higher degrees of similarities than differences.

1. I learned that culture heavily influences our attributions and how we perceive our culture may be viewed drastically different by another culture.

Since American society is based on lower, middle, and high classes, wealth is one of the major concerns. The United States is divided into a wide range of cultures. The majority of the cultures is made up of Caucasians and African Americans. “Whites alone made up 77.7 percent while blacks made up 13.2 percent of the population in 2013” (United States Census Bureau). Both of these races combined make up 90.9 percent of the United States population, and because of this, these two races will make up most of the workforce. With these two cultures being the majority of our society, why do they have such a wealth gap? The wealth gap is the most acute indictor of racial inequality. With the wealth gap persisting, there will be no post-racial

In the first semester of my junior year, I took a class entitled “Studies in Folklore.” Despite being an almost exclusively senior course, I took my chances and registered. By some strange stroke of luck, I arrived in the fall with this illustrious course on my schedule. While I might have only gone into this course with luck and a love for the humanities on my side, I received so much more. I learned that despite the disparities in cultures around the world, one aspect remains constant: the need for communication. Connecting with others takes a forefront in every culture, no matter the variance in location or principles.

No matter what the age, the gender, or the culture, communication is a large portion of each of our lives. Communication is an ingredient of everyday life and each culture plays a significant role in how one learns to interact with another by means of verbal and nonverbal communication. While shaking someone’s hand might be normal and a gesture of acceptance in American culture, this can be considered a sign of disrespect or even being rude in another. Communication between two people of different cultures can go unpleasantly if one does not gain the knowledge of what is acceptable and not acceptable in the others culture. Learning the do’s and don’ts of cultures different than our own can broaden our relationships and strengthen our ability to communicate amongst those who do not share the same beliefs. Let’s take into consideration the cultural differences of communication between the United States and India. By learning the

It rejects the idea that principles of justice must be publicly known and accepted. Instead, it is argued that systems for effective social cooperation are extremely complex, and that they often make high moral demands of citizens. For these reasons, citizens cannot be expected to understand, nor to willingly agree on principles of justice that govern such systems. The idea is that constraining what can comprise principles of justice in this manner might lead to injustices caused by misunderstandings of what morality requires, or by unwillingness to act in accordance with what it requires. In order to avoid social disorder, the parties in the original position should not concern themselves with choosing only those principles which comply with the publicity

STACEY: I’m Stacey Sparks, and I am talking with my sister-in-law, Angela Park. Angela was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1968 and immigrated to the United States when she was two years old. She and her family first lived in Detroit, Michigan. Angela, what were some of the major differences you felt between yourself and other kids when you started school?

the political order of society) in which there exists a “common good” and a norm of natural justice. The political order of society is regulated by norms that help people to enter into mutually beneficial relationships with other individuals. The point of these norms is not simply just for the improvement of society, but rather they are geared towards the betterment of every individual. Since people are “the centre... [and reason for] the political and social order [in society,]... [they should be treated as] an end and not [as] a means.” Because human beings live in societies, they have certain “common goods” (i.e. things that help them to flourish) that need to be pursued, as well as particular values that need to be defended. The idea of a “common good” is understood to have two levels: 1.) it “allow[s] a person to be... more human;” and 2.) it “assigns an end [(i.e. a point)] to the political order.” A common good is delineated by four particular values that are in direct relation to natural inclinations: freedom, truth, justice, and solidarity. As for the values that need to be defended in the social and political sphere, they cannot be merely “private, ideological or confessional [in] nature” because they affect all people.

“Ideology is a comprehensive set of normative beliefs, conscious and unconscious ideas, that an individual, group or society has. In social studies, a political ideology is a certain ethical set of ideals, principles, doctrine or symbols of a social movement, or a large group that explains how a society should work”.1 Political ideologies are concerned with many different aspects of society including the economy, education, health care, justice system and foreign policy.